Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said the State is responding in insurgency-affected areas by greater militarisation and both the State and society were insecure as a result. “In the disturbed and insurgency-infested areas, people feel insecure both from the insurgents and the state. The state’s response has been toContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: Places of spirituality, must also be centres of welfare to humanity, according to Vice President Hamid Ansari. Ansari was inaugurating the 90 birth anniversary celebrations of Santhigiri Ashram founder Karunakara Guru on the premises of the ashram at Pothencode, near here, on Tuesday. Hamid Ansari also stressed the role ofContinue Reading
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said the experience of the Indian Muslim minority community living in a secular polity having a composite culture could be a model for others to emulate. “Thinking minds should look beyond questions of identity and dignity in a defensive mode and exploreContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday declared Kerala as the first Indian state to have achieved total primary education. “Kerala has added another feather to her educational cap through the successful culmination of the `Athulyam’ programme aimed at ensuring total primary education, equivalent to Class IV of formal education,” heContinue Reading