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BJP ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Party announces support to Bharat Bandh by farmers; Olympic-winner Vijender...

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In a setback to the Centre's BJP government, one of its key partners, Hanuman Beniwal's Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, has announced its support to Bharat Bandh by...

“Betrayal of farmers”: Parkash Singh Badal of Akali Dal returns Padma award to protest...

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Former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has returned his Padma Vibhushan award to protest against what he called was the 'betrayal of farmers'...

Saif Ali Khan’s huge revelation, says he wanted to return his Padma awards

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Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan has made a huge revelation about his intention to return the Padma Shri award that he was conferred upon...

Now Anna Hazare to return his Padma Bhushan award, says Modi government betrayed people’s...

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Veteran anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has announced that he will be returning his Padma Bhushan award if the Centre's Narendra Modi government did fulfill...

15-time National Award winner filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma returns Padma award in protest against...

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The BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi came in for rude shock after the renowned Manipuri filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma announced that he will...

Renowned scientist PM Bhargava, who returned Padma Award on intolerance, passes away

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Renowned scientist Pushpa Mitra Bhargava, the founder director of CSIR-Centre for Cellular Molecular Biology (CCMB) here, who returned his Padma Bhushan award two years...

Sahitya Akademi winners can’t return awards, says Delhi High Court

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Sahitya Akademi awardees are not eligible to return their awards as they are granted after considerable deliberations, the Delhi High Court today noted. A bench...

Upset over SC curb on Dahi Handi, mandal to return award

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A Govinda mandal, which features in the Guinness Book of World Records for making the tallest human pyramid, has decided to return the appreciation...

Una Violence: Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana returns award

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As a mark of protest against the thrashing of Dalit youths at Una, Dalit writer Amrutlal Makwana on Thursday returned an award given by the Gujarat government. The...

Protests against intolerance will continue, say artists who returned awards

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Writers who had returned their awards in protest against what they felt was growing intolerance in the country say that the struggle would continue. "It...

President Pranab Mukherjee disapproves returning of awards, asks artists to cherish recognition

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President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday disapproved the intellectuals' decision to return their national honours in protest against the growing religious intolerance in India. Speaking at...

24 writers, filmmakers including Saeed Mirza and Kundan Shah return National Awards over ‘intolerance’

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In a collective move to draw the government's attention to their fears that the country's "robust democracy might be coming apart", 24 filmmakers and...

Arundhati Roy returns 1989 National Award for Best Screenplay

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Booker Prize-winning writer Arundhati Roy on Thursday announced that she had decided to return the National Award for Best Screenplay she had received in 1989 to...

India has always been intolerant, artists returning awards will not change anything: Kamal Haasan

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Actor Kamal Haasan said on Tuesday during a press conference, that awardees should not return awards even though he himself agreed that there was...

Veteran scinetist PM Bhargava will return his Padma Bhushan award because PM Modi ‘encouraging’...

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Veteran scientist P M Bhargava has announced he was returning the awards he received from the government of India to protest against communal politics...

Filmmakers join protest against intolerance. Dibakar Banerjee, 12 other return national awards

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In a dramatic development, 13 prominent filmmakers on Wednesday returned their various awards and honours they had received, protesting impediments to freedom of speech...

( Exclusive Part 3) Wrong for writers to return awards, most write for money...

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In the third part of an exclusive interview with Jantakareporter.com's Editor-in-Chief Rifat Jawaid, former Supreme Court judge Katju has criticised the writers who returned...

Munawwar Rana returns Sahitya Akademi award, prize money on live TV, vows never to...

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Renowned Urdu poet Munawwar Rana shocked the nation on Sunday by returning his Sahitya Akademi award along with the cheque of Rs 1 lakh...

So far 41 writers have returned various literary awards

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Leading Rajasthani and Hindi writer Nand Bhardwaj is the latest to return the Sahitya Akademi award to denounce "rising religious intolerance and attack on freedom of...

After Sahitya Akademi, now Punjabi author returns her Padma award

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After two dozens of eminent scholars and writers returned their prestigious Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the growing intolerance in the country, now...