Elias - Instablogs
Aug 13 2008
A compilation of writings of some of India best known authors like Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Vikram Seth, Shobhaa De and Sunil Ganguly - “AIDS sutra: Untold Stories from India” - was released here Wednesday to highlight the rarely heard stories...
Aug 2 2008
Expelled Shiv Sena MP Tukaram Renge-Patil Saturday allegedly brandished a revolver at party workers when they demanded his resignation from parliament for abstaining in the trust vote in the house July 22.
Jul 24 2008
A group of Shiv Sena activists, including three women, entered the Taj Mahal complex and prayed within the precincts Thursday. They were taken into custody and later released.
Jul 13 2008
Christian groups Sunday attacked the offices of Telugu daily ‘Sakshi’, owned by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s family, to protest the publication of a blasphemous picture of Jesus Christ.
Jun 22 2008
A man in a Chhattisgarh village smothered his pregnant wife to death in a fit of anger after she refused to have sex with him, the police said Sunday.
Jun 15 2008
‘Into your hands, O Lord, We humbly entrust our sister, In this life you embraced her with your tender love; Deliver her now from every evil, And bid her enter eternal rest.’
Jun 12 2008
Asia’s first — and the world’s second — human DNA bank has been set up at the Biotech Park in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow district, said an official Wednesday. “DNA Identification System (DIS) will be one of the most important functions of the...
Jun 2 2008
Members of the Gujjar community Monday took out out a symbolic funeral procession of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and “cremated” it in front of the district headquarters here.
Jun 2 2008
A young couple was assaulted with sticks and iron rods and then strangled to death by family members of the girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district Monday after they were caught together in a house.
May 25 2008
Like a recurring nightmare, the Gujjar violence that spread across Delhi and Rajasthan last year has come to haunt us. So far, at least 35 people have been killed as members of the Gujjar community went on the rampage demanding their inclusion in the...