The death of Major Prasad Mahadik on December 30 last year in a fire incident in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh near the Indo-China border has instilled single-minded determination in his 30-year-old wife Gauri Mahadik to pay tribute to her husband. And she wants to do that by joining the Indian Army. Gauri, who lives in Bolinj, Virar, is a qualified Company Secretary (CS) and a lawyer. She has been […]

How hard can be the life of the poor people living in our country can be observed from an incident that happened to Jagdish Bheel. Jagdish Bheel, a tribal man belonging to the Bheel community, cremated his wife, who died after prolonged illness, using garbage, tyres and plastic bags. He was forced to do that as the crematorium didn’t allow him to cremate her because he was not able to […]

WARWICK, R.I. — A Rhode Island man is getting creative in his search to secure a kidney donor for his wife. Jim Small, of Warwick, is exhausting all avenues to find a donor to match his wife’s rare type O-negative blood. WJAR-TV reports ( http://bit.ly/1IF7nDO ) Small first started with a sign on the back of his pickup truck that read, “Type O Blood. Wife Needs Kidney. Please Donate,” along […]

Herat, Afghanistan (CNN) — As we stroll down a dusty back street in Herat, Afghanistan’s third-biggest city, a high gate made from sheets of rusted corrugated iron and a door that’s bolted shut confronts us. On the other side of this fortress-like barrier we can hear children’s voices and playful laughter. When we knock the voices fall silent and a young man comes to the gate. He asks for our names […]