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IIT Delhi has recently been embroiled in a controversy over a conference on caste and race, prompting the institute to constitute a fact-finding committee. Image source: ANI Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has set up a fact-finding committee and sought explanations from faculty organisers after an academic conference on caste and race drew sustained criticism…
SHAHJAHANPUR: A young man and a woman jumped from the second floor of a pizza cafe in Shahjahanpur district on Saturday evening after they were allegedly accosted by members of a Hindu organisation, police sources told news agency PTI.According to PTI, both sustained serious injuries and were admitted to a private hospital, where they are…
NEW DELHI: In a rare decision aimed at facilitating the education of a minor girl, Supreme Court on Monday approved issuance of an SC certificate based on the ‘Adi Dravida’ caste of her mother, who is married to a non-SC person, even though it is yet to adjudicate a bunch of petitions challenging the norm…
NEW DELHI: A teenage girl in Maharashtra’s Nanded performed symbolic wedding rituals with the body of her murdered boyfriend, hours after her father and brothers were arrested for allegedly killing him over their inter-caste relationship.Police said 25-year-old Saksham Tate was attacked on Thursday evening in the Juna Ganj area after being called there by the…
BENGALURU: Chief minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar remain on standby for a formal call from Delhi, as the Congress high command prepares to resolve the tussle in Karnataka. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had announced a meeting and Siddaramaiah said he was ready to travel if summoned. Shivakumar echoed him, saying, “The CM and…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday made a striking claim in Bihar, alleging that country’s 10 per cent, referring to upper castes, “hold control over the Army.”Addressing a poll rally in Aurangabad’s Kutumba, Rahul said, “90 per cent of the people come from extremely backward, backward, Dalit, and Adivasi communities.”…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for Bihar’s two-phase assembly elections, with the final list of candidates now in place after the last day for withdrawal of nominations ended on Thursday.Voting in the second and last phase will take place on November 11 across 122 constituencies in 20 districts, while the first phase is scheduled…
NEW DELHI: As Bihar gears up for the assembly elections, the ruling National Democratic Alliance and the opposition Mahagathbandhan have cornered each other over issues such as development, migration, and unemployment. However, it all appears to have boiled down to the perennial theme of caste-based politics, with every party fine-tuning its manifesto and candidate list…
NEW DELHI: It has been more than three decades since former Bihar chief minister and a flag bearer of backward classes, Karpoori Thakur bowed out from the stage of Bihar politics. However, his disciples, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, still swear by Karpoori’s name on the issue of social justice.When…
Narayan Murthy, Sudha Murthy BENGALURU: Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty and her husband, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy, have declined to participate in the ongoing socio-economic and education survey being undertaken by Karnataka govt. Govt said it respected their “personal choice”, but made it clear that it was upset with the decision.Sudha Murty is…
