Super star Mahesh Babu has joined Farhan Akhtar's MARD campaign (Men Against Rape and Discrimination).
The MARD campaign was started recently by Farhan Akthar, to spread awareness about gender inequality and against the atrocities on women.
Veteran lyricist Javed Akthar, father of Farhan Akhtar, has penned down a poem to promote the campaign and it is being translated into different languages.
The Southern superstar Mahesh Babu has come forward to contribute to this campaign by lending his voice to a poem penned by Javed Akhtar. ...
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02:34 PM, May 06, 2013
The University of Oxford has been forced to review its post-graduate admissions policy after it was accused by a student of discriminating against the poor. Damien Shannon, 26, had sued St Hugh's College at the world-renowned university, for "selecting students on the basis of wealth and excluding those not in possession of it". "St Hugh's College and Damien Shannon are pleased to announce that they have resolved the dispute between...
07:38 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Webb wanted to meet players from England's Premier League to discuss their experiences of racism in an attempt to forge new strategies to deal with the problem. ...
07:37 PM, Mar 02, 2013
In a startling case of discrimination, students of a government school in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district have been opposing the government's mid-day meal scheme. The reason being that the utensils are cleaned by a Dalit woman. ...
07:38 AM, Feb 06, 2013
The birth of a girl, so goes a popular Hindu saying, is akin to the arrival of Lakshmi - the four-armed goddess of wealth, often depicted holding lotus flowers and an overflowing pot of gold. ...
12:22 AM, Dec 30, 2012
Sydney: Pregnant women and mothers face discrimination, negative comments and dead ends in their career in many workplaces in Australia, a study has found. A survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics of 357,500 working women with a child under two found that 19 per cent faced discrimination in the workplace and 29 per cent left the workforce permanently while pregnant or after having their child, according to the adelaidenow...
05:44 PM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Monday sought to downplay his controversial remark at a function in Bhopal whereby he compared Swami Vivekananda and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, claiming that their IQ levels were almost the same. While Gadkari went on to add that Swami Vivekananda had put his IQ to good use and Dawood caused much harm, his detractors still saw malice in his statement and...
12:04 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari may have meant well but his remark is bound to raise a few eyebrows. At a meet, while trying to explain that gender discrimination is unfair and that people should be judged only on the basis of their qualities, Gadkari made an unlikely comparison between Swami Vivekananda and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Gadkari said, "As per psychology, if we compare the...
07:16 AM, Nov 05, 2012
Colourful turbans crowded around California Governor Jerry Brown as he signed two historic bills designed to battle workplace discrimination against Sikhs and Muslims in the state. Brown signed the Workplace Religious Freedom Act, Assembly Bill 1964 which ensures that employees receive equal protection under law, protecting workers who wear turbans, hijabs and yarmulkes, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported. In California, employers faced over 500 cases of religious discrimination in 2011,...
01:58 PM, Sep 10, 2012
The decision comes in the wake of the firing at a Wisconsin gurudwara (Sikh temple of worship) that left seven Sikhs dead. ...
08:19 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Mumbai: Even as thousands of people from the Northeast continued to flee Karnataka, there were similar concerns in Maharashtra as well. At Mumbai's Kurla Terminus, hundreds of people from the Northeast were seen heading home, despite Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's assurances that full security will be provided to them. Meanwhile, the state Home Minister RR Patil is expected to meet Pune police officials to discuss security arrangements there. Panic hit...
08:12 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Mangalore: Victims of Saturday's homestay attack seem to be feeling the after-effects of the incident. A management college in Mangalore merely gave a verbal communication to a victim of the homestay attack that she will be barred from the internal third semester examinations slated to begin on Wednesday. Attempts by Express to get a response from the college on why she was barred from the exams, were unsuccessful. Another student...
12:41 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Hyderabad: When I spoke to my parents about my sexual orientation, they almost disowned me. They never accepted my relationship with my partner, shares Smruthi Narayan. Her partner Shwetha Pai points out, Its not a disease or a mutation and is not even limited to one community or country. The fact that such people can be born anywhere is something that people fail to understand. Everybody plays the blame game....
01:32 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Bangalore: Electrical serviceman Peter Murali was thrilled when he realised his son Xavier could go to a good private school when the Right to Education (RTE) became law. But the cold shoulder he got from school officials made him rethink. After all, it was a school his son had to be in for ten years. A week after the admission, Peter opted out. He says, "We thought of his future......
03:24 PM, Jul 20, 2012
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has sought a probe and an Action Taken Report from the state govt within 7 days. ...
04:20 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Mumbai: Admission season is admittedly a stressful time for all parents, but for Lt Colonel (retd) S K Tewari and his wife, the ordeal has stretched to painful proportions. For months now, the former army man and his wife have been going from one school to another, pleading with authorities to admit their nine-year-old son Abhinav. Each school has gently but firmly turned him away. Abhinav suffers from Attention Deficit...
01:28 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka Primary & Secondary Education Secretary G Kumar Naik says he hasn't received any complaint on any school chopping of the hair of children admitted under the Right to Education (RTE) Act and will act once he receives it. "The incident has just come to government's notice. We have asked for a report on this from the zonal officers and it'll come by this (Wednesday) evening. We will take...
01:15 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Bangalore: The Oxford English School in Laggere in Bangalore branded students from the economically weaker sections because they were admitted under the 25 per cent quota under the Right to Education Act. The parents of four students at the unaided school in Bangalore have alleged that their children were branded by cutting of tufts of their hair, just because they had been admitted under the Right To Education quota. This...
01:00 PM, Jul 18, 2012
A 23-year-old Burundi national studying in Punjab is in coma after being brutally beaten in April this year. ...
03:23 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Madurai: Fighting the social stigma and isolation, they toiled to earn a living. They ignored illness to support their family, to raise their kids. But things took a shocking turn for 21 HIV positive women, who were working as sanitation workers in the Government Rajaji Hospital, were kicked out for reasons unknown. While government and social organisations are spending crores to campaign against discrimination of HIV positive patients, these hapless...
12:23 PM, Jul 06, 2012
