Left to the Sangh Parivar, Savarkar will soon become one whose memory and image will be placed alongside Gandhi. Mutual accusations and incrimination over whether Vinayak Damodar Savarkar lived up to ...

NCERT’s deletions will help intensify the hate that has led to many acts of violence in the past. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons In April, the National Council of Educational Research and Training ...

The newly introduced provision under Section 226 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita affirms the criminalisation of protests, such as indefinite hunger strike. Image Credit: The Leaflet In the British ...

Basak, 35, was felicitated by the India-Nepal joint mountaineering expedition team for summiting close to Mount Kanchenjunga. She had to return due to bad weather and health issues. Kolkata: Piyali ...

Hindutva proponents dislike these historians because they talk about divisions of caste and class, and why ‘national’ histories must always speak of a common past of the entire people. Today, the ...

The recent Howrah dumping ground disaster is a stark reminder of solid waste mismanagement in West Bengal, and the dire need for sustainable waste management practices. Representational photo: Credit: ...

In the first elections after the much-hyped Bihar caste survey, 12 MPs belonging to total 10.72% upper castes got elected, which is 30% of total 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Patna: In backward ...

In the dogmatic scheme of things then,‘Vande Mataram’ was more of a religious war cry to establish Hindu glory, before it became a political chant for freedom against the British. The Prime Minister ...

Durgawati Devi was a key participant in Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh’s Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. As many revolutionaries were on the run, and several others were under constant ...

The All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation will take out a procession in Beliaghata, where Gandhi stayed to hold all-faith meetings in August 1947. Kolkata: On Independence Day, Mahatma Gandhi ...

New Delhi: More than 162 workers died in industrial accidents last year highlighting the soaring cases of accidents in industrial and commercial establishments in recent years. According to ...

With rising temperatures, anger, sadness, and anxiety are also on the rise among the state's construction labourers. Workers battling the heat along with mental health (Photo - Jamsheena Mullappatt, ...