New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre and state governments to constitute a judicial commission or expert committee to review the wages and service conditions of priests, sevadars and temple staff working in state-controlled temples across the country. The plea, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay through advocate-on-record Ashwani Kumar Dubey, also sought a declaration that priests and temple staff f…
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New York, Feb 18 (IANS) Jesse Jackson ranked in the lineage of civil rights and anti-racism icons like his mentor Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was the “spiritual godfather” of leaders like them, Jackson said in his keynote address at an event for the 60th anniversary of the martyrdom of the prophet of Satyagraha in 2008 in New Delhi.Jackson, who died on Tuesday, was a fighter for civil rights in the US, carrying on the peaceful battle that Ki…