He is suspected to have jumped into the sea off Greece Before he was suspected to have jumped into the sea off Greece, 22-year-old Umashankar Mahto wrote extensively in his diary of “mental torture” by the chief officer of m.t. True, who often abused him using filthy language. On several occasions, he complained he was hungry and clearly said he could not go on with his life’s dream of proving […]
It is not the lack of skills and poor education institutes, but the lack of passion to learn and poor choices that is holding India’s young grads back. Read on for interesting insights from a recent roundtable held in Mumbai. Just when most of us were reeling from the after-effects of the McKinsey report that a majority of young Indians are unfit for employment, Raman Madhok, Group Director, Human resources, […]
‘Anyone of them could have been the girl. So in a way it had what I call the ‘rakhi effect’. Everyone felt the rape victim could have been my sister and everyone felt that could have been myself.’ Professor Shiv Visvanathan speaks to Rediff.com‘s Sheela Bhatt on the recent demonstrations by India’s youth, and on current political and social trends. You can expect Professor Shiv Visvanathan, intellectual and author, to start a […]
six-member special team comprising five from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and one from the Income Tax department was on Thursday constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the contents of tapped telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos and others. A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya said the working of the team will be supervised by two officers of […]
Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old girl for questioning the total shutdown in the city for Bal Thackeray’s funeral on her Facebook account. Another girl who ‘liked’ the comment was also arrested. The duo were booked under Section 295 (a) of the IPC (for hurting religious sentiments) and Section 64 (a) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Though the girl withdrew her comment and apologised, a mob of some 2,000 […]
A city lawyer and social activist on Sunday lodged a first information report (FIR) against popular social networking site Facebook, after his profile was blocked. The report was filed at the ‘cyber crime cell’ of the Lucknow police by Prince Lenin, a resident of Hussainganj in Lucknow. In his complaint, Lenin alleged that although he had long been a user of Facebook, his profile was recently blocked by the site […]
NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev on Monday courted arrest after he was stopped by Delhi Police from marching towards Parliament as part of his intensified protest against corruption and bringing back black money stashed away on foreign shores. Ramdev courted arrest along with thousands of his supporters near the Ranjit Singh flyover, just a few metres away from the Ramlila Maidan in central Delhi, the venue of his fast protest […]
