Former Aligarh Muslim University student Sharjeel Usmani, accused of hurting religious sentiments with his comments at last week's Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune, will be arrested from whichever state he is in, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Wednesday.
Briton Hilary Mantel has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall. Mantel's book was picked from a shortlist which included books by authors like A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Adam Foulds and Sarah Waters.
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had said that well-meaning programmes meant for the poor did not reach them: the same is true of the NREGA, says Surjit Bhalla.
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Students along with eminent people from across the ideological spectrum flocked to the open air auditorium in JNU.
Investigative journalism will be the mainstay of the newspaper, Tehelka CEO Tarun Tejpal said.
The tribunal has been convened in various cities around the world during the last two years, including New York, London, Berlin, Rome, Brussels and Tokyo.
'After Father Stan Swamy's death one thing has become very clear, that if you fight for justice in India you will be called a Maoist by the State.'
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the operation of sedition law, and ruled that all pending cases, appeals and proceedings with respect to charges framed for sedition should be kept in abeyance.
In India, several shops opened very early in the morning to allow die-hard fans to get their copies.
Parrikar had compared the neigbouring country to "hell" and asserted that it should stop human rights violations in Balochistan.
Indian women have education, inspiration and perspiration -- but not enough employment, points out Mahesh Vyas.
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'Adivasis are a critical national treasure, so we need to protect them.' 'The fight for the tribals of Chhattisgarh needs people from all political parties. It cannot be about any single political group.'
"You have been extremely unfair to the accused, especially looking at his medical condition. If material witnesses have been examined, then there is no point in putting him in jail," the bench said to the police.
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About 3,500 jurists, academics, actors, artistes, writers and people from other walks of life called the registration of the FIR against The Wire's founding editor an attack on press freedom.
Bengaluru police had slapped sedition charges against Amnesty after an event it had organised on allegations of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.
As the top court reserved its verdict on the sentence to be awarded to Bhushan, Justice Arun Mishra, who presided over a three-judge bench, at the fag end of the nearly three hour-long hearing also asked why he cannot seek an apology and what was wrong in using this word.
Banerjee had on Saturday invited the agitators for closed-door talks, but the offer was turned down by them.
'Some reckon his bitterness results from wanting to stay relevant despite a waning career.'
Some unlikely celebrities are behind multiple campaigns to fight the fake news menace.
Varavara Rao reached home in Hyderabad on Thursday morning, while activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, were sent to Mumbai by road.
Zainub Priya Dala was hit in the face with a brick last week after she praised Rushdie's writing at a school in Durban, a city on the country's east coast.
A bland remake of the Tamil hit Mouna Guru, girl power is merely a USP device in Akira, says Sukanya Verma.
Nigam, posted a barrage of 24 tweets to say he is quitting Twitter.
'So you have a middle class, and an elite that have seceded into outer space and they look down and say, "What's our bauxite doing in their mountains?" and "What's our water doing in their rivers?" There's a sense of entitlement there.' Arundhati Roy captures minds with her thoughts on capitalism, Indian politics, war, and more in New York.
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