Centre rejects as 'baseless' Bhagwant Mann's criticism for excluding Punjab tableau from R-Day parade
31 Dec 2023 7:00 PM ISTChandigarh: The Centre on Sunday rejected as "baseless" Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's criticism of the BJP-led government for not including...
Mamata Banerjee sits overnight in 'dharna' against Centre, raises political temperature
30 March 2023 11:08 AM ISTWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the city,...
Mamata Banerjee starts two-day dharna to protest Centre's 'discrimination' against Bengal
29 March 2023 1:30 PM ISTWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday started her two-day sit-in demonstration in Kolkata to protest the BJP-led Union government's...
Not right to demand fairness just from one industry: Manoj Bajpayee
3 March 2023 11:13 PM ISTManoj Bajpayee called nepotism ‘a pointless debate in the Indian film industry’ adding that it has to do with ‘connections and relationships that one...
Ambedkar as a prophet
28 Jun 2012 10:41 PM ISTEver since I characterised Ambedkar as a prophet, in the context of the lampooning cartoon on him in the XI class NCERT text book, there has been an...
SC/ST aspirants slam DU
9 Jun 2012 1:59 PM ISTProspective students belonging to Scheduled Caste [SC] and Scheduled Tribes [ST] are facing problems while submitting admission forms at the Delhi...
Muslims want NYPD to end spying
8 Jun 2012 6:43 AM ISTA group of eight Muslims has filed a federal lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) demanding that it brings an end to its...
Once leaders could laugh
25 May 2012 5:50 AM ISTWhat is noteworthy about the cartoon row is that neither Jawaharlal Nehru nor B R Ambedkar found anything objectionable about it when it was published...
Whipping a dalit in a text book also
24 May 2012 5:45 PM ISTMany intellectuals of India are making the cartoon in a text book of NCERT an issue of pedagogy and teaching political science through cartoons as a...
Mirchpur dalits killings: HC rejects bail pleas
16 May 2012 1:25 PM ISTThe Delhi High Court denied bail to three persons, convicted along with 12 others in the 2010 Mirchpur Dalits killings case on Tuesday. A bench of...
Indians in US rally for Dharun Ravi
16 May 2012 7:31 AM ISTLess than a week before Dharun Ravi's sentencing on hate crime charges, hundreds of Indian- Americans participated in a rally in New Jersey protesting...
Uyghurs ‘face fight for existence’
15 May 2012 10:47 AM ISTExiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said Monday her people face a fight for their very existence against Chinese repression as a conference in Japan...
