Concerned over the continuing suicides by the students and youth for the Telangana cause, activists observed Wednesday as 'anti-suicide day' by administering a pledge to the students not to end their lives but to work hard to achieve 'Telangana'.
'The central BJP leaders were determined to push Hindutva hard, and it failed.'
Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad account for 33% of the total active paid subscriptions.
'The wife will not only abuse her husband for giving her less money, but also abuse the government.' 'Look at the price of a cooking gas cylinder, it is Rs 1,200.'
The SC, however, rejected NIA's request for immediate stay to the order.
The protests at the Osmania University, which has been the nerve centre of the movement, have intensified and two buses have been burnt down despite heavy police presence. Protests were also witnessed at the Dharna Chowk locality in Hyderabad.
'Had it not been for the complicity of the state and Biren Singh's leadership, these riots would not have spread this far and for so long.'
A girl wearing hijab will become the prime minister of the country one day, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said amid the controversy over Muslim women's headscarves.
The committee, headed by former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agrawal, discussed ways to "promote zero budget based farming", to "change" crop patterns keeping in mind the changing needs of the country, and to make MSP more "effective and transparent".
Animated or aggressive? Debate over the emblem atop the new Parliament building rages with several historians dismayed that the essence of the original 'protective' Ashokan lions has been effaced while others say the differences are minuscule and no two pieces of art can be identical.
Pro-Telangana students of Osmania University on Tuesday clashed with police who lobbed teargas shells to prevent them from taking out a rally in support of the separate statehood demand, sparking tension in the university campus.
Modi on Saturday will embark on a three-city tour to take stock of the COVID-19 vaccine development work.
Sajid Nadiadwala replaces Shraddha Kapoor with Kiara Advani for his Kartik Aaryaan starrer.
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'There was a revolt. They were fighting for their rights.' 'They lost their rights after colonial forest policies came into place.' 'These freedom fighters were trying to reassert those rights.'
Jamia turned into a battlefield on Sunday as police entered the campus and also used force, following protest against the Act.
'We would like to develop Andhra Pradesh into a logistics hub not only for India, but also for South Asia.'
It took a five-day hunger strike by the former Delhi University professor, in jail without a break for five years after being convicted of links with Maoists, for the jail administration to agree to his request for a water bottle.
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella along with Alphabet Inc and its subsidiary Google CEO Sundararajan Pichai are also among those from trade and industry who have been awarded the Padma Bhushan for their distinguished services.
The protesting students claimed that when they reached Red Fort, police did not allow them to take out the march but they did not budge and said they would make their voices heard.
Russia's Sputnik V vaccine and its one-shot version Sputnik Light booster demonstrates high virus-neutralising activity (VNA) against the highly-contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, providing a strong defence against severe disease and hospitalisation, according to a study.
These vaccines have not yet been approved by the World Health Organization
'BJP and Modi are confident they will win the 2024 election.'
'Even if the BJP does not come to power, the system has changed.'
Dr K Jayashankar, the father of the struggle for Telengana, on the road ahead.
The Karnataka high court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear the hijab inside the classroom.
First a scientist and then a businessman, founder chairman Krishna Ella quit his faculty position at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, United States, in 1996 to return to India.
With the fashion world blurring the lines between innovation, technology and reality, shopping is all set to be revolutionised.
A nasal vaccine, one expert said, is a "fantastic idea" for two reasons -- one, it can potentially create sterile immunity, and two, it is easy to administer and thus scalable.
His visit to India followed a few cancelled plans since he took office in July 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis, with the two leaders holding several virtual talks and eventually meeting in person on the sidelines of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last November.
The Union health ministry data on Friday said the number of coronavirus cases in India breached the 45 lakh mark while a data released by a national public health institute in the US said the number of infections in the North American country crossed six million as of September 8.
Two students, who had shouted slogans during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address at a convocation function in Lucknow, on Saturday said they took the step to ensure that no Dalit student faces the same fate as HyderabadUniversity's scholar Rohith Veluma.
It is for the investigating agencies to probe all aspects of the assassination, including a possible Chinese hand, or if the killer was just a disgruntled element who acted on his own and wanted to earn some dark space in history like Nathuram Godse or Lee Harvey Oswald, notes Japan expert Rajaram Panda.
Another regret that rankles is that he is yet to play international cricket at home with his countrymen cheering.
Uncle Pai, as he was fondly called, inculcated in Indian children a love for and interest in India's glorious past and its heroes.
'Kanhaiya is eager to play a more active political role as a young leader of a major mainstream party.'
A technical advisory group of the World Health Organisation was on Tuesday reviewing data on Covaxin for the emergency use listing of India's indigenously-made vaccine and it could pronounce its decision within the next 24 hours or so, a spokesperson said.
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation has granted restricted emergency use authorisation to two new vaccines and a drug for COVID-19, taking the number of preventives and treatments available in India to 12.
University of Hyderabad scholar Rohith Vemula's mother was admitted to the hospital on Sunday after she complained of chest pain.
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