Anti-national Speeches

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar Sunday said there was a need to "generate a climate" to nip in the bud anti-national narratives set afloat by design to malign institutions and high constitutional offices.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat - whose outfit is the ideological mentor of the BJP - today hit out at OTT platforms, and the narcotics trade, blaming them all for funding "anti-national activities" and demanding they be controlled.

The Delhi police have charged human rights activist and former student leader Umar Khalid of conspiring to fuel the riots in the national capital earlier this year, besides making anti-national speeches and committing other crimes. The violence in the city in February led to the death of more than 50 people and followed the countrywide protests aga...

New rules to regulate hate speech, fake news, defamatory posts and anti-national activities on social media will be finalised by January 15, the government told the Supreme Court today. The top court also transferred all cases pending at the Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh High Courts, concerning a demand for sharing of decrypted data of social m...

There has been an exponential increase in hate speech, fake news, defamatory posts and anti-national activities on social media platforms, the centre told the Supreme Court today, arguing for greater control over the internet

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi said today that anyone who criticizes the government is branded as an anti-national these days. She added that no one in the country should be afraid and no one needs a certificate to prove anything.

Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS, said today that Maoism has always been "urban" and that the neo-Left doctrine of "urban naxals" is to establish an "anti-national" leadership with blind followers solely committed to them.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's all-out attack on the Congress and the Gandhi family over the 1975 Emergency evoked a strong reaction from the Congress, which likened him to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, whose reign has been described as oppressive by a majority of historians. There is an "atmosphere of fear" in the Prime Minister's administration, in w...

"Words matter", as a wiser and older George W. Bush has advised President Trump. Yes, they do here in India as much as in the US. Remember "Pappu" and "Feku"? Such labels stick. However, they are not half as problematic as invisible half-words and powerfully emotive discourse.

Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy was acquitted by a court in Patiala on Tuesday of all charges in a case accusing him of delivering 'anti-national' speeches at Punjabi University in 2010.

The speech by JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar subsequent to his release on bail was the bone of contention in two pleas before the Delhi High Court seeking action against him as well as cancellation of the six-month interim relief granted to him.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who walked out of Tihar on bail last week where he was lodged in a sedition case, today indicated that he is unlikely to campaign in the upcoming West Bengal and Kerala Assembly polls.

Jawaharlal Nehru University student union president Kanhaiya Kumar addressed the media with an assurance that the campus was not being used for anti-national activities.

In the season of controversial speeches, a BJP leader in West Bengal has used a public forum to threaten beheading for those shouting anti-national slogans.

Criticising the February 9 event in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said freedom of speech does not mean that one should indulge in anti-national activities.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar Sunday said there was a need to "generate a climate" to nip in the bud anti-national narratives set afloat by design to malign institutions and high constitutional offices.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat - whose outfit is the ideological mentor of the BJP - today hit out at OTT platforms, and the narcotics trade, blaming them all for funding "anti-national activities" and demanding they be controlled.

The Delhi police have charged human rights activist and former student leader Umar Khalid of conspiring to fuel the riots in the national capital earlier this year, besides making anti-national speeches and committing other crimes. The violence in the city in February led to the death of more than 50 people and followed the countrywide protests aga...

New rules to regulate hate speech, fake news, defamatory posts and anti-national activities on social media will be finalised by January 15, the government told the Supreme Court today. The top court also transferred all cases pending at the Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh High Courts, concerning a demand for sharing of decrypted data of social m...

There has been an exponential increase in hate speech, fake news, defamatory posts and anti-national activities on social media platforms, the centre told the Supreme Court today, arguing for greater control over the internet

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi said today that anyone who criticizes the government is branded as an anti-national these days. She added that no one in the country should be afraid and no one needs a certificate to prove anything.

Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS, said today that Maoism has always been "urban" and that the neo-Left doctrine of "urban naxals" is to establish an "anti-national" leadership with blind followers solely committed to them.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's all-out attack on the Congress and the Gandhi family over the 1975 Emergency evoked a strong reaction from the Congress, which likened him to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, whose reign has been described as oppressive by a majority of historians. There is an "atmosphere of fear" in the Prime Minister's administration, in w...

"Words matter", as a wiser and older George W. Bush has advised President Trump. Yes, they do here in India as much as in the US. Remember "Pappu" and "Feku"? Such labels stick. However, they are not half as problematic as invisible half-words and powerfully emotive discourse.

Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy was acquitted by a court in Patiala on Tuesday of all charges in a case accusing him of delivering 'anti-national' speeches at Punjabi University in 2010.

The speech by JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar subsequent to his release on bail was the bone of contention in two pleas before the Delhi High Court seeking action against him as well as cancellation of the six-month interim relief granted to him.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who walked out of Tihar on bail last week where he was lodged in a sedition case, today indicated that he is unlikely to campaign in the upcoming West Bengal and Kerala Assembly polls.

Jawaharlal Nehru University student union president Kanhaiya Kumar addressed the media with an assurance that the campus was not being used for anti-national activities.

In the season of controversial speeches, a BJP leader in West Bengal has used a public forum to threaten beheading for those shouting anti-national slogans.

Criticising the February 9 event in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said freedom of speech does not mean that one should indulge in anti-national activities.