News for 'University of Hyderabad'

Dalit student suicide: VC claims there was 'no pressure' to act

Dalit student suicide: VC claims there was 'no pressure' to act

Rediff.com20 Jan 2016

Hyderabad Central University VS Appa Rao on Wednesday asserted there had been "no pressure" from Union ministers or the HRD ministry to act against the youth.

PHOTOS: Students march for Rohith, JNU; Rahul, Kejriwal join them

PHOTOS: Students march for Rohith, JNU; Rahul, Kejriwal join them

Rediff.com23 Feb 2016

Thousands of students took to the streets demanding justice for Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and protesting the Jawaharlal Nehru University crisis.

HCU again on the boil, protesting students held

HCU again on the boil, protesting students held

Rediff.com6 Apr 2016

The students gathered in front of the campus as part of a call for 'Chalo HCU' given by Joint Action Committee for Social Justice of HCU to intensify their ongoing agitation demanding removal and arrest of vice chancellor Appa Rao Podile (who resumed as VC on March 22).

US Senate panel confirms Ken Juster as envoy to India

US Senate panel confirms Ken Juster as envoy to India

Rediff.com27 Oct 2017

Juster played a key role in the landmark Indo-US civil nuclear deal.

PHOTOS: When PM Modi was heckled

PHOTOS: When PM Modi was heckled

Rediff.com22 Jan 2016

Protesters raised slogans whilst attempting to disrupt the prime minister's address at the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow.

Gayle is probably greatest T20 player: Mandeep

Gayle is probably greatest T20 player: Mandeep

Rediff.com27 Oct 2020

'Like I said, he should never retire, he's always in great touch. I've been lucky that I've played with the likes of Chris Gayle, AB (de Villiers), (Adam) Gilchrist, Virat Kohli...'

A career in statistics: Giving life to numbers

A career in statistics: Giving life to numbers

Rediff.com29 Mar 2013

Statistics is more applied than mere Mathematics, and has the potential to impact many lives. A statistician's role is to give life to data, literally.

2 Indians trapped in Libya rescued, families relieved

2 Indians trapped in Libya rescued, families relieved

Rediff.com15 Sep 2016

The two Indians -- T Gopikrishna from Andhra Pradesh and C Balaram Kishan from Telangana, who were teaching at Libya's Sirte University, were abducted by Islamic State militants in July last year.

Alert: IIT-JEE 2010 details announced

Alert: IIT-JEE 2010 details announced

Rediff.com3 Nov 2009

Applications are invited for IIT Joint Entrance Examination 2010 for admission to undergraduate programmes at Indian Institutes of Technologies located at Bhubaneswar, Bombay (Mumbai), Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras (Chennai), Mandi, Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee

Delhi man 31st coronavirus case; 29,607 under watch

Delhi man 31st coronavirus case; 29,607 under watch

Rediff.com7 Mar 2020

During the day, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan held a meeting to review preparedness for COVID-19 management, through video conference with health ministers, chief secretaries of all states and UTs, central ministers and representatives from the related organisations and stressed on the need for keeping testing and quarantine facilities, isolation wards, and labs in active readiness.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai to visit India

Google CEO Sundar Pichai to visit India

Rediff.com4 Dec 2015

This would be the first visit to India as Google CEO.

Law grads earn Rs 300,000-Rs 900,000

Law grads earn Rs 300,000-Rs 900,000

Rediff.com21 Jul 2005

Rohith's suicide not Dalit vs non Dalit issue, says Smriti Irani

Rohith's suicide not Dalit vs non Dalit issue, says Smriti Irani

Rediff.com20 Jan 2016

Union minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday alleged that a malicious attempt was being made to project Rohith's suicide as a "dalit versus non-dalit issue to ignite passions".

ISB forms 'Ivy League' with 3 Asian B-schools

ISB forms 'Ivy League' with 3 Asian B-schools

Rediff.com23 Jul 2010

The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, has tied-up with three top Asian B-schools to devise a strategy to attract more students from the United States, Canada and Europe.

Ranji Trophy: Pujara's woes continue as Saurashtra struggle

Ranji Trophy: Pujara's woes continue as Saurashtra struggle

Rediff.com19 Feb 2022

Summary of all Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday

How this Google employee lost 19 kg in one year

How this Google employee lost 19 kg in one year

Rediff.com3 Jun 2019

Nimit Agarwal, 26 tells us how he went from 84 kg to 65 kg within a year.

Mother India has lost a son; I feel the pain: Modi on Rohith's suicide

Mother India has lost a son; I feel the pain: Modi on Rohith's suicide

Rediff.com22 Jan 2016

Mother India has lost a son. There will be reasons, there will be politics (surrounding it) but the fact remains that a mother has lost her son. I feel the pain very well," a visibly emotional Modi said.

India approves Oxford's, Bharat Biotech's vaccines for emergency use

India approves Oxford's, Bharat Biotech's vaccines for emergency use

Rediff.com3 Jan 2021

The approval by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) was given on the basis of recommendations submitted by a COVID-19 subject expert committee (SEC) of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).

Irani shunted out of HRD to divert Vemula issue: Kanhaiya

Irani shunted out of HRD to divert Vemula issue: Kanhaiya

Rediff.com6 Jul 2016

Kanhaiya, who is out on bail in a sedition case, has been leading a movement demanding justice for Rohith Vemula, a Hyderabad university scholar who was found hanging in his room earlier this year after he along with five others were suspended.

PIO entrepreneur to bring smart glasses to India

PIO entrepreneur to bring smart glasses to India

Rediff.com4 Mar 2019

OXSIGHT, founded in 2016 to create wearable technology devices based on how the brain manages visual information, began conducting trials in India two years ago in partnership with leading eye hospitals and clinics.

Dalit student's death gains political heat, campus protests on

Dalit student's death gains political heat, campus protests on

Rediff.com20 Jan 2016

A group of students carrying placards and raising slogans protested in the tense University campus on Wednesday morning.

Tri-Valley: TANA, consulate pitch in with help

Tri-Valley: TANA, consulate pitch in with help

Rediff.com26 Feb 2011

Ashok Kolla, chair, student committee, TANA, said last week that seven of the 18 students radio tagged had been relieved of their ankle irons. Peddibhotla said radio tags being removed is the first step in a long battle.

Rohith's death national shame; Irani spoke lies after lies: Kejriwal

Rohith's death national shame; Irani spoke lies after lies: Kejriwal

Rediff.com21 Jan 2016

Backing the agitating students of the Hyderabad university, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday called the suicide of a Dalit research scholar at the premier institute a "national shame" and accused the Centre of trying to indulge in "casteist politics".

No hurry to sell stake in InterGen: GMR

No hurry to sell stake in InterGen: GMR

Rediff.com2 Sep 2010

Bengaluru-based GMR Infrastructure bought 50 per cent of InterGen in 2008 for USD 1.1 billion from a fund owned by American International Group Inc.

US major PayPal set to launch UPI-based digital payments in India

US major PayPal set to launch UPI-based digital payments in India

Rediff.com3 Mar 2020

Its entry will increase competition especially when WhatsApp too has received approvals to launch payment service.

Another student kills himself for Telangana

Another student kills himself for Telangana

Rediff.com19 Jan 2010

Tension gripped Osmania University campus on Tuesday with another student committing suicide by setting himself ablaze in protest against the delay in formation of Telangana.

ISB students invited to ring closing bell at Nasdaq

ISB students invited to ring closing bell at Nasdaq

Rediff.com13 Jun 2013

ISB students were invited to ring closing bell at Nasdaq.

Pro-Telangana students CLASH with police again

Pro-Telangana students CLASH with police again

Rediff.com13 Jun 2013

Pro-Telangana students on Thursday clashed with police on the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad for the second consecutive day.

8% growth needed for a $5-trillion economy: Ex-RBI guv

8% growth needed for a $5-trillion economy: Ex-RBI guv

Rediff.com12 Jul 2019

The major task of the country is to move as fast as it can to achieve a higher standard of living, said former RBI governor C Rangarajan.

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

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

Rediff.com28 Aug 2018

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:

Kanhaiya wrongly labelled anti-national: Uddhav

Kanhaiya wrongly labelled anti-national: Uddhav

Rediff.com24 Apr 2016

Instead of giving them proper guidance and directions, the government is 'misleading' them, he said.

Civil Rights activist K Balagopal passes away

Civil Rights activist K Balagopal passes away

Rediff.com9 Oct 2009

Noted civil rights activist K Balagopal died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Hyderabad, family source said on Friday

A Professor Left to Rot in Jail

A Professor Left to Rot in Jail

Rediff.com16 Jul 2020

'People accused of mass murder and worse are let out on medical grounds.' 'Saibaba is now 100% handicapped, and has committed no murder, yet he is not allowed to come out.'

Why 'Greyhounds' for Osmania unrest? SC asks AP

Why 'Greyhounds' for Osmania unrest? SC asks AP

Rediff.com26 Feb 2010

The Supreme Court sought an explanation from the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday asking why it had deployed the elite anti-Naxalite force 'Greyhounds' to quell the students' unrest in Osmania University, the hotbed of Telangana statehood agitation.

Telangana stir: Student immolates self, 300 detained

Telangana stir: Student immolates self, 300 detained

Rediff.com20 Feb 2010

A pro-Telangana school student set himself ablaze raising slogans in support of a separate state, leading to tension on the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad on Saturday.

Vaccination drive hailed as decisive moment in fight against COVID-19

Vaccination drive hailed as decisive moment in fight against COVID-19

Rediff.com17 Jan 2021

Loud applause and cheers rang out as the first jabs were administered to frontline workers at hospitals and healthcare centres across the country on Saturday at the start of the gargantuan COVID-19 vaccination exercise, hailed as a 'momentous' occasion in India's fight against the pandemic.

ASI begins GPR survey of Nalanda's ruins

ASI begins GPR survey of Nalanda's ruins

Rediff.com19 Dec 2007

Chinese Scholar Huang Tsang, who visited Nalanda University in the 7th century AD, described the excellence of Nalanda's education system and purity of its monastic life, in detail in his writings. He had stated that the university was spread over a 16 km area. However, hardly 1.6 sq km has been excavated so far.

Urdu-medium UG, PG programmes

Urdu-medium UG, PG programmes

Rediff.com21 May 2009

Maulana Azad National Urdu University (A central university established by an Act of Parliament in the year 1998) invites applications.

LIVE! Day 2 of Budget session in Parliament

LIVE! Day 2 of Budget session in Parliament

Rediff.com24 Feb 2016

The government and the Opposition have agreed to debate the JNU controversy in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Day 2 of Parliament's Budget session. At a meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to BJP lawmakers was -- "debate aggressively".

LIVE! Day 2 of Budget session in Parliament

LIVE! Day 2 of Budget session in Parliament

Rediff.com24 Feb 2016

The government and the Opposition have agreed to debate the JNU controversy in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Day 2 of Parliament's Budget session. At a meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to BJP lawmakers was -- "debate aggressively".