Omar praises Centre for allocating funds to Jammu & Kashmir, complains about statehood | India News

[ad_1] SRINAGAR: J&K Omar Abdullah Saturday praised the Centre for being generous in allocating funds to J&K, but said the same magnanimity had not been shown in the matter of restoring statehood.Omar said he had no hesitation in acknowledging and thanking the Centre’s efforts where it had delivered. “I am not among those who practise…

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‘Kochi Biennale challenges the practice of putting certain artists on a pedestal’ | India News

[ad_1] The Kochi-Muziris Biennale has never been about polished spectacle. Instead of wine and cheese, there are fried banana fritters, a curator dressed in shorts, with some works unfinished and others still finding their rhythm. Neelam Raaj spoke to curator Nikhil Chopra on why he wanted to blur hierarchies and invite viewers to experience contemporary…

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9 years after NH-91 horror, UP court convicts 5 in mother-daughter gangrape, sentencing tomorrow | India News

[ad_1] MEERUT/BULANDSHAHR: Nine years after the horrific gang rape of a woman and her young daughter on a stretch of National Highway-91 in Uttar Pradesh as male members of the family, tied and assaulted by robbers, begged and cried for mercy, a special Pocso court in Bulandshahr convicted five men for the gruesome crime on…

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Ward boy refills child’s nebuliser with ‘spirit’ at UP hospital, sacked | India News

[ad_1] Representative file photo BAREILLY: A 30-year-old ward boy at Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial (LLRM) Medical College in Meerut was terminated after allegedly mistaking spirit for water while refilling the oxygen chamber of a nebuliser meant for a four-year-old boy. Other staff members noticed Singh’s negligence in time, preventing the spirit from reaching the child.College…

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