Girls from the desert villages in Rajasthan, which infamous for female foeticide and child marriages, are benefiting, thanks to residential education camps. From would be child brides, they are now looking at financial independence. ...
10:36 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf while speaking on the increase in militancy in Kashmir linked it to the pull-out of coalition forces from Afghanistan. In an interview to CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar, Musharraf said the pull out's consequences are going to spill over into Pakistan and India. ...
07:48 AM, Mar 15, 2013
A defamation case against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will be heard in a Delhi court on Monday regarding his remarks on "Hindu terror". On January 20, at the Congress' Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, Shinde had accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of running terror camps. ...
11:10 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday described as "irresponsible" Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remarks linking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to Hindu terrorism and asked him to initiate action if he has any information or documents suggesting such charges. "His statement (linking the BJP and the RSS to Hindu terrorism) is irresponsible and reflects his immaturity," Kumar said. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is likely to press charges against Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Home Secretary RK Singh for their comments linking the Sangh to terror strikes in the country. ...
11:20 AM, Jan 23, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit out at the UPA government for Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remark that the BJP and its ally, the RSS, were promoting Hindu terrorism through their training camps. The BJP demanded that UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demand an unconditional apology and also the resignation of Shinde. ...
04:04 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The BJP, the RSS and the Congress are yet again involved in a war of words, this time over Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remarks that the training camps run by them were promoting Hindu terrorism. At the last day of the Congress's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, Shinde took to stage and while talking about the security situation in the country, flayed the BJP and the RSS for what "promoting...
02:42 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad on Sunday backed Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's accusation that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were conducting terror training camps and promoting "Hindu terrorism" in the country. "He (Shinde) is the Union Home minister. Will he tell a lie?" Prasad asked while talking to reporters after being unanimously elected the party's president for the eighth time. ...
09:10 PM, Jan 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Government has slapped a notice of Rs five crore demand on trusts run by Ramdev in connection with alleged service tax evasion while organising their yoga camps. Claiming that shivirs (camps) undertaken by Patanjali Yoga Peeth and Divya Yoga Trust in Haridwar were commercial activity, the Revenue department has raised a demand of Rs 5.14 crore payable on fees collected from individuals for learning Yoga, officials said....
11:07 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Sairenkon: In April this year, ten boys were forcefully taken to militant training camps in Myanmar. The family members of three boys in this village are still living in fear. Mother of ex-child soldier said, "I am living in constant fear and think what will happen to my son in the future." The boys tell us that they were lured with the promise of money and cellphones. Although pressure from...
08:38 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Chirang: The Assam riots at the end of last month left nearly 80 people dead and lakhs homeless. The real challenge now lies in rehabilitating those who were displaced. And helping them are young doctors, who assist the men, women and children afflicted with diseases in the camps. While children remain afflicted with diarrohea and fever, women suffer from leucorrhoea. There is also an alarming spike in cases of malaria,...
08:33 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Jaipur: Four days of incessant rain in Rajasthan have left 33 people dead, while those rendered homeless are still suffering from neglect at relief camps. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is yet to tour the affected areas. He has other pressing preoccupations instead - the UPA Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi's upcoming visit to Barmer. Homeless and hopeless, Abdul Hamid, Jaipur resident, who can't walk on his feet is yet to overcome...
06:27 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Chirang: Tired, traumatised, malnourished and sick - the children of conflict in Assam's relief camps are living in constant fear. Five-year-old Phulmala is hopes to return to her village one day. She still has her house keys hung around her neck. She says she has been wearing the same frock for a month. "Our house is burnt. Our cattle is gone. We only get to eat rice and dal." The...
07:54 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Guwahati: Altogether 2,92,852 violence affected people are currently living in 228 relief camps in four trouble-torn districts of lower Assam, while 10,636 inmates having left the camps during the last 24 hours. In Kokrajhar, 10,300 inmates left the camps, while 336 people went home in Chirang though none did so in Dhubri district, an official release said in Guwahati on Tuesday. Among the total inmates in the relief camp, 61,439...
07:33 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: From sleeping on the pavements to makeshift relief camps to finally having a roof over their head, the journey for a few Hindu families from Pakistan to India has not been easy. Those who have managed to escape to India say they are too scared to return and want to stay here for good. For 80-year-old Bakhtavari, it's a new found sense of freedom forever since she came...
08:19 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Mumbai: LeT operative Sayed Ansari alias Abu Jundal has told interrogators that four Indians were working for the banned terror outfit in Pakistan in 2006 and the raids conducted by the Army and Federal Investigation Agency on terror camps in that country after the 26/11 strike were an "eyewash". "Elaborating the structure and functioning of the LeT in Pakistan, Jundal stated that in 2006 he had met four Indian nationals...
02:50 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Bongaigaon: Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gets set to visit Assam on Saturday, reports suggest more than 2 lakh refugees are now living in refugee camps. On Wednesday, a baby was born in the camp near Biathamari. However, the mother is yet to get baby food. Electricity remains a problem and shacks are the best alternative for a bed. Meanwhile, the people are just surviving on rice, dal and...
08:02 AM, Jul 28, 2012
Srinagar: Concerned over rising number of deaths of devotees en route the cave shrine of Amarnath this year, a team led by Jammu and Kashmir Health Minister Sham Lal Sharma visited pilgrim camps to review medical facilities provided to them. Sharma, accompanied by his deputy Javid Ahmad Dar and Chief Executive Officer of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) Navin K Choudhary, visited camps at Nunwan, Sheshnag, Panjtarni, Holy cave and...
12:02 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Colombo: The Indian High Commission in Colombo denied a report in a Sri Lankan newspaper on Monday that 'terrorists' were being trained at three secret camps in Tamil Nadu, describing it "entirely erroneous". The High Commission said in a statement that the report 'Tigers return from India on a destabilisation mission " SL intelligence' published in 'The Island' newspaper on Monday was "baseless". "The suggestion contained in the news item...
05:48 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday allocated Rs 25.62 crore for improving basic amenities in the Lankan Tamil refugee camps, giving scholarships to children of the refugees who are pursuing higher studies and for giving one-time grants of Rs 10,000 to the women's self help groups run by the refugees. The CM has already extended all welfare schemes being implemented for the people of the state to...
12:53 PM, Mar 25, 2012
