The Malabar rebellion, also called Mappila revolt, continues to be a contested and polarising event nearly a hundred years after it took place. It has now grabbed the headlines after a film project on one of the rebel leaders, Variyankunnathu […]
Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) continues to celebrate its centenary year by getting its academic credentials recognised both at international and national levels. The prestigious university has now been placed sixth among Indian universities and 22nd in all Indian educational […]
India at the time of its independence made a provision to reserve around 22 per cent of the seats in education and government jobs. The lawmakers did this with an intention to uplift the socially marginalised class of the society […]
New Delhi :Despite a lethargic leadership geared towards complete eradication of this menace, several strides have been made to counter the spread of Manual Scavenging. This practice is dated to hundreds of years ago. An act that primarily entails people […]
Hyderabad, July 4 (IANS) Telangana police on Saturday booked controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma as per a court directive in connection with his proposed movie ”Murder” based on an alleged incident of honour killing. A case against Varma and producer […]
Chandigarh, Dalit organisations based in Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Sangrur and other districts staged protests against Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) legal head Gurpatwant Singh Pannu for his “anti-Dalit” action of burning a copy of the Constitution and insulting Dr BR […]
In a shocking incident, the staff of a private hospital in Aligarh allegedly beat to death a 44-year-old resident over non-payment of bills upto Rs. 4,000 on Thursday afternoon, various media reports cited. The victim, Sultan Khan, was a resident […]
9 people, mostly members of ‘Kattar Hindut Ekta’ WhatsApp group, were held for killing Muslims in Bhagirathi Vihar. “Tumhare bhai ne abhi 9 baje k karib b. vihar me 2 mulla mare hai…aur nale me fenke hai…apni team ke sath…tumhe […]
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to extend reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates in the all-India quota of medical and dental seats in colleges run by states and […]
By Perumal Murugan In 1991, when 25-year-old Perumal Murugan published his first novel, Eru Veyyil, he made a splash in Tamil literary circles. Although only 1,200-odd copies were printed in the first run (half of them were sent to libraries […]
