Karnataka: Minister Somanna’s intervention averts another Janivara rowThe Railway Board averted a potential controversy by relaxing rules on religious symbols for recruitment exams after concerns arose in Karn...
28 Apr, 2025, 06.07 PM IST
Siddaramaiah breaks silence on sacred thread controversy, promises action as Brahmin protests continueKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has vowed strict action against those who forced Brahmin students to remove their sacred threads befo...
21 Apr, 2025, 05.57 PM IST
Sacred thread controversy: Congress minister offers free engineering seat as Brahmins pour out their angerA controversy has erupted in Karnataka after students were allegedly forced to remove their sacred threads before taking the CET exam. Brah...
20 Apr, 2025, 05.30 PM IST
Rekha Gupta ticks all the boxes for BJP Delhi CM postRekha Gupta has been selected as the BJP's choice for Delhi Chief Minister, addressing representation gaps and community outreach. She brin...
20 Feb, 2025, 02.54 PM IST
JNU to set up committee to look into incidents of 'anti-national' slogans on campusThe decision comes a day after pictures of slogans like "Indian-Occupied Kashmir", "Free Kashmir", and "Bhagwa Jalega" scribbled on the Sch...
02 Oct, 2023, 08.42 PM IST
Indian-Americans slam University of Pennsylvania professor for her disparaging comments against Asian-AmericansIn a recent interview to Fox News, Prof Amy Wax from the University of Pennsylvania alleged that "Blacks" and "non-Western" groups have "a ...
17 Apr, 2022, 02.13 PM IST
New book on RSS looks into its approach to caste and women's participationSunil Ambekar, who hails from Nagpur and has spent about 40 years in the RSS, tells ET that his book contains a futuristic vision of what t...
13 Sep, 2019, 08.36 PM IST
These men and women will run India for the next 5 yearsThe 58 shades of Team Modi are unveiled in a US-style inauguration.
31 May, 2019, 09.53 AM IST
Uttara Kannada: Weak oppn may boost Anant Kumar Hegde's chancesThe BJP has renominated Hegde, 50, for the seventh time while the Janata Dal (S) has fielded Anand Asnotikar (38), a former minister.
23 Apr, 2019, 11.34 AM IST
BJP candidate facing strong anti-incumbency in Aligarh; residents say unhappy over AMU rowThe BJP candidate appears to be banking on a division of the Muslim vote while the two opposition candidates are hoping for its consolidati...
17 Apr, 2019, 03.46 PM IST
Defeat in victory: Humble Prem Kumar Dhumal, common man's leader, losesDhumal was defeated from Sujanpur constituency even though his party came close to securing a two-thirds majority in the Himachal Pradesh A...
18 Dec, 2017, 06.58 PM IST
Under PM Narendra Modi, India has become 'lab of communalism': Kanhaiya Kumar"Police are telling lies saying that what happened in the morning was a quarrel over seats. Quarrel over seats take place in Mumbai local t...
24 Apr, 2016, 09.15 PM IST
Don't need mother like her: JNU students on Smriti IraniOn Friday, JNUSU described Irani's speech as a "shocking bid to mislead Parliament about ministerial muscle-flexing and crackdown on studen...
27 Feb, 2016, 11.07 AM IST
Why the Dadri beef episode is a challenge to India's pluralismPeople have commented on the prime minister’s silence. I believe that a studied silence is better than a knee-jerk statement that could add...
11 Oct, 2015, 11.09 AM IST
Sanskrit, taught well, can be as rewarding as economicsA proper teaching of Sanskrit can help foster self-assuredness and humanity, in the way that reading Latin and Greek did for generations of...
14 Dec, 2014, 01.23 PM IST
Ghulam Nabi Azad made Leader of Congress in Rajya Sabha, set to become Leader of OppositionAnand Sharma, another minister in UPA-II, was made Deputy Leader of the party, Congress General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi said.
08 Jun, 2014, 08.50 PM IST
- Akhilesh Yadav's cabinet, but Mulayam Singh's men
Akhilesh Yadav formally took over the reins of UP on Thursday when he was sworn in CM along with a team of 47 ministers, most of them old M...
16 Mar, 2012, 05.22 AM IST