Despite warning from Amit Shah, BJP's 'beef' brigade remains defiant; PM Modi 'unhappy'
BJP chief Amit Shah had warned BJP leaders against making controversial remarks.
Oct 19, 2015, 05:03 AM IST
Sahitya Akademi row: Being anti-Hindu considered secularism in India?
Reinforcing the need to end pseudo secularism, noted Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has questioned the double standards of writers protesting against 'growing intolerance' in India.
Oct 18, 2015, 23:19 PM IST
Cow slaughter: Protests against Dadri lynching, why silence over Prashanth Poojary's murder?
One one hand, nationwide protests are being held against Mohammad Akhlaq's lynching for eating beef while on the other hand the case of Prashanth Poojary who worked to stop illegal slaughter and sm
Oct 18, 2015, 21:54 PM IST
Urdu poet Munnawar Rana returns Sahitya Award on live TV
Urdu poet Munawwar Rana on Sunday announced on live TV his decision to return Sahitya Akademi award along with a Rs one lakh cash prize and vowed not to accept any government award in future.
Oct 18, 2015, 20:29 PM IST
Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan steps up attack on BJP
Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan on Sunday condemned the lynching of an alleged cow smuggler in Himachal Pradesh and dared Haryana and Punjab governments to ban sale of the animal.
Oct 18, 2015, 19:25 PM IST
RSS distances itself from 'mouthpiece' justifying Muslim man's lynching
RSS Panchjanya has denied its support and involvement to kill cow killers.Editor Hitesh Shankar has said that they respected freedom of speech but not the subjective views of the writer.
Oct 18, 2015, 17:46 PM IST
RSS mouthpiece says Vedas ordered killing of cow killers; Digvijay tweets 'will Shah now summon Bhagwat?'
The RSS mouthpiece, Panchjanya, has justified the killing of Mohammad Iqlakh over rumours that he had eaten beef in his house.
Oct 18, 2015, 14:03 PM IST
Beef row: PM Modi unhappy over remarks of BJP leaders, Amit Shah reprimands them
BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday summoned Union Minister Mahesh Sharma, MP Sakshi Maharaj, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, and MLA Sangeet Som.
Oct 18, 2015, 11:53 AM IST
How false rumours lead to riots in India - Part 2
A 50-year-old man in northern India was killed in a mob lynching allegedly over rumours that his family had been storing and consuming beef at home.
Oct 17, 2015, 23:46 PM IST
Sangeet Som, Amar Singh conspiring to kill me, accuses Azam Khan
Amidst a fragile calm in Bishada, days after the lynching incident, senior Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan attacked Bharatiya Janata Party's state legislator Sangeet Som, saying he is conspiring to kill him.
Oct 17, 2015, 17:59 PM IST
Armed forces veterans raise Dadri case, seek grievance redressal mechanism
Ex-servicemen, who have been agitating for 'One Rank, One Pension', Saturday raised the Dadri lynching incident.
Oct 17, 2015, 16:22 PM IST
UP writer Kashi Nath Singh returns Sahitya Akademi award
Hindi novelist Kashi Nath Singh on Friday announced that he would be returning his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the Dadri lynching incident and the killing of Kannada writer M M Kalburgi.
Oct 16, 2015, 22:40 PM IST
Writers' protest is Congress sponsored, alleges BJP
Questioning why the writers did not protest in a similar manner after riots and killings in the past, BJP on Thursday alleged it was a "Congress sponsored" move and those returning awards in the wake of Dadri incident were doing a "new kind of politics" after their "patrons" lost.
Oct 15, 2015, 18:57 PM IST
Writers returning awards: Arun Jaitley's remarks perverse, shows govt is insensitive, says Congress
Congress on Thursday dismissed as "perverse and cynical" Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's remarks trashing the steady stream of writers returning Sahitya Academy awards as a "manufactured paper rebellion".
Oct 15, 2015, 17:44 PM IST
Bengal writers, intellectuals seek President's intervention
A group of more than 90 writers and intellectuals from West Bengal have written to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking his intervention in the Dadri incident.
Oct 15, 2015, 17:36 PM IST
Gujarat cops knock at writer Ganesh Devy's doors after he returns Sahitya Akademi Award
Gujarat-based writer Ganesh Devy, who last week returned his Sahitya Akademi Award, has claimed that he is now being hounded by police.
Oct 15, 2015, 12:57 PM IST
Lalu, Sharad hit out at PM for his Dadri lynching comment
The Bihar poll scenario on Wednesday got galvanised following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement on the Dadri lynching episode, with the leaders of grand alliance hitting out at him saying that his terming of the incident as unfortunate was too little and too late.
Oct 15, 2015, 00:04 AM IST
Deeply disappointed with Modi response to Dadri lynching: AAP
AAP on Wednesday deplored Prime Minister Narendra Modi's response to the Dadri lynching incident and terming of the opposition attack as "pseudo secularism", and said it doesn't behove a Prime Minister to make such "pseudo statements".
Oct 14, 2015, 23:08 PM IST
