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Veteran Manipuri filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma on Sunday said that he would return the Padma Shri as a mark of protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, terming it "anti-Northeast".

Congress government under Kamal Nath couldn’t control the law and order situation in Bhopal after 15 years of misrule by BJP, said Mayawati.

"This is total constitutional breakdown .It is my job to protect my officers. They (BJP) cannot fight politically. That's why they are resorting to these sort of tactics. Ajit doval is doing whatever the PM wants him to do, he is the one giving all instructions to CBI," said Mamata Banarjee to reporters on Sunday evening.

In government schools in West Bengal's villages, cleaning staff and mid-day meal workers are hired part time, which ensures low salaries and no benefits, and forces the women to do multiple jobs

What’s happening to Christians in the world's second most populous country and why?

Ammini, along with four other women, had made a failed attempt to enter the Sabarimala shrine on December 23. Since then, she has been facing threats from people who are opposed to women’s entry into the temple.

Mausam Benazir Noor, niece of former Union minister, late A B A Gani Khan Chowdhury, and two-time MP from Malda Lok Sabha constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday.

Authorities say they are legally acquiring land to be used for 'development' projects, but villagers tell another story. Most of tribal farmers in Jharkhand are subsistence farmers and half live below poverty line in Jharkhand.

Researches who have already taken to social media to engage in protest expressed their disappointment through facebook and Twitter and determined to continue the protest until their demands are met.

The 10% quota to the economically backward among the upper castes is the first step to end caste-based reservations, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said on Tuesday.

The wealth of the 10 richest Indians combined are equal to the gross state domestic product (GSDP) of four Indian states and six government ministries, according to...

A poem by Adivasi rights activist Abhay Xaxa