The Shiv Sena on Tuesday patted its activists who blackened senior journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni's face for hosting a book launch of Pakistan's former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri but a party leader said the Sena-BJP alliance was unlikely to snap. ...
With eminent authors returning Sahitya Akademi awards to protest rising intolerance, union minister Bandaru Dattatreya said it was their individual right and intellectuals were free to act as per their wish in a democracy...
Public lynching over a slab of meat, cold blooded murders of writers, rationalists and a wave of crimes of intolerance has led well-known Indian writers and winners of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award, to innovatively script their dissent....
Joining the league of Sahitya Akademi awardees returning their awards in protest against growing intolerance in the country, Assam's litterateur and journalist Homen Borgohain has also decided to return the honour. ...
An 85-year-old woman has complained of being tortured with searing tongs and stripped after being branded as a witch in Rajasthan's Bihara village, over 260 km from here, police said. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday greeted the nation on the occasion of Navratri....
The Shiv Sena has shown its "utter intolerance and unadulterated hatred towards all things Pakistani" by blackening the face of veteran journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni over former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's book, a Pakistani daily said on Tuesday....
India on Monday announced projects worth $17.9 million in Palestine, as also a grant of $5 million, as President Pranab Mukherjee arrived here from Amman on a maiden visit of an Indian head of state to this troubled country....
President Pranab Mukherjee's three-day state visit to Israel from Tuesday, the first by an Indian president, marks an historic political milestone and reflects the continued strengthening of bilateral relations, Israel has said. ...
The Congress on Monday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly deciding to skip the Right to Information Day function, slated for October 16. ...
