Indian peacekeeper is UN Military Gender Advocate of the YearMajor Radhika Sen served in eastern DRC with the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, from March 2023 to April 2024 as the Commander of the En...
29 May, 2024, 07.32 AM IST
Children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi to accept Nobel Peace Prize on her behalfThe children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi are set to accept this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony Su...
11 Dec, 2023, 05.08 PM IST
Lizzo hit with more allegations; Former director of ‘Love, Lizzo’ calls singer ‘arrogant, self-centered and unkind’Lizzo, her production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc., and Shirlene Quigley, Lizzo's dance team captain, have been faced with a lawsui...
02 Aug, 2023, 11.53 PM IST
Indian organisation shares Alternative Nobel with three othersThe Swedish Right Livelihood Foundation, which awards the Right Livelihood Award known as the 'Alternative Nobel', said "in the face of the...
29 Sep, 2021, 01.07 PM IST
Mia Khalifa reacts to signs saying 'regained consciousness', says 'still standing with farmers'Khalifa had criticised the internet shutdown at protest sites.
05 Feb, 2021, 01.55 PM IST
Aparna Sen tweets 'salutations' to Deepika Padukone for JNU visit, hails it as an 'act of courage'Bengali actor Swastika Mukherjee also lauded Padukone on Twitter.
09 Jan, 2020, 02.37 PM IST
Syrian director of 'Last Men in Aleppo' denied visa for Oscars, Academy stands in 'solidarity' with filmmakerThe film has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the Oscars.
21 Feb, 2018, 06.12 PM IST
George Clooney presents maiden $1.1 mn Aurora Prize to Burundi woman who offered sanctuary to orphansMarguerite Barankitse saved thousands of lives and cared for orphans & refugees amid the Burundi civil war.
25 Apr, 2016, 01.21 PM IST
Irom Sharmila scholarship to JNUSU, Rohith VemulaThe 2016 Irom Sharmila Scholarship was jointly awarded to Rohit Vemula (posthumously) of the Ambedkar Studies Association, Hyderabad Centra...
14 Mar, 2016, 10.51 PM IST
Historians speak out against PM Narendra Modi's silence over 'highly vitiated atmosphere'A total of 53 historians including names like Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib and Mridula Mukherjee have in a joint statement released by Sahmat...
29 Oct, 2015, 03.29 PM IST
12 filmmakers decide to return national awards over "growing intolerance"The letter spoke out against the manner in which the I&B Ministry had appointed people "with a narrow vision" to head institutions.
29 Oct, 2015, 11.49 AM IST
Filmmakers return National Award in support of FTII studentsEminent filmmakers Dibakar Banerjee, Anand Patwardhan and eight others today returned their National Awards in solidarity with the protesti...
28 Oct, 2015, 09.03 PM IST
Will return award if Akademi doesn't make a clear stand: Anita DesaiHer comments came after at least 34 writers handed over their Sahitya Akademi awards in the aftermath of the killing M M Kalburgi.
21 Oct, 2015, 12.37 PM IST
- Another Gujarat-based writer Anil Joshi to return Sahitya Akademi award
The decision by Joshi comes a day after another writer here, Ganesh Devy, returned his Sahitya Akademi Award citing a similar reason.
12 Oct, 2015, 10.35 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
Perumal Murugan's Tamil novel 'Madhorubhagan' read at Kochi BiennaleEminent writers, filmmakers, musicians and political activists came together for showing their solidarity to Perumal Murugan's Tamil novel ...
17 Jan, 2015, 08.14 PM IST
Indian brothers get US award for combating anti-women violenceThree Indian brothers have been felicitated by US Vice President Joe Biden in recognition of their work to end violence against women throu...
03 Apr, 2013, 02.39 PM IST