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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has itself to blame for Supreme Court's crackdown — mostly because it has questioned if the apex court have any right to ask the BCCI to do anything at all.
Jammu & Kashmir's PDP-BJP government has turned Anupam Kher into a free speech martyr by turning him back from the Srinagar airport and refusing to allow him to visit the students at NIT.
Following his unceremonious ouster from this year's Indian Premier League, 54-year-old cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle, wrote an emotional post on Facebook where he said he was deeply touched by the outpouring of messages on social media in his support.
Journalist Barkha Dutt has spoken out about being sexually abused by an older family member while she was eight years old, and then again as an adult.
Five absconding members of the managing committee of the Puttingal Devi temple, where over 100 persons were killed in one of the worst temple tragedies in Kerala, surrendered on Tuesday morning.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) may rusticate its students Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who are out on bail after their arrest in February on charges of sedition.
Three days after the Shani Shinganapur temple in Maharashtra was forced to revoke a centuries-old ban on women entering its inner sanctum, the Supreme Court has questioned why the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple does not allow the entry of girls and women who are going through their menstrual cycles.
Two Indian students at a medical college in Ukraine were stabbed to death while another sustained injuries in the attack.
The world tiger population has increased for the first time in a century. The number of tigers in the latest count is 3,890 in April, which is an increase of almost 22 percent from 2010, when it was 3,200.
A Muslim woman teacher in Bihar has shown amazing commitment to her work as an instructor — she made sure she taught her class at a government school even on the days of her wedding this past weekend.
Even as the case against complete ban on liquor in Bihar comes up for hearing at the Patna high court, former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has come out in support of toddy, saying it wasn't liquor, but ‘health drink of the poor’.
He's everyone's favourite prime minister and he just won some more hearts. Canada's PM Justin Trudeau has released a special message to the Sikh community, just in time for Baisakhi.
The government must obey law on MGNREGA and make way for dignity, wages for poor, write Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey in Hindustan Times: "In a drought year, announcements were made enhancing the 100 days, with an additional 50 days of employment. No extra money was provided, and ironically, the notification itself has lapsed on March 31 just as the drought is peaking."
The NIT Srinagar controversy underlines need to handle sensitive issues with agility and an eye on the future, writes Syed Ata Hasnain in The Indian Express: "The events at NIT Srinagar are sickeningly familiar. Yet, we keep falling prey to these triggers designed to cause more dissension."
India should consider a presidential system like that of the US, writes Ashok Desai in The Telegraph: "Our Parliament hardly serves the purpose for which we elect it, namely to control and guide government policies towards what we want. Maybe we should try the presidential system."
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has itself to blame for Supreme Court's crackdown — mostly because it has questioned if the apex court have any right to ask the BCCI to do anything at all.
Jammu & Kashmir's PDP-BJP government has turned Anupam Kher into a free speech martyr by turning him back from the Srinagar airport and refusing to allow him to visit the students at NIT.
Following his unceremonious ouster from this year's Indian Premier League, 54-year-old cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle, wrote an emotional post on Facebook where he said he was deeply touched by the outpouring of messages on social media in his support.
Journalist Barkha Dutt has spoken out about being sexually abused by an older family member while she was eight years old, and then again as an adult.
Main News
Five absconding members of the managing committee of the Puttingal Devi temple, where over 100 persons were killed in one of the worst temple tragedies in Kerala, surrendered on Tuesday morning.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) may rusticate its students Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who are out on bail after their arrest in February on charges of sedition.
Three days after the Shani Shinganapur temple in Maharashtra was forced to revoke a centuries-old ban on women entering its inner sanctum, the Supreme Court has questioned why the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple does not allow the entry of girls and women who are going through their menstrual cycles.
Two Indian students at a medical college in Ukraine were stabbed to death while another sustained injuries in the attack.
The world tiger population has increased for the first time in a century. The number of tigers in the latest count is 3,890 in April, which is an increase of almost 22 percent from 2010, when it was 3,200.
Off The Front Page
A Muslim woman teacher in Bihar has shown amazing commitment to her work as an instructor — she made sure she taught her class at a government school even on the days of her wedding this past weekend.
Even as the case against complete ban on liquor in Bihar comes up for hearing at the Patna high court, former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi has come out in support of toddy, saying it wasn't liquor, but ‘health drink of the poor’.
He's everyone's favourite prime minister and he just won some more hearts. Canada's PM Justin Trudeau has released a special message to the Sikh community, just in time for Baisakhi.
Opinion
The government must obey law on MGNREGA and make way for dignity, wages for poor, write Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey in Hindustan Times: "In a drought year, announcements were made enhancing the 100 days, with an additional 50 days of employment. No extra money was provided, and ironically, the notification itself has lapsed on March 31 just as the drought is peaking."
The NIT Srinagar controversy underlines need to handle sensitive issues with agility and an eye on the future, writes Syed Ata Hasnain in The Indian Express: "The events at NIT Srinagar are sickeningly familiar. Yet, we keep falling prey to these triggers designed to cause more dissension."
India should consider a presidential system like that of the US, writes Ashok Desai in The Telegraph: "Our Parliament hardly serves the purpose for which we elect it, namely to control and guide government policies towards what we want. Maybe we should try the presidential system."
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