CBI probe into activists' murders: Supreme Court says 1 agency can investigate if there's common threadA bench of Justices U U Lalit and Navin Sinha asked the CBI to inform it by January first week as to why it should not investigate all the ...
11 Dec, 2018, 01.28 PM IST
Same group behind killings of Narendra Dabholkar, M M Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh: OfficialThe same group of right-wing activists is behind the killings of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar, M M Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh...
16 Sep, 2018, 01.26 PM IST
Gang involved in Gauri Lankesh murder has wide network in at least 5 states: SIT officialPolice had uncovered the plot to kill Bhagwan recently and arrested four men, whose suspected role in the Lankesh murder case is also being...
15 Jun, 2018, 09.21 PM IST
JNU being 'slowly dismantled': Romila ThaparThe historian also said that history was facing a threat of "infusion of imaginary theories" which were being used to "ground valid knowled...
24 Mar, 2018, 08.18 PM IST
NIA can't probe murder of M M Kalburgi: Centre to Supreme CourtA bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was hearing the plea of Uma Devi Kalburgi, the widow of the slain scholar, seeking a SIT probe ...
23 Mar, 2018, 07.23 PM IST
M M Kalburgi death anniversary revives debate on intolerance and freedom of expressionAcademic Chaman Lal, formerly a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, said the march and the convention was addressing the fate of ...
30 Aug, 2016, 07.16 PM IST
38 writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards: HC toldThe Centre's response came in the backdrop of the court's desire to see the records showing the number of awardees who have returned their ...
25 Jul, 2016, 08.09 PM IST
CBI for 3rd opinion on weapon used in rationalists' murderBangalore FSL was of opinion that different weapons were used in murders, Kalina FSL in Mumbai opined that weapon used in all three cases w...
01 Feb, 2016, 04.31 PM IST
My protest against intolerance continues: Nayantara Sahgal"My protest and that of other writers continues against the continuing attacks on freedom of expression," Sahgal wrote to secretary of the ...
24 Jan, 2016, 02.54 PM IST
Congress doing 'hate politics' over Dalit student's suicide: BJPBJP claimed that opposition parties had picked up the issue to derail the Modi government's development agenda.
21 Jan, 2016, 07.13 PM IST
Kannada writer T K Dayanand refuses to accept state award, citing intoleranceT K Dayanand refused to accept the award announced for his work Ratrinakshatra by the Karnataka Sahitya Academy, citing atmosphere of intol...
08 Jan, 2016, 04.22 PM IST
Karnataka CM meets Rajnath SinghKarnataka Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah today called on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed with him various issues concerning ...
28 Oct, 2015, 11.42 PM IST
Writers from 150 countries stand in support of Indian authorsWriters from 150 countries have expressed solidarity with Indian authors and artistes who have returned their prestigious awards.
18 Oct, 2015, 02.04 PM IST
Kannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri returns Akademi awardKannada writer Prof Rahamat Tarikeri has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar M M Kalburgi.
13 Oct, 2015, 01.28 PM IST
Led by Nayantara Sahgal, Indian writers renounce awards; script dissent against intoleranceFormer head of the Lalit Kala Akademi Ashok Vajpayi returned his award, in Kashmir poet-writer Ghulam Nabi Khayal also followed suit.
13 Oct, 2015, 01.19 PM IST
Kannada researcher gets death threat from rightist Hindu groupsKS Bhagavan, received a death threat in the form of a chilling anonymous letter in English via the post at his house in Mysuru.
10 Sep, 2015, 12.51 AM IST
M M Kalburgi's murder: CID probe ordered by Karnataka governmentA CID probe was today announced by the Karnataka Chief Minister into the murder of progressive Kannada thinker and scholar M M Kalburgi.
31 Aug, 2015, 02.11 PM IST