A time has thus come when state encouragement for rural students led to empowerment of the socio-economically marginalised sections of the population. It included women. Today, with greater exposure and consequent enlightenment, it has gone beyond 'empowerment' to become 'entitlement', says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'Many are coming hungry and thirsty.' 'Some told us they were stopped from filling water at roadside village handpumps because villagers told them 'tum Carona ho'.'
Normal life remained crippled due to curfew and the shutdown call by separatists groups.
Five Hindi-speaking bus passengers were killed and three others injured in a dastardly attack by suspected terrorists belonging to the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit faction) on the national highway in Kokrajhar district in western Assam late on Friday night.
The two-wheeler industry marked its first fall in 11 months in November with sales of 1.24 million reporting a fall of nearly six per cent compared to the same month last year
'When the trailer of Angrezi Medium came out, and when the credits were rolling in the end, with names like Irrfan Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepak Dobriyal, Dimple Kapadia... that's when it hit me and I couldn't control my tears. That was the first time I realised that I was living my dream.'
Srinagar like any other part of Kashmir is witnessing the longest spell of curfew since July 8 when unrest broke out in the Valley.
Stalin, along with senior leader K N Nehru began the fast at 9 am at Uzhavar Sandhai grounds.
The woman jumped on top of the SP leader's Mercedes, tore off the party flag on the car's bonnet and smashed the windshield.
For now, Edappadi K Palaniswami is in the saddle in Tamil Nadu, and firmly so. Both inside the party and the government, he has made OPS a yes-man, as the latter used to be under Jayalalithaa, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
New launches as well as upgrades to existing scooter models marked this year as manufacturers competed with each other to satiate the demand for new and interesting automatic scooters.
His rags-to-riches story would make a film. Meet Musthafa P C, the man behind ready-to-use breakfast foods that countless Indians trust.
A sacked Delhi police head constable, who was caught on camera hitting a woman with a brick, was on Saturday granted bail by a court in New Delhi which observed there was no evidence to substantiate the charge of bribe against him.
A head constable of Delhi Police on Monday hit a woman with a brick after an altercation following which he was arrested and dismissed from service as the incident triggered widespread outrage.
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz actress Bidita Bag gives us a ringside view of Bollywood.
National Demorcatic Alliance ministry's list of assets is fairly wide -- from land and property to vehicles and, for quite a few, guns. Nivedita Mookerji reports
How did a small-time businessman from Hyderabad come to mastermind the kidney racket?
Retracing the journey that brought coffee from Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh to an upscale caf in the aristocratic district of Le Marais in Paris.
The last time Tamil Nadu seriously voted on pre-poll promises was in faraway 1967.
'I still fight with my sister.' 'I still get scolded by my mom.' 'I still travel by autos sometimes.'
Rediff readers share their Cash Crisis experiences.
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