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Data Breach: How will the biggest scandal that Facebook is mired in affect its credibility in India?As Facebook spends the next few months trying to convince its users that their data is safe, India will be crucial to their plans. India is...
25 Mar, 2018, 10.11 AM IST
Award wapsi boomerang: Sahitya Akademi says it will send back all awards returned to itThis was decided by the Akademi’s executive board which met on Thursday to announce annual awards for 2015 to litterateurs from across 23 I...
18 Dec, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Modi govt may amend Constitution after RS majority: Nayantara SahgalNoted writer Nayantara Sahgal, who returned her Sahitya Akademi award to protest "growing intolerance", a move which prompted many other pe...
30 Oct, 2015, 11.03 PM IST
Sahitya Akademi breaks its silence, passes resolution condemning killing of writersAkademi stressed the need to protect India’s plural culture but sidestepped demands from protesters for holding a condolence meet for Kalbu...
24 Oct, 2015, 01.56 AM IST
Two protests - one aginst rising intolerance, other against returning Sahitya Akademi awardsThe Joint Action group of Nationalist Minded Artists & Thinkers is in the forefront, mobilising litterateurs who disagree with the mode of ...
23 Oct, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Don't politicise Sahitya Akademi: Chairperson TiwariThe literary body's president said authors should "adopt a different way to protest" and not politicise the autonomous body.
07 Oct, 2015, 02.48 PM IST
Ashok Vajpeyi returns Sahitya Akademi award to protest the "assault on right to freedom of life and expression"Voicing displeasure over the Dadri lynching incident and and a string of killings of rationalists, he also questioned Prime Minister Narend...
07 Oct, 2015, 02.02 PM IST
Jawaharlal Nehru's niece Nayantara Sehgal returns Sahitya award, protests rising intoleranceSehgal today returned the Sahitya Akademi award in protest against increasing intolerance towards right to dissent in the country and Prime...
06 Oct, 2015, 06.56 PM IST
Jawaharlal Nehru's personal papers still a secret with Sonia GandhiWhat is being made available are only the official papers, his correspondence, speech and other material from 1947 till his death in May 19...
17 Nov, 2014, 10.08 AM IST