Ram Niranjan, 49, still remembers how the silence of that August 2012 midnight was shattered by the staccato burst of AK-47 assault rifles, as dacoits of the Babli Kol gang arrived at his house in Doda Mafi, a back-of-the-beyond Dalit dominated village in Chitrakoot’s sparsely populated rocky terrain that borders the jungles in the Patha region, and began firing discriminately. …
NEW DELHI — Raj Sud, 94, has voted in almost every election held in independent India, bearing witness to the eventful journey of a diverse, and now the world’s most populous, democracy over the last 76 years. Niranjan Kapasi, 89 Dhiren Singh, 58, financial consultant talks to the Associated Press about the key issues in the national elections, in New …
Ahead of the 2024 general elections, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday revamped his cabinet, inducting 13 MLAs into the cabinet and appointing eight others as ministers of state. THE NEW CABINET The cabinet ministers included Jagannath Saraka ; Niranjan Pujari ; Ranendra Pratap Swain ; Pramila Mallick ; Usha Devi ; Prafulla Kumar Mallick ; and Pratap Keshari …
