'Go to any village, you'll find a Dalit 15 years and above wearing jeans.' 'Earlier, Dalits were not allowed to wear a dhoti till the ankles. Jeans does not have this kind of restrictions or design. It is universal. So Dalits have also entered a caste neutral clothing zone.' 'Wherever you see Dr Ambedkar's statue in this country or abroad, he is always wearing a suit and with that English comes naturally. The Dalits' veneration of Western dress is very intense,' Dalit thinker Chandrabhan Prasad tells Archana Masih/Rediff.com
'Karpoori Thakur must be remembered by people today who are tired of witnessing fractious politics where corruption, bigotry, hatred and violence seems to have become distressingly recurrent,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
'I hope the honourable PM and Mr Shah take steps to ensure that the NDA doesn't split.'
'A class antagonism of rich versus poor took the colouring of a communal confrontation,' says Sunil Sethi.
'He has attacked our enemies in their own backyard.'
'You won't find such an apathetic indecisive party in the world.'
A record 37 teams, including seven debutants from the northeast, participating in the Ranji Trophy beginning on Thursday pose a massive logistical challenge for a cricket board going through administrative chaos.
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Some members held placards of news reports about unemployment figures.
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A local court will hear a complaint filed against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and eight others, including four cabinet ministers on November 30 in connection with the stampede on Chhath festival that claimed 17 lives.
'The market won't wait for earnings to recover.'
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj formally inaugurated Nalanda University in Bihar on Friday. Inaugurating the university, Swaraj called it a historic occasion for her as well as the country.
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Bihar's former deputy chief minister and senior party leader Sushil Kumar Modi explains the party's poll strategy.
Of the 200 to 250 students who enroll in a graduate language course at Doon University annually, nearly all are assured placement in a range of companies like Amazon (France), AXA Insurance, Oracle and Capgemini.
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Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the SC that Shahabuddin is a 'class-A history-sheeter who cannot be reformed'.
In its sway over national politics now, the Modi-Shah BJP is what the Congress was under Indira Gandhi. Why would they indulge coalition partners, their greed and egos now, asks Shekhar Gupta.
'In difficult times as now, the call of the village is all that these migrants can hear,' observes Vijaya Pushkarna.
'Political elites need to feel that these are our children dying, that this is a crisis for us, a tragedy for our community, we must take immediate action to save the lives of our people.'
Adityanath also recommended that all other SBSP members holding the rank of minister of state be removed immediately.
The river has been flowing well above the danger mark and threatens to inundate settlements on the banks.
The politics of hate does not pay. The people are too sensible to fall for such a ruse, says Amulya Ganguli.
'If you are weak economically, you automatically lag behind in other aspects of life.'
A Delhi Police spokesperson said that nearly 500 personnel have tested positive for the deadly virus so far.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday lamented that a section of people start "chanting" 'Jungle Raj' after every incident of crime in the state and said the government has decided to set up a battalion for safeguarding banks and other such establishments.
'George Fernandes will always be remembered in history as the man who successfully called the railway strike.'
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Former Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat P K Jain was arrested on Thursday by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with alleged irregularities in utilisation of funds allocated under National Rural Health Mission scheme.
Addressing a rally in Karkardooma in east Delhi, Modi alleged that the AAP and the Congress were provoking people and misinforming them. They were keeping the Constitution and tricolour in the forefront, but the aim was to 'divert attention from the real conspiracy', Modi said ahead of the Delhi elections on February 8.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday expressed strong resentment to the proposal of giving underprivileged Muslims reservation under the Other Backward Classes category.
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'The Modi government must create conditions to integrate millions into the rural economy as many migrants are certainly not going to return to live an undignified life,' notes Ramesh Menon.
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It looks like Hindi, which faces political opposition at the front door, is entering Tamil Nadu through the kitchen, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Arun, 24, is from Kolkata. He's a bartender. Vidya, 8, studies in an English medium school. Her father is a chaiwala. Purvika, 9, has big, bright eyes. Her father works in a beer bar. All of them are united by one cause alone: To become actors and join the film industry.
Social and educational basis and not economic criteria should be the basis of reservation, which, he said, would improve the social condition of the OBCs.
Kumar accused Prasad of renouncing social justice agenda and making it a mere slogan for personal popularity.
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