In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Pathankot Air Force station, the government is setting up a committee to review security preparedness of important defence installations across the country, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Thursday. Six heavily ar ....

The notice is a late reaction because the custom of wearing these bands has been around for years now in the socially charged environment of the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. This practice is, perhaps, the most conspicuous example of how caste-based assertion has ....

“I have to get seven months of my fellowship, one lakh and seventy five thousand rupees. Please see to it that my family is paid that …” January 17, 2016. The suicide note of Dalit Ph.D. scholar Rohith Vemula highlights how the delays in government ....

Soon after he completed his one year PhD (Science Technology and Societal Studies) coursework in June 2015, Mr. Vemula could neither pursue his research nor political activism because he had been tied down by three ongoing investigations, one conducted by the Gachibowli ....

Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Smriti Irani, whose Ministry sent at least four reminders to the Vice-Chancellor of UoH on the clash between five students of the Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) te ....

This prejudice has now exacted a terrible price. One of the five, a scholar of great promise, Rohith Vemula, committed suicide on January 17. Unable to bear the despair of having his one chance at a future snatched from him, of his value being reduced, in his own eloque ....

With the BJP notified January 24 as the date for the filing and scrutiny of nominations for the post of party chief, Amit Shah seems all set to be elected for a full three-year term. The saffron party’s convention is that just one consensus candidate files the nomi ....

The Start Up India mission to be unveiled on Saturday envisages technology business incubators and research parks. The Human Resource Development Ministry and the Department of Science and Technology have agreed to partner in an initiative to set up over 75 such star ....

“The government, going by the price it is paying for international crude oil, should be selling petrol at Rs. 19.40 per litre instead of Rs. 59.03 per litre and diesel at Rs. 15.71 per litre instead of Rs. 44.18 per litre,” Congress Chief Spokesperson Randee ....

The NIA will move court next week to seek permission for the lie detector test. Officials said that for the test to be conducted, Mr. Singh has to give his concurrence first. The official did not explain whether Mr. Singh has agreed for the tests. The NIA has questio ....