MVA partners using COVID-19 situation for their benefit; people have right to celebrate festivals: Raj ThackerayMNS chief also accused the government of "selectively" relaxing the COVID-19 rules for some people and referred to "Jan Ashirwad Yatras" of...
31 Aug, 2021, 04.38 PM IST
SC suggests govt put farm laws on hold till talks with protesting farmers, govt not fine with itThe apex court will step in only when the farmers respond to the court notice and till then the existing talks underway between the governm...
18 Dec, 2020, 08.44 AM IST
Centre's 'Index Monitoring Cell' to meet for plan to improve press freedom rankingThe committee, mostly of government officials and two journalists P Sainath and Rajat Sharma, was formed in May to "put in place a mechanis...
16 Jul, 2020, 09.14 AM IST
Gauri Lankesh murder: Bengaluru sees massive protestJournalist-activist P Sainath said, “This is the largest constructed machine of hate since Partition, with a thought-out, coherent strategy...
12 Sep, 2017, 11.27 PM IST
Massive rally condemns death of Gauri, points fingers at rightwing activistsMost speakers pointed to the ‘celebratory’ and ‘congratulatory’ messages post on social media by BJP and Sangh Parivar activists upon the d...
12 Sep, 2017, 10.31 PM IST
Govt going in wrong direction to check farmers' suicide: Supreme CourtSC said the issue of farmers' suicide was of "extreme importance" and paying compensation to the families of such victims "post-facto" was ...
03 Mar, 2017, 07.39 PM IST
Ritesh Jain’s what I read this week: Benz, Banjara & helicopter moneyHirabai Fakira Rathod, a Banjara Adivasi near Aurangabad was talked into buying a new vehicle in 2010 when many banks were on a ‘tractor lo...
23 Jul, 2016, 02.01 PM IST
Demand for special Parliament session on water, farm crisesManish Sisodia made the comments while delivering the inaugural talk as part of the Delhi Assembly Lecture Series on the topic 'Water and F...
27 Jun, 2016, 10.47 PM IST
YSRC MP's bail plea dismissed in Air India official assault caseMithun Reddy and Madhusudan Reddy were arrested by the AP police last Sunday. They are at present lodged in judicial custody till January 3...
21 Jan, 2016, 12.12 PM IST
Farmer suicides: CPI(M) wing to stage two-day sit-inRelatives of around 200 farmers who committed suicide are expected to take part in the protest to be held at Jantar Mantar on August 10 and...
07 Aug, 2015, 04.36 PM IST
Poke Me: Farmer suicides in the country is not just issue of debtFarmer suicides have fallen significantly over the last one decade, to less than 10% of all suicides. It remains, however, a politically em...
30 Jul, 2015, 06.04 PM IST
- Meltdown’s brighter side
A failure to contain corruption might relegate a potentially major turnaround in our infrastructure network to the status of temporary empl...
12 Dec, 2008, 02.22 AM IST
- Singh is in: Admen, filmstars, politicos cash in
Although it all started with Singh Is Kinng, the top-grosser at the box office this year, the image of a Sikh as a leading man is becoming ...
28 Sep, 2008, 02.39 AM IST
- 'Loan waiver not a solution to agrarian crisis'
Ramon Magsaysay Awardee and noted journalist P Sainath on Saturday said the Centre's loan waiver scheme was not a solution to the agrarian ...
12 Jul, 2008, 04.09 PM IST
- Banks get credit for shrinking loans to farmers
In the season of jumbo loan waivers for the farm sector, this is the dog-eared story of how the buck, literally, hardly got to the small ma...
15 Mar, 2008, 01.59 AM IST