Uproar over ‘doctored’ Kanhaiya tape
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Social media was in uproar on Friday amid claims that a video that first went viral showing JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and others shouting slogans seeking Kashmir’s “azadi” may…
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Jats in Haryana to get SBC status
New Delhi: Jats stage a demonstration to demand reservation in New Delhi, on May 11, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Gurgaon, Feb 19 (IANS) The Haryana government on Friday agreed to provide Special Backward Class (SBC) status…
Bengal starts acting workshops for sex workers
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The West Bengal government is conducting acting workshops for sex workers to help them get jobs in the entertainment industry, a minister said on Friday. Sixty sex workers and their children…
Free Kanhaiya, punish those who fabricated evidence: Left
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Six Left parties on Friday sought the release of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and punishment to those who they said fabricated “evidence” leading to his arrest for sedition. Kanhaiya…
Bassi says not upset over exclusion from CIC list
Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Delhi Police chief B.S. Bassi on Friday said that “it doesn’t matter” to him if he was not being considered for the…
Jadavpur will maintain its autonomy, tradition of debates: VC
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) Amid the pro-Afzal guru slogan controversy, Jadavpur University Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das called on West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi on Monday and later asserted the varsity will maintain its tradition of…
Jat stir: Army called in as violence escalates
Rohtak: Security beefup in Rohtak in the wake off Jats demonstration on Feb 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Chandigarh, Feb 19 (IANS) Authorities in Haryana called in the army in a few districts, including Rohtak, on…
Obama’s Cuba visit marked by controversy in US
US President Barack Obama. (File Photo: Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS) Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) Barack Obama will head to Cuba next month for the first visit by a US president to the Caribbean island nation in 88…
Apple’s Tim Cook would have been booked as anti-national in India
By L. Subramanyan Against the backdrop of what is happening in India in reference to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) episode, there is this massive debate in terms of who is a nationalist and who…
Omar cynical on decision to hoist tricolour at varsities
Srinagar, Feb 19 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Friday expressed cynicism on the human resource development ministry’s directive to hoist the national flag in all central universities in the country….
Trains stopped in Bihar over Kanhaiya’s release demand
Patna, Feb 19 (IANS) Nearly half a dozen trains were forcibly stopped in Bihar on Friday by hundreds of students, mostly activists of student bodies of left parties and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), demanding…
One killed, 10 injured as Jat stir turns violent in Haryana
Jats stage a demonstration to demand reservation (Photo: IANS) Rohtak (Haryana), Feb 19 (IANS) At least one person was killed and 10 injured in police firing on Jat protestors in Haryana’s Rohtak town on Friday…
Goa’s new coconut law to facilitate setting up of distillery: Digvijaya
New Delhi: Congress GS Digvijay Singh arrives at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Dec 21, 2015. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) Panaji, Feb 19 (IANS) A legislative change in Goa that takes away the tree status…
Lawyers hold protest march to counter JNU demonstrations
Jammu: Lawyers stage a demonstration against people raising anti-national slogans; in Jammu, on Feb 18, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Hundreds of lawyers marched from the Patiala House court complex to India…
Pakistan registers FIR against Pathankot air base attackers
Pathankot: Soilders inside the Pathankot Air Force base that was attacked by militants; on Jan 5, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Islamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) A Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Pakistan police on Friday registered a First-Information…
Calling JNU students anti-Indian a slur: Pakistani daily
Islamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) The reaction to the protests at the Jawaharlal Nehru University has shown the real face of today’s India, and it is “not the Shining India propaganda”, a Pakistani daily said Friday,…
India needs to resume talks with Pakistan: Daily
Islamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Indian officials really ought to be directing their energies to achieve an immediate resumption of the bilateral dialogue with Pakistan, an influential Pakistani daily said Friday, adding that New Delhi should…
Trump takes on Pope for suggesting he ‘is not Christian’
(Photo: IANS) Pope Francis leads a mass in the sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity in El Cobre, on the last day of his visit to Cuba, 22 September 2015. EFE/Orlando Barria Washington, Feb 19…
Internet services blocked in Haryana after clash
New Delhi: Jats stage a demonstration to demand reservation in New Delhi, on May 11, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Chandigarh, Feb 19 (IANS) With the Jat community agitation spreading in Haryana, state authorities have blocked internet…
Sharif, Modi likely to meet in Washington next month
Lahore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, at Lahore, Pakistan on Dec 25, 2015. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Islamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Shairf is likely…