Ending the logjam persisting for 42 days in the wake of the rape and murder of a young doctor at RG Kar hospital, the agitating medics withdrew the 'cease work' after holding a march to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office in Salt Lake in Kolkata from the state health department's headquarters, where they had been demonstrating for over a week.
The Madras Christian College (MCC) Class of 1983 celebrates the Silver Jubilee of its graduation.
'What rules are we talking about here? When I sought admission to the college, nowhere in the prospectus or any other paper was it mentioned that it is against the rules to wear a headscarf.'
The Trinamool Congress on Thursday refuted accusations of a police cover-up by the parents of the woman doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered, insisting that a newly surfaced video contradicts their claims by showing the family previously satisfied with the investigation.
The top court also questioned the West Bengal government's decision to hire contractual employees for the protection of doctors and other staff in hospitals.
What was once a rite of initiation into the college fold, where senior college students made freshers sing to trees or dance atop a car before becoming friends for life, has turned into something brutal, vicious and tragic. We want you, our readers, to share your experiences, opinions and comments with regards to ragging and its effects on youngsters.
"I came to meet you as your 'didi' not as the chief minister," she said.
Manju Nichani, Principal and honorary Director of K C College of Management Studies, Mumbai, writes to students on how to tackle freshman year in college.
The residents or junior doctors went on strike on Tuesday when agitated relatives of a patient, who had died during treatment, clashed with the medicos.
A bench of Justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh asked the UGC to furnish the details of steps taken on a plea by the mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi.
TMCP state unit president Trinankur Bhattacharya said the organisation will take strict action if any of its members was found to be involved in the incident.
An analysis of data indicated that while the candidates who allegedly benefitted from the paper leak and other irregularities have not done well, some centres have a high concentration of well-performing students.
Despite their opposition based on ideology, both the political Right and the political Left possess similar behaviour, observes Shyam G Menon.
Two student entrepreneurs share how they build a successful company even as they prepare for their final year engineering exams.
'In Parliament, he was the one person who stood for democracy and secularism even when the principal Opposition party was not very forthright in taking on the BJP and RSS.'
Doctors treating Indian death row convict Sarbajit Singh, comatose in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault last week, on Tuesday said his condition had deteriorated.
The Mithila University on Saturday cancelled examination at Samastipur Women's College after visuals of rampant cheating during BA Part II examination were aired by television channels.
After the ambitious Four Year Undergraduate programme became history for the Delhi University, the chaos and confusion over the course seems to have settled down as the new academic session is all set to begin on Monday.
Under-19 World Cup-winning captain Unmukt Chand is hopeful that his attendance problem in St Stephen's College will be sorted out amicably within the next few days.
'Although there is a visible dent in TMC's urban votes, especially among women, the CPI-M and the BJP are unlikely to benefit from this'
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.
Some officials, I am told, do not even have an email address and for them, papers placed on a cardboard file and wrapped in the horizontal four-inch flaps and a thread are quite the official thing. An email which demands quick attention can stare him/her in the face unlike a file that can pile up with others on some remote shelf in the office, sometimes almost forgotten.
Mukhtar Ansari was subjected to slow poisoning in jail, Umar Ansari, the son of the gangster-turned-politician who died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Banda, alleged early Friday.
GMC principal Shashi Sudhan Sharma also requested senior superintendent of police, Jammu, to take all precautionary measures, including deployment of additional police personnel around the hostel and college premises, to avoid any law and order problem.
Marking an end to his tenure as St Stephen's principal, the college will on Sunday bid farewell to Valson Thampu who referred to himself as "controversy's child".
Kiran Bajaj, principal of Greenlawns High School, Mumbai, talks about easing the transition from school to college.
Six more people succumbed to the deadly Japanese encephalitis in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, taking the toll upto 99.
People had also started gathering at Mukhtar Ansari's residence in Ghazipur and there was a large deployment of security personnel around the house.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the principal and registrar of a Himachal Pradesh medical college, asking them why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for the death of Aman Kachroo, who was allegedly killed after being brutally ragged by his seniors. Kachroo, 19, died on March 8 after he was allegedly beaten up by four of his seniors at the Rajendra Prasad Medical College in Kangra. The accused have been arrested.
Dr Bhupendra Sharma will now take over as the nodal officer of pediatric department.
Sundar, who reached the paramedical college on Thursday morning, accompanied by Udupi district Superintendent of Police Akshay Hakay Machhindra and other officials of the commission, is holding talks with the college management, the victim and the students involved in the incident as part of her enquiry.
The situation was brought under control after district magistrate Rajesh Kumar and superintendent of police Anil Kishore Yadav assured the agitated students to look into the matter.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday extended its support to a protest organised by Delhi University teachers, employees and students' unions over police inaction into allegations of sexual harassment against a Delhi University college principal by a sacked employee who later committed suicide.
Protesting the murder of their colleague and the lack of security at the Assam Medical College Hospital, junior doctors continued their strike for the fourth consecutive day. Anurag Kashyap reports on the matter.
Scenes of angry parents of such children arguing with police and school authorities and an instance of a student trying to flaunt a saffron scarf as an apparent retaliation were also reported.
"The consequence of the demand to declare Hijab as an essential religious practice is huge because there is an element of compulsion or else you will be expelled from the community," Navadgi told the court.
Social media or mass media have become weapons of mass distraction, but there are no concerted efforts yet to tackle them, Justice Mahesh Sonak of the Goa bench of the Bombay high court said on Saturday.
Brinda examines some alarming aspects of religious fanaticism through the narrative engine of a well-oiled serial killer mystery, observes Arjun Menon.
A controversy erupted over the event as purported video clips emerged showing liquor cartons being ferried in ambulances and Russian dancers performing on stage.
Among the fatalities recorded on Friday, the maximum 17 were from Uttar Pradesh, 14 from Bihar, five from Odisha and four from Jharkhand, where officials said more than 1,300 people are hospitalised with heatstroke conditions.
