DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 15 -- FIFTY-FIVE years after Tanzania enacted its marriage law, and a decade after Rebeca Gyumi took the government to court over provisions allowing girls to marry before the age ... Read More
Dar es Salaam, Aug. 15 -- WHEN the first trains rolled along the TAZARA Railway decades ago, they carried more than passengers and cargo. They carried a powerful symbol of friendship between Tanzania ... Read More
India, Aug. 15 -- A packed room at the Bombay Bar Association (BBA)'s meeting called to protest against the Emergency, tales of renowned criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani's 'ghoda-gaadi (horse carriage)'... Read More
India, Aug. 15 -- I ndra Mohan Pandey was 11 when he first saw Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister. The year was 1958, and children from across Delhi schools had been brought to the R... Read More
India, Aug. 15 -- I ndia has celebrated her independence amidst scenes unparalleled in her history. Those who thought that the sadness caused by the country's partition would damp the people's enthusi... Read More
India, Aug. 15 -- S oul stirring events, crowded into 24 hours, marked the celebration of Independence Day. Beginning with the swearing-in of the Governor-General and ministers at 9 am yesterday and e... Read More
India, Aug. 15 -- The Jama Masjid minarets rise into a cloudy August sky, a lone kite hovers near them, and tricolour flags sway in the damp monsoon breeze above an adjacent rooftop. It is a classic 1... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- The Delhi Police has digitally mapped and verified more than 20,000 houses, offices, hotels and guest houses in and around the Red Fort ahead of Independence Day, in one of its m... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Redesigning the Okhla barrage at Yamuna to reduce the turbulence triggering froth formation, stopping solid-waste dumping and untreated industrial discharge, shutting dhobi ghats... Read More
Gurugram, Aug. 15 -- Union housing and urban affairs minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday called for the horrors of the Partition to be preserved in history and included in the national curriculum, ... Read More