Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians removed from school textbooks as they depict politicians in a poor light. ...
11:58 PM, May 14, 2012
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11:52 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said that freedom of expression is "contextual". His statement came even as members in the Lok Sabha once again united in criticising cartoons in NCERT textbooks, stating that these allegedly denigrated political leaders, especially the ones on BR Ambedkar. Sibal promised the Lok Sabha that all objectionable material would be removed and the role of advisors of NCERT (National...
07:30 PM, May 14, 2012
A Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT that there should be no political satire in school textbooks. ...
03:42 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Not just BR Ambedkar, there should be no political satire in school textbooks, that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. Sources told CNN-IBN that at a meeting on May 8, the Parliamentary Forum on Children strongly objected to cartoons in Political Science textbooks of Class IX, X, XI and XII. Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians...
01:06 PM, May 13, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has now issued a fatwa to her party workers against socialising with Left cadre. The Trinamool Congress issued a list of do's and don'ts for its workers including diktats like - don't take CPM members into the party, don't be friends with or make family relations with CPM workers. The poster also says that Mamata's party workers shouldn't even...
06:36 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Basirhat: In a combative mood after a string of bad publicity on handling different issues, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said no amount of negative publicity would deter her from her goal of bringing development for the people. "No one can deter Mamata Banerjee in serving you. I will prove to those who are out to tarnish our government through a campaign of lies, wrong. No amount...
09:16 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Kolkata: Stung by criticism of her government's choice of newspapers for state and state-aided libraries and a professor's arrest over circulation of a cartoon showing her in poor light, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged a section of the media saw only negatively about her government. She said the media appeared to paint a negative picture of her government's performance and claimed her government scored "a hundred...
10:12 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Perturbed over the arrest of an eminent scientist who opposed eviction of slum dwellers in Kolkata, a group of scientists has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decrying West Bengal government's action and sought his immediate intervention. A number of scientists from across the country and some parts of the world have written to Singh voicing concern on the "crack down on human rights activists and...
06:36 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Dinesh Trivedi said cartoons were integral to a democracy and leaders shouldn't be perturbed by them. ...
08:39 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Kutch: Reacting to the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor in Kolkata for posting a cartoon of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the internet, former Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday said cartoons are integral to democracy. Trivedi, who had to quit the Union Cabinet after he fell foul of Banerjee for increasing train fare in rail budget and ad to eventually resign on her directive, said, "I feel cartoons...
10:22 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Kolkata: Finally an attempt at damage control by the West Bengal government in an anti-Mamata Banerjee cartoon row. Four alleged Trinamool Congress workers were arrested on Saturday for assaulting Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra who was on Friday arrested for allegedly spreading 'anti-Mamata Banerjee' cartoons on the Internet. But unlike the professor who spent a night behind bars, the accused were let off on bail almost immediately. Mahapatra, a teacher...
09:34 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Kolkata: It was a cartoon on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that earned Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and his neighbour Subrata Sengupta, the West Bengal government's ire. The two are now out on bail, after being arrested for sharing the satirical cartoon with others through the university e-mail system. Mahapatra alleges that he was roughed up by Trinamool Congress workers and forced to write an apology, confessing to being a...
07:31 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Sports and Transports Minister Madan Mitra on Friday defended the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor and his neighbour for allegedly spreading "anti-Mamata Banerjee" cartoons on the Internet. "Those who call themselves professors, if they do such ugly things, will never be forgiven. People of Bengal will give a fitting reply," said Mitra. Ambikesh Mahapatra, a teacher with the Chemistry Department of the University, and his neighbour,...
04:36 PM, Apr 13, 2012
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