Ambedkar statue: HC pulls up State
Bengaluru: Frowning on the state government’s failure to temporarily shift the statue of Dr B.R. Ambedkar from the Vidhana Soudha premises, the high court sought to know why this has not been done an
Will ensure a Ambedkar memorial: PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said here that Babasaheb Ambedkar is the father of the Constitution and his government will ensure a befitting memorial for him.
The PM told this to an a
Cartoon row: Mamata loses cool, storms out of live TV session
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday lost her cool and stormed out of an interactive TV session here when members of audience asked her about the arrest of a professor for forwarding a
No humour please, we are Indians!
In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings ‘who were scared to laugh’. With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambe
Cartoon issue generates heat in LS
The issue of controversial cartoons in textbooks generated heat in the Lok Sabha on Monday with members demanding immediate action in the matter saying the sketch has hurt sentiments of a section of t
Cartoon row: Four accused sent to police custody
Four persons allegedly involved in the ransacking of the office of former NCERT advisor Suhas Palshikar in the wake of the row over B.R. Ambedkar's cartoon have been sent to two days police custody by
Toon row: Ex-NCERT adviser’s office ransacked
A group of persons on Saturday ransacked the office of Prof Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as NCERT adviser in the wake of the row over cartoon of B.R. Ambedkar in school text books.
NCERT advisor's office ransacked over cartoon
Republican Party of India activists ransacked the office of an NCERT advisor, Suhas Palshikar, here on Saturday, a day after he resigned in the wake of a row over a cartoon on B.R. Ambedkar in a schoo
Ambedkar cartoon, Aircel-Maxis issues disrupt Lok Sabha
A cartoon depicting B.R. Ambedkar purportedly published in a NCERT textbook and row over Home Minister P. Chidambaram's statement in the Aircel-Maxis deal on Friday led to disruption of the Lok Sab
Mayawati threatens to stall Parliament on Ambedkar cartoon issue
The issue of publication of a cartoon of B.R. Ambedkar in an NCERT book threatened to snowball into a crisis with BSP Chief Mayawati on Friday declaring she will not allow Parliament to function if