Now youth Congress plans defamation case against Mangalore Mayor

Former nun's autobiography alleges that sexual abuse and homosexuality is very high in the Catholic Church in Kerala, India. The book comes in the wake of a spate of sex scandals, nun suicides, and murders that shook Kerala's clergy....

  Saudi Arabia is a country where women are not allowed to drive, in many cases, not allowed to work when they can come in contact with women, and not allowed out alone. And that country now gets its first ever female minister. She is Norah Al-Faiz, U.S educated former teacher and an expert in girl’s education.

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After some speculations about Mohammad Khatami’s candidacy, the former Iranian president has made the announcement that he will run against the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the upcoming June 12, 2009 elections.

So, in the red corner, we have Sri Rama Sene, Bajrang Dal, VHP, RSS and sundry politicians. In the Blue corner, we have middle and upper-middle class youth, software professionals, Archies and restaurants, Renuka Chowdhary, consumerism and puppy love. Who will win?

A lot of us have been a bit angry and emotional over what we saw as hooligans man-handling young girls, slapping and beating them at Mangalore's Pub Amnesia.  We saw the reaction of the media, the Indian government, the Karnataka government, and the various parties. We have had politicians supporting the ideas ...

A court in Shimoga, Karnataka has ordered fresh probing in the case of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's wife's Mytra devi's death. The court wants a detailed report from the Doddapet police by March 31, 2009. The Karnataka chief minister's wife passed away in October 2004 at their house when she ...

Exactly how popular is Australia as an immigration destination? Very, and especially so for Indians and a lot of Asia, according to some newly released statistics.