"He is accused of delivering seditious speeches and inciting a particular section of community to indulge in unlawful activities, detrimental to sovereignty and integrity of the nation," the chargesheet said. "In the garb of protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act, he exhorted people of a particular community to block the highways leading to the major cities and resort to 'Chakka Jam', thereby disrupting normal life," it said.
A Delhi high court bench headed by Justice Mukta Gupta disposed of Imam's appeal for stay and requested the lower court to conclude on a "short date" the examination of the witnesses on which there is no dispute between the parties.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will kick off his Mission UP 2012 in Bahraich on Monday. Youth Congress president Ashok Tanwar has said Gandhi would address 600 youth who have been shortlisted from the district.
Two video journalists, who allegedly conducted a sting operation on the gay Aligarh Muslim University professor, were on Monday arrested in Aligarh on charges of forcibly entering his house on February 8 and causing physical harm to him.
Aligarh Muslim University professor Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, who was suspended after being allegedly caught having consensual sex with a rickshaw-puller in his campus home, was found dead at his residence.
If any party gives me a ticket I am ready, Khan said .
Whenever the history of India's National Law Schools is written, N R Madhava Menon's name will be deeply inscribed in it, says Mohammad Zeeshan Ahmad.
Over 300 eminent personalities from the creative and scholarly community of India, including actor Naseeruddin Shah, filmmaker Mira Nair, vocalist TM Krishna, author Amitav Ghosh and historian Romila Thapar have expressed solidarity with the students and others protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens. Writers Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, actors Ratna Patak Shah, Jaaved Jafferi, Nandita Das, Lillete Dubey, sociologist Ashis Nandy, activists Sohail Hashmi and Shabnam Hashmi were also among the signatories.
Authorities shut down schools and other educational institutions in north Kashmir as a precautionary measure for maintaining law and order.
The committee has concluded that the alleged victim was a creation of the conspiracy as she had claimed that her name had been dragged into the controversy with malafide intentions.
Imam is accused of offenses relating to sedition, promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, imputations prejudicial to national integration, and public mischief under the Indian Penal Code, and indulging in unlawful activities under the UAPA.
A group of young Muslim women and a man here has decided to break fresh ground by moving for social reform and gender equality from within the community rather than defying its traditions and confines. Five women -- a qazi and four witnesses -- will solemnise the union of Naesh Hasan and her fiance. Hasan is founder member of the Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, a social organisation.
All India Management Association-Centre For Management Services invites applications for its distance education Doctorate in Business Administration Programme.
The students ransacked vice-chancellor's office last week
AMUTA Secretary Dr Abdus felt, 'It appears that the university and district administration have not moved an inch towards working out the two murders, reflecting their complacency and non-seriousness about the matter.'
Religion does not matter when it comes to becoming the prime minister and a Muslim can get the top job provided he is the most capable person for it, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said in Aligarh on Monday.
Kumar and others, including former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, were accused of raising anti-India slogans.
According to police, it appears to be a case of murder due to monetary and property dispute and they are searching for both the accused.
A student of the Aligarh Muslim University, who was wanted in connection with the recent incidents of violence in the campus, was arrested from his hometown Khalilabad in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, said the police.
A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of the council held to review steps for overhauling the present university administrative and security steps.
"Two special bogies have been attached to each train passing through Aligarh. The staff has made arrangements to provide food for the students who are still packing their bags. Even financial aid is being provided by the university," Aziz added.
Angry over the killing of an engineering student, hundreds of students of the Aligarh Muslim University went on a rampage at the university campus.
RAF personnel had been deployed around the university campus on Wednesday as a precautionary measure amid fears that the sensitive issue might snowball.
On the issue of AMU, Dr Singh said his government had all along maintained that it would restore the minority status of the 125-year-old university.
Several restrictions on tax deductions for charity are no longer appropriate today.
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court quashed the minority status of AMU after ruling that the Parliament had no jurisdiction to restore it through the AMU Amendment Act, 1981.
The award was presented to Helmunt Neunzert for his 'pioneering contribution' to industrial and applied mathematics.
Vice-Chancellor P K Abdul Azis insisted that the university would be opened only after proper security arrangements were ensured. For the first time in its history the university demanded a huge deployment of paramilitary forces within the campus.
Many leaders argued that as the elections got over, Muslims and their problems were forgotten. Their anti-BJP stance is beneficial only for the party opposing the BJP and not to Muslims, they pointed out
All 'right-thinking citizens' should rally behind Setalvad, they said.
The reason is that a similar appeal was pending before the High Court.\n
Setting up an in-house radio station for enhanced communication between students and the authorities, removal of overnight tea stalls and eateries inside the campus were some of the other steps spelt out by the vice chancellor of the university.
Parents of several students -- particularly girls -- had to rush to Aligarh to take their wards back home.
The six months include the three months already spent in detention. The NSA allows preventive detention for up to a year.
The death toll in the Aligarh hooch tragedy went up to 22 on Saturday, and 28 more people are still in critical condition, an official said in Aligarh.
The Supreme Court Monday asked Aligarh Muslim University not to implement the decision to reserve 50 per cent quota for students belonging to minority community till the pendancy of the matter.
Zarin's visit will take her to her ancestral home in the walled city and to Aligarh and Lucknow.
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