BANGALORE: Ushering in a multitude of international names, Namma Bengaluru has now emerged as the new development destination of the country.Apart from experiencing dramatic social and cultural changes with the expansion of information technology and other industries, the city has also undergone a huge change with respect to the cultural and social structure.Today, Bangalore has evolved from being a pensioners paradise to the Silicon Valley of India.Keeping in mind, the...
08:31 AM, Apr 26, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy over the proposed Annie Mascrene Square has taken a new turn with the memorial committee spearheading the project alleging that the row over the size of the roundabout was intended to prevent the installation of the statue of the national leader.The statue is being installed on an under-construction roundabout at Xanadu Junction at Vazhuthacaud.The Annie Mascrene Smaraka Samithi has protested against what it termed concerted attempts and...
10:57 AM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday criticsed BSP supremo Mayawati for her comments on statues and parks, saying all this is a political stunt by the former state chief minister. "Statues will not be removed. But all I want to ask that how have the dalits got benefited by these statues and parks? Instead of statues there should be schools, hospitals for women and children on...
12:26 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Lucknow: Within a month of the face-off in the electoral battle field, the two rivals in Uttar Pradesh prepare for another confrontation. On Dr Ambedkar's 121st birth anniversay, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati dared the newly formed Samajwadi Party-government not to touch parks and statues which came up during the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) regime. Mayawati said, "The ruling SP should take a lesson from the BSP government which...
09:59 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati, who had drawn flak from the Supreme Court for wasting taxpayers' money by building parks and installing her statues, on Saturday warned the ruling SP in Uttar Pradesh that any move to make changes in the memorials erected during her regime could create law and order problem. "The ruling SP should take a lesson from the BSP government which did not make any dent in the...
06:06 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Colombo: India has taken up with Sri Lanka the issue of vandalism of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the eastern town of Batticaloa and offered assistance in rebuilding it. The statue of Mahatma Gandhi along with those of Lord Baden Powell and two Tamil scholars had been found damaged on Thursday, prompting the Sri Lankan government to order an investigation. Diplomatic sources said the Indian High Commission here has...
02:39 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has ordered an investigation into an incident in which several statues, including that of Mahatma Gandhi, were vandalised. "It has been brought to the notice of the ministry that several important statues in the Batticaloa town (in eastern Sri Lanka) had been vandalised," Xinhua quoted the Sri Lankan foreign ministry as saying in a statement on Saturday. "The Inspector General of Police has been instructed...
08:10 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Lucknow: The expensive giant statues of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati and party symbol elephant in Uttar Pradesh will remain safe with Samajwadi Party's star campaigner Akhilesh Yadav saying on Tuesday that they would not be pulled down after the change of guard in the state. Yadav, who powered Samajwadi's campaign to help his father and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to regain power, had said in the midst...
04:19 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday started uncovering Chief Minister Mayawati's statues in Lucknow. The statues were covered on January 7 upon the Election Commission's orders, after several opposition parties raised a hue and cry about her statues being in the open in poll season. The parties alleged that the BSP would have an unfair advantage in the elections because of them. In Lucknow, nine statues of Mayawati...
10:01 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and those of her party's poll symbol, the elephant, will be back in public view from Sunday. The Election Commission has given the Uttar Pradesh administration the go-ahead to uncover the statues. The statues were draped on January 7 after opposition parties alleged the BSP would have an unfair advantage in the elections because of them. In Lucknow, nine statues of Mayawati...
06:12 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said that the party will go to High Court to contest the FIR filed against Rahul Gandhi. An FIR was on Monday filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, on the campaign trail in Uttar Pradesh, for alleged violation of model code of conduct by district authorities which said his road show here had breached the time limit and the route map set...
11:46 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Hyderabad: A day-long shutdown began in Andhra Pradesh on Monday on a call given by Dalit groups to protest the recent desecration of statues of Dr B R Ambedkar. Schools, colleges, shops and business establishments remained closed in many districts while protestors blocked roads to stop buses of state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). Student organistaions, especially Osmania University student Joint Action Committee has also called for a...
09:35 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Guntur: Close on the heels of desecration of the statues of Dalit icon Babasaheb Ambedkar, figures of two Congress leaders were found on Saturday to be defiled in Tenali town in the district, police said. Statues of Congress leaders NG Ranga and Vangaveeti Ranga were found damaged, they said. In a bid to prevent any untoward incident, police reinstalled the image of Vangaveeti Ranga even as people gathered near the...
09:40 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Police on Saturday arrested three people for recent desecration of statues of B.R. Ambedkar in East Godavari district as Dalit groups continued protests in parts of the state. Police brought three arrested youths before media and said they were on the lookout for 10 others involved in the Monday incident at Amlapuram. Special investigating officer Krishnam Raju said the youths damaged the statues in an inebriated condition....
03:48 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Allahabad: A Public Interest Litigation was on Tuesday filed in the Allahabad High Court seeking directions for covering of statues of former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi across Uttar Pradesh till assembly elections were over in the state. The PIL, filed by Allahabad-based organisation "Adivasi Samajotthan Evam Kalyan Samiti" through its president RK Maurya, comes barely a fortnight after the Election Commission had ordered covering of...
09:26 PM, Jan 24, 2012
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