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#MeToo impact: M J Akbar steps down amid sexual harassment allegations

The BJP finally decided it could not continue to be brazen in ignoring the allegations

How our politicians let us down...

Their response to l'affaire Akbar illustrates the yawning gap between them and urban, middle-class, English-speaking India

M J Akbar's defamation case against Priya Ramani up for hearing on Thursday

M J Akbar's criminal defamation complaint against journalist Priya Ramani, who has accused him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago, is scheduled to come up for hearing on Thursday in the Patiala House court here. Akbar on Wednesday tendered his resignation as Minister of State for External Affairs. His lawyer Sandeep Kapur of law firm Karanjawala & Co said that the private criminal defamation case will come up for hearing on Thursday before additional chief metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal. The lawyer also forwarded the brief resignation letter of Akbar who was associated with several media houses in the past. "Since I have decided to seek justice in a court of law in my personal capacity, I deem it appropriate to step down from office and challenge false accusations levied against me, also in a personal capacity. I have, therefore, tendered my resignation from the office of Minister of State for External Affairs. I am deeply grateful to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi .

#MeToo: Akbar's defamation suit against Priya Ramani to be heard on Oct 18

Akbar, in his complaint, said that it was apparent that the false narrative against him was being circulated in a motivated manner and for the fulfilment of an agenda

#MeToo: Women journalists demand M J Akbar's dismissal, write to President

Akbar, the Minister of State for External Affairs, has sued the woman who had first named him in the #MeToo campaign

#MeToo: M J Akbar files criminal defamation suit against journalist Ramani

Ramani says she was disappointed that Akbar's statement of Sunday paid no heed to the "trauma and fear of the survivors"

Ready to fight defamation complaint filed by M J Akbar: Priya Ramani

He filed a private criminal defamation complaint in a Delhi court Monday against Ramani, who has recently levelled the charges of sexual misconduct against him as the #MeToo campaign rages on in India

M J Akbar gave his stand on sexual charges, going for a legal action: Nadda

M J Akbar has rejected the allegations as "false, fabricated and deeply distressing"

Akbar should speak up, his silence would mean that charges are true: Cong

'Such a person should resign,' the Congress spokesperson said

Even those who witnessed 9/11 often forget threat of terrorism: MJ Akbar

"I wonder why they seem to be waiting for it to happen," Akbar said about terrorism.

Government will never compromise on terrorism: M J Akbar

He refused to comment on Mallya saying the matter is pending before a British court

M J Akbar: Economic migrants contribute to job creation, innovation

Economic migration is a natural outcome of an interconnected world

Pakistan is run by 'warmachine' that glorifies terrorists: M J Akbar

Burhan Wani is a self-declared commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen, organisation is widely acknowledged as a terrorist group internationally, said Akbar

MJ Akbar to address high-level UNGA summit for refugees, migrants

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will arrive here on September 24 to address the General Debate on September 26

Nations with facade of human rights are worst hypocrites: M J Akbar

In his Independence Day speech, Akbar said India is a nation which believes in faith equality and not faith supremacy

Those who attack music in Islam's name are faith's enemies: M J Akbar

Music has power to heal, to glorify, and fertility symbolised by music is to be honoured, Said Akbar

M J Akbar to ring NASDAQ bell to mark India's I-Day

Akbar will visit the Nasdaq MarketSite and would be joined by India's Consul General in the city Riva Ganguly Das

Akbar, in history and in the present

It was Gen V K Singh, minister of state for external affairs, who had said that Akbar Road should be renamed as Maharana Pratap Road. The only problem is, Gen Singh now has right next to his room in the hallowed portals of South Block, a different Akbar, his colleague M J Akbar. Will Gen Singh insist that M J Akbar also change his name, to remove and forever eliminate the reminder of history that an emperor called Akbar once ruled India? And what should M J Akbar's new name be? Suggestions are welcome: Please write to Gen V K Singh, c/o South Block.

BJP's MJ Akbar, Anil Dave; Cong's Tankha elected to RS from MP

BJP's bid to spoil the Congress candidate's chances by fielding BJP leader Vinod Gotia as an independent candidate did not bear fruit