Six Congress MLAs who had joined Trinamool Congress in Tripura in May this year have been allowed by the Speaker to keep their membership of the 60-member House. Speaker Ramendra Debnath said "I have heard the views of the six MLAs led by former Leader of the Opposition Sudip Roy Burman, who joined TMC and …
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August 29, 2016In a one-of-its-kind event, hundreds of widows from Vrindavan and liberated manual scavenger women on Wednesday publicly tied Rakhi to 50 upper caste sages, Sanskrit scholars and priests at the century-old Gopinath temple in Vrindavan. Defying tradition, the women were in the temple town at the initiative of NGO Sulabh International. Around 100 widows, mostly …
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August 17, 2016