If Mohammed Akhlaq's lynching in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh last September further alienated the Muslims who were never very close to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) anyway, Rohith Vemula's suicide in Hyderabad has dealt a crippling blow to the party's recent attempts to woo the Dalits....
Shooting at a school in Canada's Saskatchewan province has left five people dead and two others seriously injured, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said....
Reiterating his claim that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in a plane crash in 1945, historian Leonard Gordon on Friday asserted that the declassification of central government files will not throw up any evidence to the contrary. ...
Legendary tabla player Shankar Ghosh died at a private health facility here on Friday after being critically-ill for over a month due to pneumonia, cardiac problems and old age complications, hospital sources said....
Sunanda Pushkar died of poisoning caused by anxiety drug Alprax, the final report by AIIMS medical board said....
The Congress on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks on the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula have “deeply disappointed†the country as he did not announce action against union ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya. ...
The Hyderabad University, rocked by student protests after the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, on Friday announced Rs.8 lakh as ex gratia assistance for the bereaved family....
Bharatnatyam exponent Mrinalini Sarabhai's daughter Mallika has criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not paying homage to her mother who died on Thursday, even as President Pranab Mukherjee said "her tireless efforts to spread Indian classical dance around the world will be always remembered"....
India will be the fastest growing big economy in the world in 2016, a United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016 report said on Friday....
By the late 20s Bose, alongwith Jawaharlal Nehru, had become a youth icon. So popular were they that even revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad and Jatin Das were inspired by them. ...
