Month September 2017
Banaras Hindu University Vice-Chancellor GC Tripathi has been under fire for the recent unrest at BHU. A case of alleged molestation on September 21 and the university authorities’ insensitivity and alleged inaction triggered massive protests on campus. Tripathi has now claimed that the incident… Continue Reading →
Goa Foundation (GF) is the petitioner in the Goa mining scam. In that judgment, the SC ordered a cap on mining and the creation of the Goa Iron Ore Permanent Fund on grounds of intergenerational equity. Recently, after discussing intergenerational… Continue Reading →
Tarun Tejpal, former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine, is set to be slapped with nine charges, five of which were of rape including sections introduced following amendments to the IPC, on September 28. Tarun Tejpal outside at Goa high court on… Continue Reading →
Ashish Chauhan| TNN | AHMEDABAD: `E rudi eni lekhan ni shu vaat, ena rang roop chhe namna re, Ambedkar laine kalam ne haath betha kayda ghadva re'(O beautiful, what I say about his writing and his delicate looks. Ambedkar took pen in… Continue Reading →
The Commission through its petition wants permission from the court to allow them to visit Hadiya and then prepare a status report and submit it to the court. The Kerala State Women’s Commission on Sunday decided to approach the Supreme… Continue Reading →
Conceits of mofussil minds The demagogue’s spell is over Illustration: Sandeep Joshi Harish Khare A reader is unhappy with the Prime Minister’s remarks at the dedication of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on Sunday. The dismayed reader writes a letter to… Continue Reading →
TK ARUN Can’t India, a nation of 1,290 m people, absorb 40,000 hapless souls without losing its cultural moorings… The Rohingyas are a security threat, throw them out -this is the government’s official stand. They are… Continue Reading →
Photo courtsey: Twitter Human rights activist Harsh Mander RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha, during a TV debate on the clean chit given to the accused named by Pehlu Khan in his dying declaration, had accused Harsh Mander of being anti-Hindutva and… Continue Reading →
Peepli Live co-director acquitted: Delhi HC verdict proves rape culture is real The latest judgment shows utter disregard and disdain for a woman’s right to bodily integrity. LAVANYA SHANBHOGUE ARVIND On September 25, the Delhi High Court acquitted filmmaker Mahmood Farooqui in… Continue Reading →
An India Today investigation has found that the Karni Sena is not motivated by ‘Rajput pride’ but greed for money when it stages protests against films. Kumar Ashish | As filmmakers unveiled Shahid Kapoor‘s first look from Padmavati on Monday, an India… Continue Reading →