1. Nityananda’s ashram to be locked up

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    Swami Nityananda is in trouble once again. The Karnataka government has ordered locking up his ashram near Bangalore, following new allegations of sexual exploitation of women against him. Chief minister Sadananda Gowda himself confirmed that he had ordered that the ashram be locked. Stating there were too many demands for...
  2. Who do you hold a beef for?

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    Twitter, where `outrage’ is more often than not, the dominant emotion, yesterday degenerated into verbal diarrhoea of the worst kind. The issue at the centre of it all was the Hyderabad Beef Festival, organised by a group of Dalit students at the Narmada Research Scholars (Ambedkar) Hostel on Osmania University...
  3. Andhra Pradesh `unsafe’ for women

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    Andhra Pradesh is the most unsafe place among South Indian states for women, going by the data collated by the National Crime Records Bureau. The state has more than double the number of cases registered in 2008, 2009 and 2010 when compared to the other three states. In 2008, 1257...

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