Kerala hartal: protest marches taken out to various district police headquarters
The Hindu Aikya Vedi and Sabarimala Karma Samithi called a dawn-to-dusk flash hartal across Kerala on Saturday to protest the arrest of Vedi president K.P. Sasikala in Pathanamthitta on Friday night. The two organisations were spearheading the protests against the Supreme Court verdict allowing women of all ages to visit the Ayyappa temple.
Madhya Pradesh elections 2018: BJP promises 10 lakh jobs a year
Providing 10 lakh jobs a year to youths and welfare of all sections of society are among the major promises made by the BJP in its manifesto for the November 28 in Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, which was released in Bhopal on Saturday.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday promised to waive farm loans in Chhattisgarh within 10 days of assuming power in the State and asserted that the money for it would come from the “likes of” Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Anil Ambani.
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has been inaugurated as the new President of the Maldives after the Opposition united to dislodge strongman Abdulla Yameen in the September elections. Mr. Solih, 54, emerged as common Opposition candidate as all key dissidents were either jailed or forced into exile by Mr. Yameen who took power following a controversial run-off in 2013.
I’ll wait till Nov. 30 for final decision on seat-sharing, says Upendra Kushwaha
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) president Upendra Kushwaha on Saturday said he would wait till November 30 for a final decision on seat-sharing. Mr. Kushwaha said he would not make any move from his side to approach any BJP leader to discuss the issue of seat-sharing, except Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Alyque Padamsee, ad and theatre titan, is dead
Veteran advertising and theatre personality Alyque Padamsee passed away in Mumbai on Saturday morning. His former partner, Dolly Thakore, with whom he has a son, confirmed the news to The Hindu . She said that Padamsee breathed his last at 5.30 a.m.
Ground Zero: 'Purchased' and abandoned in Haryana
Trafficked into Haryana in their teens, they were sexually exploited and physically abused all through their youth before being abandoned by their ‘husbands’ in their middle age. The Hindu reports on the plight of the hundreds of survivors of trafficking, some elderly, who, in the absence of any support from the local administration or civil society, have been left to fend for themselves
Julian Assange will fight charges: lawyer
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not willingly travel to the United States to face charges filed under seal against him, one of his lawyers said, foreshadowing a possible fight over extradition for a central figure in the U.S. special counsel’s Russia-Trump investigation.
The Hindu Explains: the emergence of antibiotic resistance in India
India is one of the highest antibiotic consuming countries in the world. Though antibiotics have helped treat many diseases and save lives, their overuse and misuse have created a new menace — antibiotic resistance.
11 million-year-old human ancestor fossil discovered in Kutch, Gujarat
Tireless fossil hunting under the scorching heat of the Kutch basin, Gujarat proved fruitful — palaeontologists have unearthed a fossilised upper jaw (maxilla). Further studies showed that the fossil find was highly significant: it is the oldest and the only known ape fossil discovered in peninsular India.
