With assaults on Indians in Australia showing no let-up, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna is expected to take up the issue with his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith whom he will meet on the sidelines of a conference in London later this week.
An Indian student was attacked by a group of teenage boys who tried to snatch his money while he was walking home from his part-time job, amid Australian police's claim that assault cases against the community have come down following tough action against crime.
BJP MLA O P Sharma, who was caught on camera beating a Communist Party of India activist at Patiala House court three days back, was arrested on Thursday.
Delhi Police have registered a case in connection with alleged assault on an advocate after at Patiala House court for speaking in favour of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
The father of the six-year-old boy, who was found dead in Ryan International School, today alleged that he was sexually assaulted before being done to death.
Patna Additional District Magistrate K K Singh, who beat up a teaching job aspirant during a protest on August 22, was removed from the post with immediate effect on Wednesday.
The security agencies have been warning that militants belonging to United National Liberation Front, People's Liberation Army and other banned groups had become part of the mobs and carrying out sneak attacks on security forces as well as giving directions to the agitators.
Ahmed, 27, a student of School of Biotechnology at Jawaharlal Nehru University went missing on October 15 following an on-campus scuffle allegedly with members of ABVP.
In the third such incident in the past four months, a three-year-old girl student was allegedly sexually abused inside a private school in Bangalore.
A 23-year-old Indian student was beaten up for the second time in a fortnight by a group of youths in Melbourne -- the 11th person from India to be assaulted within one month in Australia.
A students' march against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Saturday featured issues beyond free speech, with "simmering discontent" against the Narendra Modi government finding expression through colours, posters and poetry.
"Horrifying", "heartbreaking" and "barbaric" is how many in the film industry, including actors-filmmakers Anil Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Rajkummar Rao, Twinkle Khanna, Anurag Kashyap and Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, described the Sunday night violence at the Jawaharlal Nehru University while demanding that the perpetrators are brought to justice.
The 11 people were discharged on February 4 by the trial court, which said they were made 'scapegoats' by police and that dissent has to be encouraged, not stifled.
The Information and Broadcasting ministry has not yet responded on the demand of the Film and Television Institute of India students to remove television actor and Bharatiya Janata Party member Gajendra Chauhan from the post of chairman of its governing council even as their strike entered the fourth day on Monday.
Rajneesh Joga is believed to have been thrown out of his cab by a man on the run from police.
Despite their opposition based on ideology, both the political Right and the political Left possess similar behaviour, observes Shyam G Menon.
The woman is a first-year PhD student and she has alleged that Anmol Ratan, a JNU student and AISA activist raped her on Saturday, police said.
The five women were arrested after interrogation by the police team probing the case, a police official told PTI.
Two students from Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have become the latest victims of attacks on Indians in Australia when they were assaulted by a group of men separately, even as Canberra assured New Delhi of the safety and security of Indians.
A 24-year-old Indian student from Gujarat was attacked by a group of men here, the latest in a spate of racial assaults targeting the community members in Australia.
The student went to discuss his poor grades with his assistant professor and ended up stabbing her in the neck.
Nikhil Dhar had been flunking out of school and feared he would be deported.
Two boys allegedly raped their 13-year-old classmate inside the classroom of their civic-run school in Matunga area of Mumbai, after which the police registered a case against them, an official said on Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the American capital on Saturday for the "March for Our Lives" to support tougher gun controls and protest Congress's refusal to consider them. The event is being led by the student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14 when 17 were slaughtered by a teenage gunman carrying a legally-purchased AR-15.
After he was set free, the seer was staying at the Virakta Math in Davangere, from where he was arrested by the Chitradurga police on on Monday.
'The time has come for all those believe in a democratic India to stand up and be counted and to make a choice.'
...the BJP's template of operation was different or if the Centre and the state were ruled by dissimilar parties? asks Shyam G Menon.
An office assistant, who was arrested for the sexual assault of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl at a Bangalore school, was on Sunday remanded to six days police custody by a magisterial court.
Somalia-based Al Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
This was the 15th attack on Indian students in Australia in less than a month.
"Due to personal reasons, the undersigned hereby recuses from hearing the matter. Accordingly, let the present matter be put up before the principal district and sessions judge, southeast district, Saket court, for February 13 at 12 pm with a request to transfer the matter," the judge said in an order passed on Friday.
Tamil Nadu's latest budget offers path-breaking initiatives and major boost for social infrastructure, which other state governments are sure to follow in the coming years, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
The CBI said the interrogation was needed to reconstruct the scene of crime, to unearth conspiracy, if any, and to collect any other evidence related to the case.
A minor student of Don Bosco School at Yerwada in Pune was molested allegedly by its vice-principal, who was arrested on Tuesday after public outrage and protests outside the educational institution.
A petition filed by Swapnil Tripathi, a final year student studying at the National Law University, Jodhpur, prompted the Supreme Court to allow live streaming of the opaque proceedings within.
A case was registered against Sanjay's son Bandi Bhagirath Sai based on a complaint filed by the Mahindra University, where both study - after the videos of the alleged assault went viral.
Alleging "delay in justice" to Hyderabad University research scholar Rohith Vemula, 150 protesting students from universities across Delhi who were detained earlier on Wednesday decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike at Parliament Street police station in New Delhi.
The apex court, while rejecting Asaram's regular bail plea, noted that the petition was based on a communication issued by Jail Superintendent of Jodhpur Central jail.
A girl, around 12 years of age, was found bleeding on a street in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh, and her medical examination confirmed that she had been raped, police said on Wednesday.
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