Recently, a Buddhist monk was arrested from the Bodh Gaya for allegedly sexually assaulting young children in the shrine and now Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Sunday said that he has known about the sexual abuse by Buddhist teachers since 1990s. He said that these allegations are “nothing new”. The Tibetan spiritual leader, revered …
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Seventy-six villages in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have been completely submerged in water after heavy rains led to the Ranganadi dam being opened. Lives of thousands of people have been affected. On Thursday, due to the overflow of water, the NEEPCO authorities were compelled to open the three gates of the Ranganadi dam. The release of dam water has submerged …
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A silent revolution to empower women has taken place in and around Mohopada, a tiny village in Raigad district, barely 60km from Mumbai, thanks to the single-handed efforts of a retired teacher, 101-year-old Rameshwar Karve from Alibaug. Over the past 18-odd years, more than 150 non-Brahmin, semi-literate women have got Sanskrit degrees to become trained and certified priestesses. The first …
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A US Visa is often the first step towards fulfilling the ‘American Dream’ of millions across the world. But a new decision by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services may result in the dreams of many getting shattered for even small mistakes. BCCL They have now come out with a new policy under which it is free to reject a …
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Chandan Dongrekar, a 30-year-old cricketer, who has won laurels for Goa and represented the state eight times in Tennis Ball Cricket, now mould clay for a living. He has tried at least 20 times to get a government job, but all in vain. For several years, Chandan has been regularly applying to get a state government posting—his certificates of merits …
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Public Interest Litigation (PIL)s can often be misused and often become a pain for courts to deal with them. Rajendra Diwan was one such “public-spirited” litigant who went to court to control ‘harms’ caused by mobile phone usage. BCCL Diwan filed a PIL in the Madhya Pradesh High Court to highlight the potential ‘hazards’ of mobile phone usage, and to …
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The political storm kicked off by fugitive business tycoon Vijay Mallya has taken another turn after he claimed that no formal meeting between him and Arun Jaitley took place and that he “happened” to meet the Finance Minister in Parliament. Mallya issued the clarification after Jaitley in a statement said that he had not granted the tycoon any formal appointment …
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The canines will finally have a park of their own. Yes, India’s first dog park is set to be inaugurated in Hyderabad this week. Located at Gachibowli, at a place which was originally a garbage dumping ground, the facility which is spread over 1.3 acres have all the latest for your dogs. BCCL The park has been equipped with dog training …
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Ganga Devi was always a fighter. So when the Mirzapur district magistrate served a property attachment notice on her after a dispute in 1975, she protested vehemently. Then 37, she challenged the action before the civil judge and won the case two years later in 1977. Fate though had another, harder battle in store for her. During the course of …
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A cut in taxes on petrol and diesel is ruled out for now as neither the central government nor some states have the appetite to stomach revenue loss from such a move, a top government official said Monday. While a cut in excise duty that the central government levies will impact fiscal deficit, states like Bihar, Kerala, and Punjab are …
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