Barely hours before the launch of a book by former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, the main organiser and former journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni alleged he was abused and attacked with ink by suspected Shiv Sainiks here on Monday. ...
Leading curator and artist Jitish Kallat has unveiled his mammoth public sculpture 'Here After Here After Here' in this cultural centre in Lower Austria, making him the first contemporary Indian artist to have a permanent outdoor display internationally....
Global software major Infosys Ltd on Monday reported net profit of Rs.3,398 crore for second quarter (July-September) of this fiscal (2015-16), registering 9.8 percent growth year-on-year (YoY) and 12 percent sequentially. ...
Incidents like the lynching in Dadri, near the national capital last month, will actually damage the BJP and the NDA, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said, even as he gave a clean chit to the RSS vis-a-vis rising incidents of communal violence. ...
Long queues formed outside polling centres on Monday as ballotting took place in the first phase of Bihar's staggered assembly election in 49 constituencies, including some which are Maoist-affected....
Raising their voice against rising "intolerance" and "suppressing freedom of expression", four eminent Punjabi writers on Sunday announced that they were returning the Sahitya Akademi Awards conferred on them. ...
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Noted Kannada writer and scholar Aravind Malagatti resigned on Sunday from the governing council of Sahitya Akademi, protesting its silence over the recent killing of Kannada rationalist and thinker M.M. Kalburgi....
Describing Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan as a "true socialist reformer", Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said his ideals would "continue to inspire" all political activists of the country. ...
Just hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday compared Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to Nelson Mandela, Congress leader Amarinder Singh ridiculed the remark and termed it an "insult" to the legendary South African anti-apartheid icon....
