Courage is one of those virtues we admire from a distance but rarely think we will personally need. Amal Clooney, a human rights lawyer who has spent her career defending people in some of the world’s toughest cases, sees it very differently. Courage, she argues, is needed now more than ever. She made the point…
Former JNU teacher Ritu Priya delivers the Anugrah Narayan Sinha Memorial Lecture at A N Sinha Institute of Social Studies in Patna on Thursday Patna: Fear and anxiety over disease, access to treatment and the quality of care must be addressed to make healthcare systems more effective, former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) teacher Ritu Priya…
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court Advocates’ Association has urged that only practising advocates of Telangana origin be considered for elevation as judges to the HC by following social justice norms and by giving proper representation to all sections.The association made this appeal to the Supreme Court and high court collegiums on Monday, during an extraordinary…
Upendra Kushwaha and others at the RLM’s national convention in New Delhi on Saturday Patna: Former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha was unanimously re-elected national president of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) for the 2026-29 term at the party’s national convention in Delhi on Saturday.Amid speculation over the future of his son Deepak Prakash in the…
For onlineHyderabad : BRS has urged the SC commission to recommend Scheduled Caste (SC) status to Dalit Christians, asserting that a change in religion does not erase the social discrimination, exclusion, and economic hardships historically faced by Dalit communities.A BRS delegation met the Justice K.G. Balakrishnan Commission in New Delhi on Tuesday and submitted a…
Mysuru: KPCC spokesperson M Lakshmana on Tuesday claimed that if NDA had informed that JD(S) supremo and former PM HD Deve Gowda that he will not be renominated to Rajya Sabha, Congress would have thought about giving one of the three seats to him.He termed BJP’s decision to deny RS seat to Gowda is an…
Patna: Internal discord within the RJD came to the fore on Monday after the party fielded Sunil Singh as its candidate for a Bihar legislative council seat.The controversy erupted after senior RJD leader Shivchandra Ram resigned as national president of the party’s SC/ST wing, alleging denial of a ticket. Reacting to the development, RJD chief…
Chennai: Social justice minister Vanni Arasu on Sunday urged the Tamil Nadu govt to remain firm on the Thiruparankundram deepam issue and not succumb to the pressure from “religious fringe elements” seeking to politicise the controversy.State units of CPI and CPM also backed the govt’s stand that the practice of lighting the karthigai deepam lamp…
TNNVaranasi: Highlighting the importance of regional political parties, the RJD Rajya Sabha member Manoj K Jha said that regional parties are vital to India’s diversity. Whoever makes out that regional parties in India will vanish one day, prays for the ruin of India. The idea of India is the idea of diversity, the idea of…
Chennai: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the need for conducting caste survey in Tamil Nadu.Anbumani who convened a multi party meeting, said that the survey was not about welfare of any caste, but concerned the development of the state. BJP state president Nainar Nagenthran, former AIADMK minister Agri Krishnamurthy, Tamila Vazhvurimai Katchi founder Velmurugan…
