Janmashtami 2025 will be celebrated on 16 August, marking the birth of Lord Krishna with devotion, music, and joy. Apart from visiting temples and observing fasts, many people now share the festive spirit online. Sending wishes, messages, and WhatsApp status updates has become a modern way to spread Krishna’s blessings to loved ones, no matter … Read more
Rakshanda Rashid’s daughter Fatima Sheikh had told The Hindu earlier that her mother was taken to the Attari border in Punjab by the Jammu and Kashmir Police and expelled from the country on April 28. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday (July 10, 2025) sought a response … Read more
Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor Naima Khatoon arrives at the Supreme Court on November 8, 2024 ahead of the top court’s verdict in the case related to granting minority status to the university. | Photo Credit: PTI A wave of celebration pervaded Aligarh Muslim University after the Supreme Court judgment on Friday (November 8, 2024) affirmed … Read more
Activists of Maithili Sangharsh Abhiyan demonstrating to protest against the decision of Bihar Government to abolish Maithili Language from Bihar Public Service Commission on March 08, 1992. | Photo Credit: The Hindu archives While five languages were accorded the classical status earlier this month, Maithili, a language for which demands have been raised time and … Read more
CEO of Nutrihub, B Dayakara Rao (right), felicitating Uttarakhand Agricultural Minister Ganesh Joshi during International Nutri Cereal Convention 6.0 (INCC) in Hyderabad on Friday. Also seen are Director General of the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR) G. Narendra Kumar, V.P. Sharma and others. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal “There’s an immediate … Read more
The Union Cabinet’s decision on Thursday to grant classical language status to Marathi, a demand pending since 2013, has set off a political credit war in the State ahead of the Assembly election due this year. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to X to state that “Marathi is India’s pride” and “this honour acknowledges … Read more
The Dhangar community in Maharashtra on Monday staged a ‘rasta roko’ demanding that the State government issue a Government Resolution (GR) for their inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category. The six community leaders, sitting on an indefinite hunger strike for the past 15 days, have also demanded that the GR should mention that there … Read more
Women planting paddy seedlings in an agricultural field in Nagaon district of Assam. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar On March 11, Bahutva Karnataka, a forum for concerned citizens and organisations, released a report titled ‘Employment, Wages and Inequality’, at the Press Club, Bengaluru. The report analyses the progress in various employment-related indicators in the … Read more
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin | Photo Credit: VEDHAN M Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, on Saturday, February 17, 2024, said the State government would grant life-time recognition to minority educational institutions in Tamil Nadu. Addressing a meeting of the Tamil Nadu Minorities Welfare Board, he said this had been a long-pending demand … Read more
Andhra Pradesh Congress president Y.S. Sharmila. File photo: By Arrangement. APCC president Y.S. Sharmila has demanded that the government hold a discussion on the floor of the Assembly on “the betrayal of the people of Andhra Pradesh by the BJP Government at the Centre in last 10 years”, pass a resolution on the “Rights of … Read more