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TN college sealed after furore over suicide of three medical students
25-Jan-2016
• 25 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • KV Lakshmana klakshmana@hindustantimes.com THE PARENTS ALLEGED THAT IT IS A CASE OF MURDER, BUT THE STATE POLICE HAVE REGISTERED A CASE OF SUICIDE AND STARTED INVESTIGATION CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday sealed a private medical college in Villupuram after huge protests by parents of…
Rohith family rejects relief
24-Jan-2016
Jan 24, 2016 | PTI| Hyderabad Agitating students term Modi’s remarks ‘insulting’ Agitating students of Hyderabad central Univers-ity on Saturday termed as “insulting” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks over the suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula even as the student’s distraught family rejected the Rs 8 lakh ex-gratia relief offered by the institution. The students…
Tamil Nadu suicide: Post-mortem of one student underway, investigation team seal Medical college
24-Jan-2016
Three girl students of SVS Yoga Medical College at Kallakurichi near Villupuram in Tamil Nadu committed suicide on Saturday evening accusing the administration of charging excess fees and “torture”. By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: January 24, 2016 8:28 pm The post-mortem on the body of one of the three girl students…
V K Singh: Award wapsi was a conspiracy
24-Jan-2016
Earlier, when repeatedly asked about his comment on Johar’s remark, he reportedly admonished media to go and beat up Johar instead of chasing him for answer By Press Trust of India on January 24, 2016 at 10:00 AM Jodhpur, Jan 23 Union Minister V K Singh today termed as conspiracy the return of the awards…
Pune: Son was burnt alive after he said he was Hindu, alleges teen’s father
23-Jan-2016
Jan 23, 2016 | • pune Sawan sustained severe burns when accused set him ablaze with petrol. Pune: Days after a 17-year-old ragpicker was allegedly murdered by three persons here after setting him afire, his father and some right-wing activists claimed he was killed because he was a ‘Hindu’ and the brutality meted out to…
Case on VC for harassing dalit student
23-Jan-2016
Jan 23, 2016 – Sanjay Bohra | • Jaipur Close on the heels of Hyderabad University scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide, yet another dalit student, this time in Rajasthan, has complained of harassment by the vice-chancellor and some senior professors. On the direction of a local court, the police has registered a case against them for…
Hyderabad scholar death: HRD to set up judicial commission on suicide
23-Jan-2016
Jan 23, 2016 – Namrata Biji Ahuja and Nitin Mahajan | New Delhi State government confirms Rohith was a dalit Trouble is brewing for the Narendra Modi government as the Telangana government report sent to the Centre has reaffirmed that the deceased student, who committed suicide at Hyderabad Central University, was a dalit and the…
Linking caste politics and political suicides
22-Jan-2016
Friday, 22 January 2016 | Priyadarshi Dutta | in Edit Rohith Vemula was only the latest in a long line of Hyderabad college students who committed suicide. Yet, the politicisation of his death has less to do with this tragedy and more to do with his Dalit activism The suicide of 26-year old Rohith Chakravarthi…
Rohith Vemula’s suicide exposes caste fault lines in Hyderabad University
22-Jan-2016
Kuruma Sangham president Y Mallesh said that Dattatreya was being unnecessarily targeted over Rohith’s suicide. Written by Sreenivas Janyala | Hyderabad | Published:January 22, 2016 2:17 am The suicide of Rohith Vemula is beginning to fuel caste hostilities on the campus. After contending that Rohith was not an SC — a claim refuted by his…
Uber cab driver arrested for allegedly molesting woman journalist in Noida
22-Jan-2016
Jan 22, 2016 | PTI|Noida The woman journalist suspected that the cab driver was taking her through a wrong route. Noida: A woman journalist has accused an Uber cab driver of molesting her while she was on her way from Delhi to Noida on Wednesday night. The cab driver has been arrested. According to the…