The Allahabad high court Friday declared the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, "unconstitutional" and violative of the principle of secularism, and asked the state government to......
A curfew was imposed in Haldwani on Thursday after local residents set vehicles and a police station on fire and hurled stones, injuring more than 60 people, over the demolition of an 'illegally......
The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted an interim stay for two weeks on the Jalgaon district collector's order restraining people from praying at a mosque on a complaint by an outfit which......
It is necessary to have discipline in schools but not at the cost of freedom and dignity, Supreme Court judge Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia said on Thursday in his judgment on the Karnataka hijab ban......
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday said the violence during the Popular Front of India (PFI)-sponsored hartal in his state was 'pre-meditated' and assured strict action against the......
Noted economist B P R Vithal, who served as a member of the Tenth Finance Commission, died in Hyderabad on Friday. IMAGE: Economist BPR Vithal. Photograph: Courtesy, Vice President of......
The proliferation of schemes is a result of the competitive populism that underlies political rivalries in India, notes Nitin Desai. Many years ago there was a popular song from an American musical......
The Minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced several concessions for the students in the Railway Budget for 2009-10. According to the announcement, the free monthly season tickets......
With 11th Five Year plan giving special focus on education, government on Friday earmarked a whopping over Rs 38,702 crore (Rs 387.02 billion) to the sector in the Union Budget 2008-09, showing a......
Ajit Balakrishnan, chairman of the board of governors, Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, and founder and CEO, rediff.com, delievered the convocation speech at IIM-Calcutta on April 1,......
More than anything else, Pathaan is a silent and subtle statement of Shah Rukh Khan about his place, his commitment to cinema and, if one can say, his politics, observes Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.......
Patrick Swayze's co-stars and colleagues have paid high tribute to the star, who lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on Monday. Demi Moore, Swayze's co-star in hit film Ghost, posted two 'tweets'......