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New Delhi, Feb 18: Gurmehar Kaur, who became the focal point of a nationalism debate last year, says her answer to repeated questions about how she survived the vitriol and social media trial and from where she gathered the strength to move on is her new book. "Small Acts of Freedom" is the story of three generations of single women in a family who have faced the world on their own terms. It has...

Pune, Feb 15: A Pune-based woman's world came to an unexpected standstill when her son succumbed to cancer two years ago in Germany. But her joy knows no bounds now. She became a grandmother to twins born via surrogacy methods using her son's cryo-preserved semen. Doctors at Pune's Sahyadri Hospital performed the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure and fused Prathamesh Patil's semen, extracted...

Kasaragod, Feb 13: Sheelavathi, 45, an endosulfan victim at Perla near Badiadukka, died at her residence on Sunday. Daughter of the late Shankar Rai and Revathi from Padre locality, she had been bed-ridden for long. She had undergone treatment at various hospitals and was on the official list of the endosulfan victims.

The Cochin Customs has seized 1.5 kg of gold, valued at Rs. 47.35 lakh, from two passengers at the Cochin International Airport on Saturday. The gold was seized in two separate cases, said a press release from the Customs here. In the first case, 20 gold bars weighting 756 grams were seized from a passenger, a native of Kozhikode, who arrived from Jeddah by Air India flight AI-964. In the second...

New Delhi, Jan 29: President Ram Nath Kovind today exuded confidence that the law to ban instant triple talaq will soon become a law and Muslim women can live a life free of fear and with dignity. "Muslim women's honour was a victim of political upmanship. Now the country has the opportunity to free them from this situation," he said. "After framing the law for Triple Talaq, Muslim sisters and...

Kasaragod, Jan 25: Expressing concern at the delay in the arrest of those involved in the murder of three elderly women in the district, the CPI(M) has called for prompt police action to solve the cases. “It is imperative for the police to act in utmost vigil to resolve the crimes to dispel public apprehension and anxiety aired from various quarters and the law enforcing machinery is bound to...

Chamarajanagar, Jan 21: Former MLA and son of former governor B Rachaiah, A R Krishnamurthy, announced his decision to quit the BJP, here, on Saturday. Addressing a media conference, he said the party leaders in the district, have been neglecting him. "Even when there were rumours that I would join the Congress, neither the district in-charge secretaries nor the district BJP president contacted me...

Kanhangad, Jan 19: A man who was summoned by the Hosdurg police here in connection with strangulating a 65-year-old housewife and robbing her of 9.5 sovereigns of gold ornaments was found dead hanging here on Thursday. Kunhikkannan, 55, of Velaswaram who was running an eatery close to the residence of the woman, K. Janaki, was found dead on his residential premises, Kanhangad sub-inspector A...

The WhatsApp Business standalone app was announced by Facebook on Wednesday in an effort to make business communication with customers more streamlined for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) on the popular messaging platform. A part of its WhatsApp for Business initiative that was first officially announced back in September last year and tested with businesses like BookMyShow and MakeMyTrip in...

Kandhamal, Jan 14: Much like Bihar's 'mountain man' Dasrath Manjhi, Odisha's Jalandhar Nayak has become an inspiring name in the Kandhamal district for moving mountains single-handedly to construct an 8 km long road. Nayak worked for eight hours every day for two years to construct the road which connected his village Gumsahi with the main road in Phulbani town of Odisha's Kandhamal district...