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'How can they call such a man a threat?'

'He is in a wheelchair, his joints are swollen and he is in great pain.' A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com speaks to colleagues and students of the polio-afflicted Delhi University Professor G N Saibaba, who was arrested on May 9 for alleged Naxalite links.

All you need to know about the Left-wing activists who were arrested

Maharashtra police on Tuesday raided the homes of prominent Left-wing activists in several states and arrested at least five of them for suspected Maoist links. Near simultaneous searches were carried out at the residences of prominent Telugu poet Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Farreira in Mumbai, trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj in Faridabad, and civil liberties activist Gautam Navalakha in New Delhi. Subsequently, Rao, Bhardwaj and Farreira were arrested. Although Navalakha was also arrested, the Delhi high court ordered police not to take him out of the national capital at least until Wednesday. According to unconfirmed reports, others whose residences were raided are Susan Abraham, Kranthi Tekula, Father Stan Swamy in Ranchi and Anand Teltumbde in Goa. The raids were carried out as part of a probe into the violence between Dalits and the upper caste Peshwas at Koregaon-Bhima village near Pune after an event called Elgar Parishad, or conclave, on December 31 last year. Here are their brief profiles:

'Gita is one of the world's outstanding economists'

Although the first woman to hold the position of chief economist at IMF, it would be wrong to see her appointment through the lens of gender

Pranab heads for Russia; to attend Victory Day celebrations

During the trip, Mukherjee will hold bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on civil nuclear cooperation, defence ties and partnership in higher education.

2 held for killing of man who objected to public urination

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday handed over a job letter to Ravinder's wife.

Mattoo: Santosh Kumar Singh gets death penalty

Deutsche Bank's Bagga quits

It is also learnt that Deutche bank has initiated a search for a new head of its private wealth management business in India

President appoints new Governors, Banwarilal Purohit made TN Governor

The appointments of five governors, including for Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, and Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands by President Ram Nath Kovind were announced on Saturday.

Mattoo case: Santosh Singh convicted

Delhi univ's first list cuts off many students

The cut-off list of top colleges like St Stephens, Hindu College, Sri Ram College of Commerce, Miranda House and Janaki Devi Mahavidyalaya are giving students and parents a harrowing time.

90% handicapped professor sentenced to life in prison

'In the history of Maharashtra this is the first case in which all the persons chargesheeted were all convicted under all the sections they were charged with, and sentenced to life.'

Why India's capital is in the wrong books

In Meher Chand Market, close to Lodhi Road in south Delhi, within a span of 40 minutes, the surveyor saw 19 people, including 18 men and a woman, who spat on the road.

Shiv Shankar Menon to be new foreign secretary

He replaces Shyam Saran, who has been designated as India's special envoy for the Indo-US nuclear deal.

Young scientists awarded at Science Congress

Kalam gave away the awards at a glittering function at the 94th Indian Science Congress at the Annamalai University in Chidambaram.

Here's how farmers's crop woes will end

The most dangerous thing about the plant is that it removes the native plants and replaces the bio-diversity. It also changes the soil's characteristic features.