New Delhi: Another name has now came up in the race for the next President of India. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has said that the BJD and the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK will support NCP leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma. Patnaik's announcement follows his recent meeting with AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa in Chennai. The former Lok Sabha speaker had met Jayalalithaa two days ago. Jayalalithaa said, "Following a letter...
03:09 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The capital is set to receive a residential school for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SC), the Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Castes (OBC), the Delhi government announced on Monday. "The cabinet has decided to set up a residential school for the SC, ST, OBC and Muslim students in order to provide them adequate opportunities to excel in studies," Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said in...
10:10 PM, May 14, 2012
Narnaul: The government-run Industrial Training Institute in Narnaul, Haryana, found itself in the centre of a controversy on Saturday. The institute has allegedly created a separate wing for SC/STs, calling it "special privileges". The students, however, call it discriminatory. The institute was set up by the government with the aim of providing technical skill training to students of all categories. The institute has now built two buildings. While one of...
07:28 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: A first-year MBBS student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room on Saturday, after, claim his friends, facing severe discrimination at the institute. Anil Kumar Meena hailed from a village in Rajasthan. His friends are boycotting classes on Monday as a mark of protest. They claim he was struggling to cope with English...
11:27 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that anthropological, ethnic and other traits of a person should be considered along with other documentary evidence to determine a claimant's status as a member of the Scheduled Tribe for enjoying the benefits in education and employment. A bench of Justice D K Jain and Justice A K Ganguly said pre-independence documents should be given preference over post-independence documents as they have...
07:49 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: Emphasising his government's commitment to the welfare of women and children, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday underlined the need for improving the sex ratio in the country. "We have strived for reducing inequalities in the country. In the last seven years, we have taken special care of the needs of our brothers and sisters from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, minorities, women and children," Singh said...
11:11 AM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes has asked the Censor Board to defer the release of Prakash Jha's contentious film Aarakshan saying it will create communal disharmony. The NCSCST also said some dialogues and sequences in the movie are objectionable. The commission will be meeting later on Wednesday to decide on the fate of the film. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the commission is likely...
02:20 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Tamil Nadu government to submit a report within four weeks on the alleged thrashing of a Dalit boy for fetching water from a public tap. It has also asked the government what steps are being taken to prevent "such acts of discrimination against Dalits". The NHRC said it has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report alleging that the...
10:05 PM, Jun 17, 2011
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07:38 PM, May 29, 2008
New Delhi: Life for Gurkeerat Singh Mann has transformed sharply within just six months in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The 21-year-old middle-order batsman from Faridkot has come a long way, from a promising junior to an exciting key component in Kings XI Punjab, sharing the dressing room with the likes of Adam Gilchrist and David Hussey in the on-going IPL 5. Gurkeerat's moment of glory came when he smashed...
02:11 PM, May 26, 2008
New Delhi: Luke Pomersbach, the Australia batsman representing Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the IPL, has been detained in the capital on charges of molestation. Following reports that he allegedly misbehaved with a woman at an after-match party at a Delhi five-star hotel and then beat up her husband, Pomersbach was taken to Primus hospital for a medical examination. An official statement from the Delhi Police said, A US national,...
11:15 PM, May 24, 2008
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