Who Needs a Grill? Build a Hot-Box Solar Oven
. He “grills out” with a homemade solar oven, which heats up to 350 degrees. This solar oven gets hot enough to bake a killer batch of scones—and in the summer, it can whip up brownies in a brownout. ....
View ArticleNews: Punjab Policemen Beat A Girl Who Complained About Sexual Harassment
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . . . The Punjab Police suspended four constables for brutally assaulting of a 22-year-old woman and her father in Tarn Taran district in Punjab, India on Sunday, March 3, 2013....
View ArticleJustice K. Chandru “A People’s Judge” Retires
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Justice K. Chandru In India and elsewhere, when a High Court Judge retires, it is usual for all the judges of the High Court would to assemble a meeting in the Court of the...
View ArticleNews: The Re-Arrest of Bitihotra Mohanti, the Fugitive Rape Convict
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Earlier this week, the headquarters of the State Bank of Travancore (SBT) in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India, received an anonymous letter written in English stating that...
View ArticleNews: Main Delhi Gang Rapist Dead. Was It Suicide or Murder?
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . On Monday, March 11, 2013, Ram Singh the first of the accused in the December 16 Delhi gang rape was found dead in his cell in the high-security Tihar Jail situated about...
View ArticlePolitically Motivated Activists Bring Shame to Tamils of Tamilnadu
Here is the news that appeared in the Deccan Chronicle on March 17, 2013. . Lankan monk roughed up in Thanjavur temple . Student Monk from Sti Lanka roughed up at Brahadeeswarar temple in Thanjavur,...
View ArticleNews: India Shocked by Another Gang Rape. This Time a Swiss Tourist
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . On Friday, March 15, 2013, six men attacked a Swiss woman aged about 40 and her husband. The Swiss couple were on a three-month holiday in India. They had visited the temple...
View ArticleGood Old Terra Cotta Pots Still Make the Best RO System
. By Pramila Krishnan Tuesday, March 19, 2013 (Excerpt from “Alarm bell rings for ground water” – Deccan Chronicle) Botany Prof S. Saravana Babu of Chicka Naicker College, in Erode, and his team have...
View ArticleRights activists hit out at attacks on Sri Lankans
. By V.P. Raghu March 20, 2013 – Deccan Chronicle Chennai: The attacks by fringe groups on Sri Lankans arriving in Tamil Nadu, in the name of protests against human rights violations against island...
View ArticleASP Insults Rape Victim: “Who Will Rape Such an Old Woman?”
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . On Wednesday, March 20, 2013, a person assaulted and knocked unconscious a 35-year-old Dalit woman returning home from the field around 9:30 pm. This incident happened in...
View ArticleCricket: Pepsi IPL (IPL 2013; IPL 6) Tournament Schedule
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Cricket: Pepsi IPL (IPL 2013; IPL 6) Tournament Schedule . . Last season (Season 5) nine teams participated in this popular Cricket carnival. This season too, the number of...
View ArticleEvolution of India’s National Flag: Madam Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama’s “Flag of...
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Who designed the Indian flag? This is a perennial question. It is not proper to name any single person as the designer of the national flag of India. Though India’s...
View ArticleNuclear Radiation Impact Being Ignored?
. . . . . . By Dilnaz Boga . . On his recent visit to Mumbai, Nobel Laureate Dr John Byrne, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, said that every society has to make a basic...
View ArticleRe: Muslim Girls Want to Study – Delhi Government School Says “NO”
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . What is your say in this … A Muslim girl in a classroom.. (Photo: A.M. Faruqui / The Hindu)This photograph is for illustration only. ALL INDIA PARENTS ASSOCIATION Aggarwal...
View ArticleUttar Pradesh, India: Minor Rape Victim Put Behind Bars
. The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of media reports about detention of a 10-year-old rape victim by the police in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh recently. The apex court...
View ArticleKUDANKULAM N-PLANT IN DANGER? SUPPLIER HELD FOR SHODDY PARTS
. By Kumar Chellappan Posted on April 8, 2013 in the pioneer ZiO-Podolsk Engineering Plant manufactures steam generators for NPPs of the Russian design. Against the backdrop of the arrest of Sergei...
View ArticleIran: 2013 Sistan and Baluchestan Earthquake (Magnitude 7.5). Reverberations...
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Yesterday, April 16, 2013, at 15:14 p.m. IRDT (UTC+4:30), an earthquake struck the mountainous region between the cities of Khash and Saravan in Sistan and Baluchestan...
View Article16 Injured in Blast near BJP Office in Bangalore
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . The blast on Wednesday damaged two cars, a motorcycle and a van of the Karnataka State Reserve Police. (Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint) Yesterday, April 17, 2013, just a few weeks...
View Article‘Follow tradition or you would be thrown out, they warned me’
. Mirror in conversation with Lt Kabdaula’s wife, whose allegations of wife-swapping have rocked the Indian Navy’s boat By Gitanjali Chandrasekharan . Three complaints in three cities make you wonder...
View ArticleMP Minister Justifies Number of Rapes to Total Population: “Rape cases not...
. . . . . By Suchandana Gupta BHOPAL: At a time when the country has been outraged by the rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, a Madhya Pradesh minister has claimed that the number of rapes in...
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