18-year-old Bishu Limbu (right) with his mother Om Kumari Guwahati: In a village where evenings still fall without electricity and phone signals come only after a walk to the roadside, 18-year-old Bishu Limbu kept chasing a dream far bigger than his circumstances — to become a doctor.Bishu, from No. 2 Nakong Pathar village in Tinsukia…
Last Updated:July 07, 2026, 11:21 IST Ashneer Grover’s sarcastic reply to a demand that he donate his ₹900 crore wealth has gone viral, reigniting debate over Madhuri Jain Grover’s controversial remarks on poverty Ashneer Grover’s witty comeback to a user demanding he donate his reported ₹900 crore wealth has gone viral (Image-X/@Ashneer_grover) Ashneer Grover has…
Rourkela: In a heart-rending case of poverty, a daily wager from Sundargarh district has surrendered three of his children to the Sundargarh child welfare committee, expressing his inability to raise them.The siblings — two daughters aged 10 and 8, and a son aged 5 — have since been placed in a children’s home in Rourkela…
AI Image Used For Representational Purpose Only NEW DELHI: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered after being abducted from a pavement in south Delhi by a cab driver early Monday morning.The accused, Basu Kumar Singh (25), was shot and wounded by cops after he allegedly snatched a weapon in an escape attempt during…
Ahmedabad: The state govt may have tightened prohibition laws by prescribing longer jail terms for violators, but in this case it failed to secure even the minimum one-year sentence for a man in an inebriated condition who was found loitering on a public street.A resident of Kankaria was booked under Sections 66(1)B and 85(1)(3) of…
Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi Vadodara: By the glow of funeral pyres that never go out, young workers and men at Varanasi’s Manikarnika Ghat spend their childhood and youth performing one of Hinduism’s most sacred duties. An MSU study has now documented the human cost of this tradition, revealing a community grappling with poverty, illness, stigma…
Haveri: A survey conducted by Haveri zilla panchayat officials has found that 86,894 families in the district lack housing or land, as part of the state govt’s effort to identify people deprived of homes and sites due to poverty and other socio-economic factors. The govt had earlier issued ownership documents to millions of families who…
Ranchi: The state has 22.3% children under five years with acute malnutrition, classified as wasted, significantly above the national average of 19%, according to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6.The state reported a negligible change in the percentage of such children from NFHS-5 when the figure was 22. At the national level, the percentage…
After getting power supply in her house Arati Mondal with MLA Sourab Sikdar in her North Dumdum house Sanjib ChakrabortyKolkata: A house in the Globe Nursery area of Ward No. 15 under North Dum Dum Municipality, located barely 2.5 km from the airport, finally received an electricity connection after nearly five decades, thanks to the…
Chennai: Unable to arrange money for the funeral, a 65-year-old man stuffed his live-in partner’s body in a sack and abandoned it on the roadside near Pallavaram on Thursday.The incident came to light after residents noticed a sack lying on Mukkanni Amman Koil Street in Trisulam and alerted the Pallavaram police. Officers found the body…
