Noting that several external probes are currently underway -- including police investigation -- preliminary inquiry conducted by the district administration, inquiry by State Sports Secretary and inquiry by State Human Rights Commission, "hence it would not be appropriate to make any specific comment in this regard."
The students should think only about their career, studies, classes, minor examinations and semester examinations, and should not be deterred by any advice or persuasion to the contrary, the VC said.
For the second straight day, HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday made a strong defence of the government's actions with regard to the Jawaharlal Nehru University issue and suicide of Dalit student in Hyderabad University in the face of intense attack by the opposition which alleged that attempts were being made to suppress dissent.
India had claimed that Pak deployed US-manufactured F-16 jets to target Indian military installations.
Gupta, against whom the death warrant has been issued for execution along with three other condemned prisoners on March 3, has filed the curative plea saying that the death penalty should not awarded to him, his counsel A P Singh said.
A 3-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said there are no grounds to review the verdict
The petition, likely to come up for hearing on Tuesday, sought the court's direction to the Director General of Military Intelligence to withdraw its June 6 policy to the extent that it orders all the members of the Indian Army to delete their accounts from Facebook and Instagram and 87 other applications.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya over the suicide by a Dalit scholar saying the ministers and the vice chancellor have "not acted fairly" that forced him to take the extreme step.
Dismissing allegations that a letter written by him to Union HRD ministry led to the suspension of the five scholars, Dattatreya sought to clarify that he merely forwarded a representation given to him by the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
Germany was on high alert on Friday as police hunted for up to seven people suspected of plotting a New Year's Eve suicide attack in Munich in the name of the Islamic State group.
Labour unrest -- regarded for over two decades as a non-issue by foreign investors because of tight controls wielded by the government -- suddenly flared up highlighting poor conditions the workers faced across the country.
CBDT has sought explanation from B R Balakrishnan, former director-general of I-T (investigation wing) and former principal chief commissioner of I-T for Karnataka and Goa, who had ordered attachment of CCD's shares when he was in charge of the Bengaluru region. He retired last month.
The real battle for NEET abolition can take much more time and energy, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
"The United States and China share a mutual interest in achieving regional stability and peace, and that a failure to designate Azhar would run counter to this goal," State Department Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino said in response to a question on previous successful attempts by China to block the UN designation of Azhar
At least 25 explosive laden vehicles have reportedly sneaked into major cities of Pakistan, following which intelligence agencies have launched a massive search operation.According to sources, intelligence authorities have issued a warning to all four provinces in this regard, and asked them to take precautionary measures.The Interior Ministry has also issued a circular stating that suicide bombers along with the vehicles have entered Peshawar, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad.
Livelihoods and lives are being destroyed in the name of building a 'better' India, writes Congress leader Sachin Pilot, in an exclusive column for Rediff.com.
The anticipatory bail hearing of SPS Rathore, who molested 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, began at the sessions court in Panchkula on Friday. Rathore's wife Abha, who is also his lawyer, urged the court to grant bail to the former director general of police of Haryana.Ruchika had committed suicide a few years after the incident, following the arrest of her brother on false charges and continuous harassment by the police.Rathore is facing imminent arrest.
Pakistan on Monday launched a massive military operation in Punjab province in the wake of the deadly Taliban suicide bombing in Lahore, conducting raids and making several arrests.
The humiliating rebuff given to the power brokers in Delhi in Kerala's local body election carries a big message: Malayalis thoroughly disapprove of the Modi government's shenanigans to misuse central agencies to destabilise a genuinely popular state government, notes M K Bhadrakumar.
Scores of students gathered at VC's lodge after learning that Podile was holding a press conference to announce that he was going to resume charge on Tuesday.
The government's predicament is a result of its own doing: That of not ensuring adequate buy-in by the stakeholders before passage of the laws, notes Vivek Gumaste.
Once the Covid crisis subsides in the state, the NEET exam this year, whether conducted or cancelled, could become an electoral issue next year, along with the BC-MBC reservations issue, especially the 'creamy layer' aspect, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Protesting farmers owing allegiance to different farmers' bodies blocked state and national highways at several places on Saturday, causing inconvenience to commuters.
Officials said Umar Mansour, alias Umar Naray, had been killed in the US drone attack in the Bandar area of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Saturday.
The Tablighi Jamaat avoided confrontation, stayed clear of conversion of non-Muslims, abjured politics and focused only on religious attainment. >A fascinating excerpt from Ziya Us Salam's Inside The Tablighi Jamaat.
Ganapathy was found dead at Madikeri in Karnataka on July 7 last year.
The probe gave a clean chit to the tax department that was being alleged to have harassed Siddhartha.
Gandhi accused BJP of re-inaugurating projects launched by the UPA dispensation.
'The right conferred by Article 32 has been considered as a part of the 'basic structure of the Constitution', and thus cannot be taken away by anybody, not even by amending the Constitution.'
After some tough talk that the Centre has been given a 'long rope' and 'failed' to break the deadlock and not been 'effective' in handling the stir, the court said it will pronounce orders on Tuesday on various issues related to the farm laws and the farmers' ongoing stir at Delhi borders.
Removal of this status means India can now enhance customs duties to any level on goods coming from Pakistan.
Marathas, a politically-influential community constituting around 30 per cent of the state's population, have been demanding reservation in jobs and education.
The Congress questioned Modi what was the use of "swinging" with Xi.
The reports suggested six members of the terror outfit infiltrated into the state by sea from Sri Lanka and moved to different cities, including Coimbatore, according to the police.
The Delhi high court on Monday sought response of the Aam Aadmi Party government on a public interest litigation seeking direction to immediately release funds allocated for malaria and dengue control programmes to municipal bodies in the capital.
The body of 33-year-old soldier from Kerala was recovered near his camp in Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra.
'We were at war with the BJP in the 1990s. We were burning down each other's offices then. I don't want that to happen again.'
The US has also urged the two South Asian neighbours to avoid further military action.
Dr Anil Jasinghe, Director General of the Health Services, said the larger death toll was released as a result of a calculation error.
Varsity security personnel, who yesterday stopped entry of three Kerala MPs and social activist Teesta Setalvad into the campus, on Friday prevented Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav and others from entering the campus.
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