At least seven people were killed and one person critically injured after shootings were reported from two locations in the Half Moon Bay area in north California of the United States, CNN reported citing local officials who said that a 67-year-old suspect is now in custody.
'If we have to restrict and fight terrorism, first and foremost, we have to ensure communal harmony in the country.'
At least 10 students, including six of Indian origin, were injured in two separate incidents in London after a gang of white and black youth attacked Asian Muslim students at a University campus last week.
The condition of the 20-year-old Indian student, who was brutally attacked on December 29, remains critical but he was responding to medicine well, according to his brother.
A student opened fire on his friends in a school cafeteria in north Seattle, killing at least one person and injuring several others before killing himself. Four students, including two cousins of the gunman, were shot in the head, with three severely wounded at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.
Two students were injured on Monday morning when a fire broke out in an MCD school in south-west Delhi, fire brigade officials said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled central government alleging that there were attempts to suppress the cause of the train accident in Odisha.
A 33-year-old PhD scholar from Manipur was found murdered with his neck slashed at his home in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area on Wednesday night.
Nikhil Kumar, a class 10 student at a local inter-college on Phaphond Road in Achalda police station area, was allegedly thrashed by his social sciences teacher Ashwini Singh on September 7 for making mistakes in a test.
A group of students from the Northeast on Saturday staged a protest in New Delhi against the death of an Arunachal Pradesh MLA's son after being allegedly beaten up by some shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar.
The autopsy report of Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania, whose death here sparked an outrage, has revealed that he succumbed due to injuries on his head and face caused by a blunt object.
With no signs of improvement in the situation in Kashmir, community schools are the only hope for students in the valley.
"A poorly designed backpack forces muscles into an unnatural, asymmetrical, position to support the load. This causes some muscles to stretch and some to tighten to compensate, leading to muscle spasm and pain," Professor Kolt said.
Nine students and a teacher were drowned at Vedaranyam, Tamil Nadu on Thursday after the school van carrying them fell into a pond.
As many as 40 pro-Telangana students were on Tuesday taken into preventive custody in different parts of the city even as tension prevailed on the Osmania University campus with the protesting students indulging in stone throwing on security forces.
The students, camping outside the UGC office since Wednesday demanding revocation of the move, alleged they were lathi-charged and about 100 of them detained when they tried to go inside to meet the officials.
A police sub-inspector, who was critically injured in exchange of fire with suspected SIMI cadres in Nalgonda district last week, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday even as combing operation to nab more members of the banned outfit continued for the fourth day.
Officials said there were no reports so far of any loss of life or damage to property.
A day after a scuffle between agitating wrestlers and police personnel, the police Thursday beefed up security and surveillance at Jantar Mantar and at Delhi borders, deploying additional manpower, bolstering CCTV coverage and raising barricades to prevent the entry of farmers who were coming to support the grapplers.
Das, a law graduate, was in politics from his college days and was elected as the Students' Union president at Gangadhar Meher College at Sambalpur, one of the oldest colleges in western Odisha.
The family of a 19-year-old Indian-origin student, who was found dead in February under mysterious circumstances in the US, have alleged foul play and disputed the cause of his death given by the police.
Three out of the 20 students, who suffered more than 60 per cent burns following a school bus mishap at Navi Mumbai, are still critical, hospital authorities said on Friday.
It was in the deep hours of Wednesday night Namboori Tilak Varma shared the news of his India selection to his parents, Nagaraju and Gayatri Devi, over a video call.
A 23-year-old student of Jawaharlal Nehru University attacked a woman friend inside a classroom with an axe, leaving her severely injured before taking his own life by consuming poison and slitting his throat on Monday.
In its poll manifesto for May 10 assembly polls in Karnataka, the Congress said it is committed to take firm and decisive action against individuals and organisations such as the Bajrang Dal and the Popular Front of India (PFI) "spreading hatred" among communities on grounds of caste and religion.
V Jyotirmayee Nagasaibabu, the Vijayawada-origin student had died of head injuries at Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, on Tuesday evening. The West Midlands Police spokesman told PTI that the unidentified man, 24, was arrested on suspicion of the murder and was currently helping the police with their inquiry. This is the second incident of murder involving an Indian in the Birmingham area within the last three years.
A nine-year-old Dalit boy died on Saturday allegedly after he was beaten up by a teacher for touching a drinking water pot in a private school in Jalore district of Rajasthan, police said.
In a memorandum submitted to Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey, the 21 opposition MPs who signed the document demanded urgent rehabilitation and resettlement of the affected people to bring peace and harmony to the state.
The inquiry revealed that though the school was recognised up to Class VIII by the Education Directorate, it ran unauthorised classes in violation of rule 45(1) of the DSEAR-73, which prohibits opening of new classes without prior approval of competent authority. The enquiry also revealed that Rinki was physically abused by the teacher and Principal of the school due to which she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Agrasen Hospital for blood clotting in brain.
The five women were arrested after interrogation by the police team probing the case, a police official told PTI.
ABVP leader Nandanam Susheel Kumar, who has been accused of abetting suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, demanded a "fair" inquiry.
A 22-year-old student from Hyderabad was killed in a freak car accident in the United States. Naresh Dacha, first year MS (EE) student at Wright State University, was driving from his home to the university yesterday morning along with his friend Varun when his car hit a tree on Route 22 in Dayton, Ohio.
Hot tea was allegedly poured on a Std IV student as a punishment for being absent at a government-aided school in north Kolkata.
a horrifying case of corporal punishment, a 10-year-old boy died after being allegedly beaten up by his headmaster on the suspicion of stealing a pen in Baddupur area of Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh.
A BJP leader in Bihar on Thursday died while taking part in a 'Vidhan Sabha march' against the state's Nitish Kumar government, evoking allegations from senior party leaders that he was "killed in a brutal lathi charge".
The report urged the top court that the matter may be taken up by the petitioners and other parties with utmost sensitivity as any misinformation or rumour or even suspicion may aggravate the situation in Manipur, where things are slowly returning to normal with the concerted efforts of the central and the state governments.
Violence broke out in Patiala house court complex when groups of lawyers attacked journalists, students and teachers of the JNU.
What drives Pakistani men to join its military, despite the toll it takes on them?
The gunman, dressed in a black trenchcoat and armed with a pistol equipped with an extended magazine and smoke grenades, was found dead inside the Borderline Bar and Grill.
Anishka was arrested on Thursday, while her father, also an accused in the case, was still at large. The Malabar Hill police station had registered an FIR on February 20 on Amruta Fadnavis's complaint.
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