Mumbai, March 22 Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane will contest the prestigious Bandra East assembly bypoll, the party announced on Sunday. The party will not contest the Tasgaon-Kavthemahankal constituency in Sangli, held by former deputy chief minister R.R. Patil who died last month, state Congress chief Ashok Chavan announced following […]
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, March 14 While the rival fronts in the Kerala assembly have claimed ‘victory’ over what happened on Saturday on the floor of the house, the real looser has been democracy. If that was not enough, the Left opposition called a state- wide shut down on Saturday to protest against its legislators […]
Washington, March 11 Indian author Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children”, will teach and advise journalism students at New York University as Distinguished Writer in Residence. Rushdie will serve on the faculty of the University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for five years, Suketu Mehta, associate professor of Journalism […]
United Nations, March 10 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed British lawmaker Stephen O’Brien as the new UN humanitarian aid chief, a UN spokesperson said on Monday. He will succeed Valerie Amos and serve as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Xinhua reported citing […]
New Delhi, March 8 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said “our heads hang in shame when we hear of instances of crime against women” and that his government has initiated several steps to help women who face violence and abuse. In a statement on the International Women’s Day, the prime minister said he “salutes […]
New Delhi, March 8 Prime Minister Narendra Modi described Outlook founder editor Vinod Mehta, who died here on Sunday, as a “fine journalist and writer”. “Frank and direct in his opinions, Vinod Mehta will be remembered as a fine journalist and writer,” Modi said in a message. “Condolences to his family on his demise.”
When her parents asked her to wear a “burqa” (veil) while attending classes at the Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi, Rubina refused to comply with the demand. She was barred from going to the university and sat at home washing dishes. Barely 16, Safia, a brilliant Class 10 student, was on the warpath against her […]
New Delhi, March 7 From managing their family and children, fulfilling their ‘duties’ as a daughter, wife, daughter-in-law and more, to also setting up and running their own business – women across India are fighting stereotypes and challenging themselves to create their own individuality in a patriarchal society. Whether it’s via a fashion brand, a […]
New Delhi, March 7 For six years, Anna Marie Lope lived in constant fear and depression. Exhausted by continuous emotional, physical and sexual abuse, she twice attempted suicide, only to enrage her husband who would then doubly punish her for finding different ways to “escape” their marriage. The trouble was her family was in continuous […]
Gurgaon, March 7 Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is suffering from swine flu and has admitted to a private hospital here, a doctor said Saturday. Mulayam Singh was admitted at Medanta Medicity hospital in Sec-38, Gurgaon. A.K. Dubey, medical superintendent of the hospital, declined to comment. “I am not authorised to comment,” Dubey told […]