Tension gripped Osmania University campus on Tuesday with another student committing suicide by setting himself ablaze in protest against the delay in formation of Telangana.
The West Bengal government on Thursday said it was formulating rules to ensure that schools do not create fear among students as physical and mental torture pose hindrance to their natural development.
She left behind a note, saying that she dreamt of becoming a doctor but the questions in NEET were too difficult for her to even understand.
On August 13, 2017, the victim went to a restaurant, around 300 metres from the university campus, with his friends in the evening but he did not return, and his body was found the next morning near a railway track.
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The squatted there, raised slogans against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test and demanded justice for Anitha, a Dalit medical aspirant and anti-NEET court petitioner who committed suicide on Friday.
Principal Sunirmal Chakravarti and three teachers -- Garnian, Partho Dutta and David Raun -- were arrested on Monday morning, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Damayanti Sen said. The class VIII student had killed himself on February 12, four days after being caned by the principal. He got the caning along with two other boys for playing truant, the principal had said
The Congress said that the prime minister must tell his other ministers these kinds of action are not permissible.
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Of the four assistant sub-inspectors, three are from Kaliaganj Police Station and one is from Raiganj Police Station.
Eight members of an Al Qaeda suicide squad, including their local handler, have been arrested by Pakistani security agencies in past week, officials said.
Sixteen-year-old Ashwini, a student of class ninth at the Aikala High School in Kinnigoli, along with her friend Mahadevi had gone to Maroor near Moodabidri in a bus to meet Saleem, a conductor-cum owner of the bus on Tuesday afternoon. A group of suspected Sangh Parivar activists stopped the bus and took the three to Maroor police station. Police then called Ashwini's parents and handed her over to them.
An eight-year-old Pakistani girl was allegedly kidnapped by militants who forced her to wear a suicide vest to attack security forces in the country's northwest, police said Monday.
The situation was tensed up in Telangana region on Wednesday as police baton-charged members of the Students Action Committee, who had called for a shutdown over the suicide committed by students for the Telangana cause and demanded resignations of elected representatives from the region.
'The 41 men who died, they are also somebody's sons or brothers. It is wrong.'
Police said it has been found during preliminary investigation that a woman student, a hosteller, had shared her own video with a youth from Himachal Pradesh whose role is also under the scanner.
Hundreds of students took control of the Lal Masjid and drove out the government-appointed cleric from the mosque.
A group of students carrying placards and raising slogans protested in the tense University campus on Wednesday morning.
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the National Democratic Alliance government of "suppressing" students' voice as he visited the JNU campus to express solidarity with them, a day after the arrest of its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case.
Police prevented suicide bids by four Tibetans while hundreds more staged a hunger strike during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit in Mumbai on Thursday to protest the "forcible" occupation of Tibet by Beijing.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh on Friday broke down on national television when deceased farmer Gajendra Singh's daughter posed questions to him about her father's death at a rally which the party had organised.
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Six of the seven students of the Hyderabad Central University, on hunger strike to protest the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, have been shifted to a health centre even as the agitators today took out a march to the residence of the interim head of the institution.
Also, a court in Mohali's Kharar sent the three accused, including the woman student, to seven-day police remand.
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"Dr Vipin Srivastava who took charge as the interim vice-chancellor of Hyderabad Central University has proceeded for leave from the afternoon of January 29 and the next senior most professor Dr M Pariasamy will perform the duties of the V-C till further orders," a university official said.
Most of the students at the army-run school in Peshawar were shot in the head from point blank range by the ruthless Taliban suicide attackers, in one of the most gruesome attacks against children in recent years.
The letter purportedly written by Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar of University of Hyderabad, before he committed suicide, has been sent to the forensic lab for analysis as reports emerged about an entire paragraph that had been scratched off the note.
'Today, the BJP is using power in such a manner that they not only crush the Opposition, but even their own supporters can't rebel.'
Eshwarappa would turn 75 in June, the unofficial age bar in the BJP for leaders to contest polls and hold official positions.
A 13-year-old girl committed suicide after being allegedly eve teased by some youths in West Bengal's Burdwan district, police said on Tuesday.
The AISA, SFI, DSF and AISF have come together to form the 'United Left' alliance.
A suicide attack on a procession organised by Shia students and subsequent firing by protesters at Quetta in southwest Pakistan on Friday killed over 50 people and injured more than 100 others, hours after two terrorist attacks left as many persons dead in the northwest.
A 21-year-old student committed suicide by hanging herself in Patna after failing in one subject, police sources said on Tuesday. The police have recovered the body of Saloni Kumari from the Adarsh Girls' Hostel on Boring Canal Road under Buddha Colony police station.
Rahul Gandhi slammed the Modi government, accusing it of being against farmers, labourers, students and the poor.
At least 15 suicides took place every hour in the country during last year, which saw over 1.31 lakh people ending their lives, with government data also noting that Maharashtra saw the highest number of such cases while Chennai heads the list among cities.
The Bethel Memorial Church has been the target of a terrorist attack in the past.
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