Indilens ! Live Daily News on India Insights of India Mumbai: Months after women activists led by Trupti Desai of Bhumata Brigade protested, the Shani Shingnapur temple trust on Friday decided to allow women to enter into the inner sanctum of the temple in Ahmednagar district. The Bombay High Court had last week directed Maharashtra government to take pro-active steps …
Read More »Jadavpur University students come to support JNU with pro-Afzal Guru slogans
KOLKATA: Slogans in favour of hanged Kashmiri Afzal Guru were raised in a rally by Jadavpur University students in Kolkata on Tuesday. These protesters organized the rally to express solidarity with students in Jawaharlal Nehru University who are protesting against the arrest of their leader Kanhaiya Kumar for alleged sedition. During …
Read More »Arunachal crisis: SC talks tough, asks Centre to give list of seized documents to ex-CM Nabam Tuki and others
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to provide the list of documents seized from offices of deposed Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and his cabinet colleagues after imposition of President’s Rule in the state, as the Attorney General said most papers, running into lakhs of …
Read More »3 girls’ suicide case: Madras HC allows detained students to attend funeral of Monisha
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Thursday allowed 24 students, detained by police, to attend the funeral of one of the three girl students, who committed suicide last week in Villupuram, upon furnishing their respective addresses and undertaking not to indulge in any form of protest. They shall peacefully attend …
Read More »Dalit scholar suicide: P Sainath slams Smriti Irani, says incident highlights much larger issues
New Delhi(PTI): Noted Indian journalist P Sainath has slammed the Modi government and HRD Minister Smriti Irani over the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula. Speaking at a protest against the administration of the Hyderabad University, Sainath put the matter in context. He slams the narrative that Rohith’s suicide was …
Read More »Mayawati says Centre anti-Dalit, PM Modi’s tears for Rohit Vemula fake
Lucknow: Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Thursday described the NDA regime at the Centre as being anti-Dalit, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emotional reaction to Rohita Vemula’s suicide as fake and politics driven. “Most of the ministers of the present Modi government …
Read More »Dalit Scholar’s Suicide: HCU in-charge VC faces ire, Delhi students join protest
NEW DELHI(ANI): Incharge Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad Central University (HCU) Vipin Srivastava faced the ire of agitating students when he reached their protest site to initiate a dialogue with them to break the impasse over Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide. Srivastava stood at the protest site for a few minutes even …
Read More »Dalit children burnt alive: CBI conducts lie detection on 11 accused
NEW DELHI: CBI has conducted polygraph tests on 11 accused in the killing of two Dalit children in Sunped, Haryana, in an alleged arson attack on October 25, 2015 and has not ruled out subjecting the father of the children to the same examination. FILE PHOTO: PTI CBI sources said …
Read More »Start ups and intolerance can’t go together, says Rahul Gandhi at Mumbai B-school
MUMBAI(PTI): As the Centre’s ambitious start-up mission got underway, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday trained his guns on the Narendra Modi government, saying there is a contradiction in pushing for start-ups and being “intolerant”. The Congress Vice President also said that the RSS has a very “rigid vision” for India and …
Read More »SC dismisses DCW plea against release of juvenile in Nirbhaya case
New Delhi(PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea by Delhi Commission for Women against the release of the juvenile convict in the brutal Nirbhaya gang-rape case, while observing that “we share your concern, but we cannot go beyond the law.” DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal comes out of Supreme …
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