Ram was part of Dr Ambedkar's name: UP Guv

The Bihar Government on Saturday announced to introduce Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's middle name 'Ramji' in government and court records.

The damaged statue of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, which was rebuilt and painted saffron in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district, has been on Tuesday re-painted blue.The Ambedkar statue that was vandalised in Badaun's Dugraiyya village on April 8 was rebuilt with ...

The BJP's youth wing BJYM today said that there was "nothing wrong" in the Uttar Pradesh government's move to introduce 'Ramji' as the middle name of B R Ambedkar in all official correspondence and records.The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) also ...

Naik's remarks came a day after the state government issued an order on using 'Ramji' as Ambedkar's middle name in all references to him in official correspondence and records.

Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik, who is at the centre of a storm over the state government decreeing that the name of B.R. Ambedkar, considered the architect of the Indian Constitution, be officially expanded to Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, is unfazed by the ...

A statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was vandalised in Allahabad on Saturday, police said.The statue with its head chopped off was found by residents at a park in the city's Trivenipuram locality."We are aware of the matter and are trying to locate ...

The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday denied the opposition's charges that its move to add 'Ramji' to the name of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar was politically motivated.The state government shared with the media a postal stamp of 1991 when the then Congress ...

'The current BJP leadership believes the party's expansion across India, and thus their own survival at the top, depends on injecting communal tension into areas where it has so far been largely controlled,' argues Mihir S Sharma. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com A concern widely expressed in circles friendly to the Bharatiya Janata Party before the last assembly elections in Bihar was that a return of Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal to power in Patna would unleash 'jungle raj'. The ...

Fans of the franchise were thrilled when Hera Pheri 3 was announced a few years ago. The film was to be directed by Neeraj Vora. While there were many speculations about the casting for this third instalment, the film received a major setback in the form of ...