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The Union aviation ministry has written to all Indian airlines and airport operators, urging them to play “Indian music” on aeroplanes and in airports, noting that it is “seldom played.” The Ministry of Civil Aviation was allegedly acting on a request by the Indian Council of Cultural Research (ICCR). “Music played by most of the […]
This story has a spoiler in the last part. Look away if you haven’t watched the movie yet… In 2019, after a decade of theatrical releases, the Marvel Cinematic Universe reached new heights of box office success with the release of Avengers: Endgame, the second-highest-grossing film of all time. Earning just under $2.8 billion globally, it’s […]
Rightwing Hindutva groups’ attempts to enter a locality primarily populated by Muslims – against police instructions – as part of their ‘Shourya Yatra’ in Manawar tehsil of Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district developed into a clash with stone pelting from both sides recently. However, police have only arrested Muslims among those accused and inexplicably razed a […]
More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar‘s conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human rights group. Karenni Human Rights Group said they found the burnt bodies of internally displaced people, including elders, women and children killed by […]
The ‘Dharma Sansad’ organised at Haridwar in Uttarakhand on December 17-19 saw an assortment of leaders from the Hindutva ecosystem taking the stage to set a new benchmark for brazen hate speech in the country. “We have to make preparations,” said Swami Prabodhanand Giri, president of the Hindu Raksha Sena, a right-wing organisation based out […]
Akhilesh Yadav is drawing huge crowds at his rallies across the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Images of massive gatherings for the Samajwadi Vijay Rath Yatras flood the Samajwadi Party (SP)’s social media accounts even as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) events dominate the mainstream media space. However, the bigger question on everyone’s mind is whether these crowds […]
A couple of days ago, the selection panel at GB Pant Social Science Institute of Allahabad, found none of the 16 OBC candidates who had been called for interview suitable for the position of assistant professor. The position of associate professor for the OBC category was also left vacant for the same reason – ‘none […]
12-year-old Tooba holds a poster she made for the event on Thursday. It reads “celebrating two years of Shaheen Bagh”. The protest site which had become a symbol of dissent and resistance against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) continues to hold enormous significance, more than 18 months after the last protesters were moved out. In […]
Mamata Banerjee’s flight to go national has stalled before take off. The Trinamool Congress leader, flush with an impressive electoral victory over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal, saw herself as the only politician equipped to take on Narendra Modi in the 2024 elections. She set out to win friends and influence people […]
Jalandhar: “Saadi sameen saadi Maa hai, asi apni Maa nai chad sakde. Je morcha fateh na hunda, asi Pind mud ke nai auna si. Hun asi jit ke ja rahe haan (Our land is our mother; we cannot leave our mother. Had we not succeeded in this protest, we would have not gone back to our […]
Even as US President Joe Biden opened the Summit of Democracy by raising the alarm about backsliding in democratic institutions worldwide, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an intervention, said that countries should follow their constitutional principle and added that tech companies should help to preserve open societies. On Thursday, Biden inaugurated the first White House […]
India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu on December 8, was a controversial military officer who was forthright and blunt to a fault. Over nearly two years as CDS, the former Indian Army Chief ruffled many feathers within the upper military, official […]
The British national Christian James Michel, accused in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal and now into his third year as an undertrial prisoner, has threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike in Delhi’s Tihar jail from today, November 25, if charges of human rights violations are not brought against Indian Prime […]
Panaji: The number of days Debasis Shyamal, a fisherman from Digha in West Bengal, can take his boat to sea has declined over the last decade owing to cyclonic storms and other adverse weather conditions. “At least 40-50 days of the year go just like that when we don’t get to fish and this is […]
Indian sociologist and anthropologist Shalini Randeria has taken charge as the president and rector of the Central European University, Vienna, making her perhaps one of the only Indians to head a major university outside the country. She was elected to the position in June 2021 and her term was inaugurated on Monday (November 8). Before […]
Is it possible to put a number to how bad the hate speech problem has gotten in India in recent years? In 2019-2020, Facebook’s data scientists found that there were big spikes in the prevalence of inflammatory content in three languages — English, Hindi and Bengali — that coincided with the start of the CAA […]
Deepa P. Mohanan, a scholar belonging to the Dalit community, has alleged that she was discriminated against on the basis of her caste for the last 10 years. She will continue her hunger strike till he is expelled, she said. Kottayam: Kerala’s Mahatma Gandhi University has removed a senior professor from a research institute director’s post […]
The Tripura Police has booked 102 people under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for protesting, or even merely mentioning, the recent communal violence in the state’s northern districts on different social media platforms. This latest move reflects the trend of Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states attempting to criminalise protests. According to sources in the Tripura […]
On July 27, 2021, Mitesh Thakkar, a celebrated Vadodara-based doctor, was finally granted freedom from incarceration by the Gujarat high court. Thakkar, who has treated nearly 3,000 COVID patients during the pandemic, was detained by the police on the suspicion of the sale of one Remdesivir injection. After Thakkar spent 106 days in prison, the […]
On October 29, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee embarked on her Goa quest. On the next day, tennis legend Leander Paes joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) along with actor-turned-politician Nafisa Ali. National media extensively covered the new political development in the coastal state. But Friday’s developments are last minute fillers as the actual plan did […]
