Authorities asserted that lunch is served to students of any religion 'on demand' during the holy month.
The HC directed the UP chief secy and DGP, the DG of the CRPF, the VC and registrar of the University to adhere to the recommendations of the NHRC, including paying compensation to six students who were grievously hurt in police action.
The farmers were demanding higher compensation, equivalent to the one given to peasants in Noida, against acquisition of their land for the development of the township.
'Mumbai is very different from the rest of India. It can be ruthless if you don't have work or friends. The struggle time and times of disappointment are horrific and can break you.'
Gandhi earlier took a dig at Modi saying he wanted to "congratulate" him on winning the "world famous" Philip Kotler Presidential award.
A fundraiser for the Aligarh Muslim University hosted in California saw keynote speakers talk about the plight of Indian Muslims and a way out.
True, Azam Khan is being targeted rather disproportionately and also because of his Muslim identity. That must be protested and resisted. But to say that he is a big messiah, and his profit-making educational enterprise is an issue concerning all Muslims of India, is absolutely unjustified, assert Mohammad Sajjad and Md Mohammad Zeeshan Ahmad.
It is ironic that Raja Mahendra Pratap's Jat connection is being used for vote bank politics. He could not have cared less for his caste.' 'He was aware of the hold caste had on people's lives, and always rose above this kind of narrow thinking.' 'He mentions that once when he landed at Dwarka the priests asked him about his caste. He replied that he was a sweeper. The priests denied him entry. "I did not care to visit it," he writes, "when it was surrounded by people who had no regard for humanity".'
Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti was Saturday arrested while on way to Aligarh town in Uttar Pradesh where at least six people have died in communal violence over the past three days.
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.
The protesters including girls and schoolchildren, belonging to the schools within the campus, began their march from the Purani Chungi and culminated it at the Babey Sir Syed gate of the university. They also raised slogans in support of Delhi's Shaheen Bagh protesters and the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
'All the characters have moved on from part one.' 'My character Srikant Tiwari is in a different zone.' 'Srikant is like R K Laxman's Common Man striving to keep a balance between his work and family.'
Tagging Adityanath, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said, "RESIGN. Instead of protecting the victim and her family, your government became complicit in depriving her of every single human right, even in death. You have no moral right to continue as chief minister."
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Majaz, based on the life of Asraul Haq Majaz, the John Keats of Urdu poetry, marks Talat Aziz's debut as a composer in Hindi cinema. The film could have been an excellent biopic had it stuck to the poet's poetic self rather than his unfulfilled love, says Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
Hands down, the star of the show is Rajkummar Rao, observes Sukanya Verma.
'The middle class needs to be made aware of the migrants's plight.'
Saloni Dhumne and Atreya Raghavan speak to young India to find out who their LGBTQ heroes are.
'Modi-Shah have understood the risks their cynical mixing of domestic political motivations with strategic national interests was soon going to become counterproductive asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Participating in the debate on the budget, leaders of parties like the Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party, Aam Aadmi Party and Left launched an all-out attack on the BJP government for allegedly selling off the country's assets and PSUs to big industrialists.
The high-profile rape cases in Hathras, in Unnao (2018) and Kathua (2018) show that the infrastructure slated under the Nirbhaya Fund is either absent or inefficient, reports Geetanjali Krishna.
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.
'The pure grace and proportion in Manoj Bajpayee's performance shows he knows his art inside out,' applauds Sukanya Verma.
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The accused was admitted to hospital with multiple injuries, where he succumbed.
'If better sense prevails, Muslims should offer the disputed land in Ayodhya back to the government.'
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'We are patriots who love India and the secular ideals it has always upheld.'
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Why it does not give reservation to the SC/ST communities? Asks the department.
Rediff reader Prof Dr Ahmad K shares an experience from his formative years.
This is for the first time that the state police have accepted that they have opened fire during the violent protests in the state. At least 17 people have been reported killed.
Students in large numbers hit the streets in Mumbai on Monday to express solidarity with the students of the Jamia Milia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University protesting against the amended Citizenship Act as agitation against the new law in other parts of the country found resonance in the metropolis.
Rushda is the 3rd patient in Aligarh to have died due to swine flu in the past 10 days.
A computer typed Hindi letter was received by the Government Railway Police in Aligarh on Sunday, which threatened to create havoc in Uttar Pradesh by triggering blasts in trains and other important places in Aligarh and Lucknow. According to police sources here, the name of the terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad was written at the end of the letter. Meanwhile, police officials are investigating the matter.
Thank you, Mr Prime Minister, for bringing colour to our colourless, drab, despair-ridden lives.
Violence erupted on the campus around last midnight, following a clash between two student groups leading to the death of Mahtab, DIG (AligarhRange) Govind Agarwal, who led the police operation, said.
Using the hashtag, SATYAGRAHagainstExamInCovid, many students also took to Twitter to appeal to the government to heed to their demands.
The party's research department team, which Rajya Sabha member M V Rajeev Gowda heads, has sifted through the suggestions received in the last five months, and the manifesto is slated to be released later this month, reports Archis Mohan.
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