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Mamata storms out of TV show over cartoon row

West Bengal CM lost her cool and stormed out of an interactive TV session when members of audience a...

Panel set up to examine pol science textbooks

The government has set up a panel headed by former UGC chairman S K Thorat in the wake of the cartoo...

Sibal opposes toons on political class in textbook

Under attack over the cartoon row, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal acknowledged that cartoons on the politi...

JD(U) not for Sibal`s resignation over cartoon row

Opposition Janata Dal (United) on Monday said it was not in favour of seeking resignation of HRD Min...

Ambedkar cartoon issue generates heat in LS

Sanjay Nirupam demanded that an apology should be rendered to those who have been insulted in the ca...

Ambedkar cartoon row: 4 sent to police custody

Four persons allegedly involved in the ransacking of the office of former NCERT advisor Suhas Palshi...

Ambedkar cartoon row: Textbooks to be reviewed, says govt

Pranab Mukherjee said that all text books will be reviewed and if any inappropriate content is found...

Attack on Palshikar`s office "sad and farcical": Yadav

Former NCERT advisor Yogendra Yadav on Saturday described as "tragic and sad" the attack on the offi...

Cartoon row: Ex-NCERT advisor’s office attacked

A day after the row over Dr BR Ambedkar’s cartoon hit Parl, workers of the Republican Panthers Party...

Cong insulted Gujjars, Jat, Sikh, Jain communities: BJP

BJP slammed the government on the issue of cartoon of Dalit icon B R Ambedkar in school text books a...

Iranian cartoonist’s 25-lash conviction condemned

The picture drawn by Mahmoud Shokraye of Iranian MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani was deemed insulting.

Ambedkar cartoon: Sibal apologises after Maya breaths fire

Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal tendered an apology in the Lok Sabha after a cartoon of B R Ambe...

Ambedkar cartoon: Mayawati threatens to stall Parl

HRD Ministry later said that the government has ordered removal of the cartoon from the NCERT textbo...

NCERT asked to remove Ambedkar cartoon: Sibal

The objectionable cartoon, credited to Shankar`s Children`s Book Trust, appears in chapter I titled ...

Another cartoon in WB, professor files complaint

A professor of Midnapore Medical College filed a complaint against two persons accusing them of circ...

Toongate: Kabir Suman mocks Mamata, composes song

Singer-turned-Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman has composed a song, "Hasi Niye Thako" (Live with a ...

Trinamool not monitoring social media: Derek

The Trinamool Congress on Monday ruled out setting up a mechanism to monitor social media.

Cartoon row: Lalu criticises WB professor`s arrest

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Monday termed the arrest of a Jadavpore University professor as an assaul...

Cartoons are integral part of democracy: Trivedi

West Bengal police on Friday arrested Professor Ambikesh Mohapatra for posting a cartoon of Mamata B...

Cartoons are integral to democracy: Dinesh Trivedi

Reacting to the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor in Kolkata for posting a cartoon of Chie...

Cartoon row: Prof fears for his life; 4 arrested

The cartoon showed the CM and the Railway Minister exchanging dialogues from popular Bengali film `...

Cartoons row: Mamata is scared, says TMC MP

Rebel TMC MP Kabir Suman has expressed shock over the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor for ...

I sent the mail for pure fun: Jadavpore Unniv professor

A Jadavpore University professor was arrested for allegedly circulating defamatory cartoons of some ...

Prof in anti-Mamata cartoon case granted bail

Univ prof Ambikesh Mahaptara was arrested on Friday morning by WB police for allegedly forwarding de...

Protesters throw eggs at Swedish cartoonist

The artist has received numerous death threats from radical Islamists.

Cartoon characters spicing up Punjab polls

Cartoon characters seem to be an answer to satirist Jaspal Bhatti`s demand for some colour in the Pu...

In West, late N Korean leader a cartoon villain

Satirists relished skewering a leader whose shrill missives to the world, intolerance for any dissen...

UNESCO reprimands Israel over newspaper cartoon

A newspaper cartoon shows Israeli Prime Minister telling pilots to bomb UNESCO`s office after bombin...

Danish cartoonist back home after possible threat

He has been repeatedly threatened since a 2005 Danish newspaper published cartoons of Muhammad, in...

`Militants plan al Qaeda cartoon for kids’

Al Qaeda sympathisers are planning to produce a children`s cartoon film for young Muslim viewers.

MF Hussain draws cartoon in support of Hazare

Self-exiled artist MF Hussain has drawn a cartoon extending support to Anna Hazare saying what the...

Malaysian newspaper apologises for tsunami cartoon

The cartoon depicts Japanese costume hero Ultraman fleeing oncoming tsunami.

Danish cartoonist`s attacker jailed for nine years

A Danish court jailed a Somali for nine years after finding him guilty of attempted terrorism.

Somali `innocent` in Danish cartoonist attack

The man `only wanted to scare` Kurt Westergaard for caricaturing the Prophet.

Syria encouraged anti-cartoon protest: US cables

The embassies of Denmark and Norway were both torched in the Syrian protests.

Anti-terror cartoons tell Russian children to behave

Russia`s FSB security service has created an unexpected Internet hit by launching a series of blac...

Danish FM meets top Muslim cleric to defuse cartoon tension

Denmark`s foreign minister said Thursday that the hurt caused to Muslims from cartoons lampooning th...

New Mohammed cartoon book out in Denmark

A new book containing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed went on sale on Thursday in Den...

Police release defiant Malaysian cartoonist: Lawyer

Malaysian police have released a controversial political cartoonist after arresting him under a hars...

Malaysian cartoonist arrested over comic book

A Malaysian political cartoonist said he had been arrested under the Sedition Act and his offices r...

US cartoonist goes into hiding on FBI advice

US cartoonist has been declared a `target` by a radical Muslim cleric.

Mohammed drawing will never die: Danish cartoonist

A clash between Islam, Western culture was inevitable, says Kurt Westergaard.

Controversial Danish cartoonist to publish memoirs

The former Danish newspaper cartoonist who received numerous death threats for his drawing depicting...

Cartoons trump news on S Korea smartphones

Cartoons are more popular than news with South Korean smartphone users, especially during the tediou...

Malaysia bans political cartoons critical of govt

Malaysia has banned three works of political cartoons that criticise govt.

Laxman overcomes the `patient` in hospital bed

Bedridden in a city hospital after suffering a series of strokes, India`s best known cartoonist want...

Noted cartoonist Laxman`s condition stable

The condition of eminent cartoonist R K Laxman, who is being treated for lung infection and kidney p...

RK Laxman in hospital after suffering strokes

Eminent cartoonist RK Laxman has suffered three mild strokes and admitted to the intensive care un...

Present resolution in the UN on Prophet`s cartoons: Pak Judge

A Pakistani judge who recently directed authorities to block Facebook has ordered the country`s en...

Present resolution in the UN on Prophet`s cartoons: Pak Judge

A Pakistani judge who recently directed authorities to block Facebook ordered the country`s envoy to...

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