India

New Delhi, Mar 7: AAP leader Mayank Gandhi today accused a "small group of party decision makers" of targeting him after he decried the decision to remove Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the Political Affairs Committee and said it could compel him to quit. He also said that a concerted effort was being made on the social media to portray him as "anti-party" and "anti-AK" (Arvind Kejriwal)

Colombo, Mar 7: Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has justified Lankan Navy's actions against Indian fishermen saying that that the law creates provisions for a man to 'shoot' an intruder in his home. In an interview to Thanthi TV, a Chennai based news channel, Wickremasinghe said his government was willing to make a 'reasonable deal' with India with respect to the fishing rights. "If

New Delhi / Kohima, Mar 7: The Centre has sought a report from Nagaland on the mob lynching of a rape-accused man by a mob in Nagaland's Dimapur, and put neighbouring Assam on high alert for possible violence. The mob had broken into the prison where the rape-accused was being held and dragged him out on to the streets naked before lynching him and hanging his body from a clock tower. Nagaland

New Delhi, Mar 6: Editors Guild of India today appealed to the government to revoke the ban on the telecast of the BBC documentary, depicting the aftermath of the brutal gangrape and murder of Nirbhaya in 2012, saying the move was "wholly unwarranted". The Guild said in a statement here that the documentary, 'Storyville: India's daughter', portrayed the courage, sensibility and liberal outlook of

New Delhi, Mar 6: The HRD Ministry has set up a committee to probe alleged misappropriation of funds received under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan by an NGO run by activist Teesta Setalvad, who is facing heat along with her husband in a separate case of embezzlement. The three-member committee is to be headed by Supreme Court lawyer Abhijit Bhattacharjee and comprise Gujarat Central University Vice

Bengaluru, Mar 6: Reactions to the government's ban on the controversial documentary, "India's Daughter," on the chilling 2012 Delhi gang-rape incident, has taken the Internet by storm. The audience who watched the film on Internet, questioned the government as to why the documentary should be banned. "We are bold women not bad women & rape is definitely not something we deserve. If the government

New Delhi, Mar 6: An upset government on Thursday served a legal notice on BBC over broadcast of controversial interview of Delhi gang-rape convict and said YouTube had removed the video even as it instructed telecom operators to ensure that it is not available to their subscribers. The government, in its notice, told the BBC that it has "violated" the agreement of not using the documentary for

Dimapur, Mar 6: An alleged rapist, suspected to be an illegal migrant, was thrashed and killed by a mob which stormed the high-security central jail in Nagaland's commercial town of Dimapur, officials said. At least 10 vehicles were also set ablaze by the unruly mob forcing the authorities to clamp curfew in Dimapur district. Syed Farid Khan, a 35-year-old second hand car dealer, had allegedly

London, Mar 5: Unfazed by the controversy, the British filmmaker behind the BBC documentary on the Delhi gangrape incident today accused the Indian government of trying to "muzzle free speech" by banning its telecast in India. Leslee Udwin's 'Storyville: India's Daughter' was due to be aired in the UK on Sunday to coincide with International Women's Day but the telecast was brought forward in the

Mumbai, Mar 5: AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were ready to quit from the party's top decision-making body but got sacked by loyalists of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, senior AAP leader Mayank Gandhi has said. Gandhi, one of the 19 who attended a party leadership meeting Wednesday where the two were dropped from the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), quoted Yadav and