Noted Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen on Wednesday returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special Award to protest against what she described as intolerance and communalism in the society. ...
Over 6,800 chemist shops across Delhi and its adjoining areas were shut on Wednesday following the nationwide strike by the All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) to protest against the online sale of drugs. ...
In a measure of relief to the fertiliser industry, a cabinet panel on Wednesday approved a special banking arrangement for a loan of Rs.7,000 crore for payment of outstanding subsidy to fertiliser firms for 2014-15. ...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the state cabinet has decided to revise the minimum wage of construction workers in the capital. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri and the cancellation of Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali's concert in Mumbai were both "saddening and undesirable"....
The brutal killing of a man in Bisada village in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, not far from the Indian capital, on suspicion that he consumed beef after killing a cow was more than a murder. It was an attack on one of our most cherished values, protected by the constitution: secularism. It was an assault on the very tenets of Indianness, a value we profes...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" along with the silence of institutions like the Sahitya Akademi is permitting a new "degree of thuggish violence" in India, said celebrated author Salman Rushdie. ...
Amid the growing number of litterateurs giving up their literary awards over growing intolerance and attempts to muzzle freedom of speech and expression, eminent Punjabi writer Dalip Kaur Tiwana on Tuesday announced she will return the Padma Shri award conferred on her....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a statue of late former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Thursday to mark his 84th birth anniversary....
Six people were arrested here on Tuesday in a joint operation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with an ongoing probe into a forex case involving Bank of Baroda, ED officials said. ...
