Poet-lyricist Gulzar has accepted an offer to join the Tagore Chair at Panjab University as a professor.


Gulzar accepts Tagore Chair at Panjab University


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The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice at University of Hyderabad has reiterated the demand that union minister Bandaru Dattatreya and vice chancellor P. Appa Rao and three other accused be arrested for abetment of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide.


Hyderabad varsity JAC reiterates demand for arrests in Rohith case


Police detained Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena president Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga on Monday outside the NIT here when he tried to enter the campus.


Kranti Sena chief detained outside NIT in Srinagar


Two Indian medical students were stabbed to death in Ukraine while a third was warded in a hospital, authorities here said on Monday.


Two Indian students stabbed to death in Ukraine


Dozens of marchers trying to enter Jammu and Kashmir to express solidarity with protesting non-local students of NIT were stopped by authorities on Sunday and urged them call off the march.


Marchers to NIT stopped at J&K entry point


Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Friday held talks with representatives of non-local students of the NIT here in a bid to restore normalcy on the campus.


Ministers hold talks with NIT students in Kashmir


Experiential learning was central to the training methodology adopted to develop and strengthen the language skills of 25 Indian Army personnel who have just completed an intensive three-week course in Mandarin at the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) here.


Indian Army men pursue intensive Mandarin course at Jindal varsity


Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday urged the central government to set up a National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) in the state.


Naveen wants NIPER in Odisha to boost pharma sector


The VHP on Thursday demanded action against what it said were "jehadi students" and their supporters for the lathicharge on NIT students in Jammu and Kashmir and demanded a Supreme Court-appointed SIT probe into the matter.


Act against jehadi students in NIT lathicharge case: VHP


Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced the setting up of a Kosli dialect and literature research centre in Bargarh district which will be named after Padma Shri recipient Haldhar Nag.


Kosli dialect research centre named after Haldhar Nag


The visiting central team will resolve the problems faced by students protesting in the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Jammu and Kashmir soon, union minister Ram Shankar Katheria said here on Wednesday.


Central team will redress NIT students' grievances: Minister


A three-member team from the HRD ministry visiting the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Jammu and Kashmir will remain stationed there till the exams are over, union minister Smriti Irani said on Wednesday.


HRD team will stay in Srinagar till exams: Minister


Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday condemned the police action on students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar, saying the government "must stop this immediately".


Kejriwal condemns police action on NIT-Srinagar students


A day after tension erupt in National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, a two-member team of union human resource development ministry (HRD) will arrive here on Wednesday to assess the situation in the campus.


HRD team to take stock of situation in NIT Srinagar


Tension gripped the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar after a group of students clashed with police on Tuesday.


Tension grips NIT Srinagar as students clash with police


There is no clarity yet on the prospects of monsoon this year, but another weak rainy season could "spur up" prices of most farm commodities, Religare Commodity Research said on Tuesday.


Weak monsoon may spur up prices: Religare


The personal assistant (PA) of a Karnataka minister and two other people were arrested on Monday for leaking of the question paper for the pre-university course (PUC) chemistry re-exam on March 31, that led to its cancellation and re-scheduling to April 12.


Karnataka minister's assistant arrested for paper leak


A US school teacher accused of calling at class 7 student a terrorist during a class discussion on India has been sent on leave following a demand for her ouster from the student's family.


US teacher sent on leave for calling student 'terrorist'


A family in a US county is demanding that a teacher of a local middle school be fired after she called a class 7 student a 'terrorist'.


Family demands teacher's ouster after she called student 'terrorist'


Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the Jammu and Kashmir authorities to ensure safety of students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar where clashes erupted between two groups after the India-West Indies cricket match on Thursday.


Rajnath promises security after violence at Kashmir institute


The Central Intelligence Agency has admitted to accidentally leaving "explosive training material" under the hood of a Northern Virginia school bus for more than a week last month.

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