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Hundreds of students protested near the Jawaharlal Nehru University here on Monday against the administration’s “anti-students” policy. Students wanted to march towards the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), where Vice President Venkaiah Naidu is addressing the university’s convocation at an auditorium. The gates of the AICTE, around 3 km from the JNU, were locked and the security personnel ...

The Meteorological (MeT) department has predicted rain and snowfall in Himachal Pradesh this weekend. Rain and snowfall may occur at isolated places in the high hills, while rainfall and thunderstorm may take place in middle hills from November 14 to 16, Shimla MeT Centre Director Manmohan Singh said on Sunday. With minus 6.9 degrees Celsius, tribal district Lahaul and Spiti’s ...

A Goa-bound man was apprehended at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying 10 bullets in his baggage, an official said. Passenger R P Mishra was going through security checks at the Indira Gandhi International Airport around 11 am on Friday when a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel detected “bullet-like objects” in his hand baggage, he said. “Ten live bullets ...

The hearing in the politically and religiously sensitive decades-old temple-mosque land dispute in Ayodhya was the second longest proceedings in the history of the Supreme Court which had lasted for 40 days. The high voltage hearing in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute involving 2.77 acres of land had commenced on August 6 and concluded on October 16, and the apex ...

Alternative land for mosque The Supreme Court on Saturday paved the way for the construction of a Ram Temple by a Trust at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot an alternative 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a “prominent” place in the holy town in Uttar Pradesh. In ...

The second edition of the ‘Bajaj Allianz Pune Half Marathon’ will be held on December 22, the organisers announced on Friday. Apart from the half marathon (21.1 km), the other three runs are – 10 km run, 5 km, and 3 km. Pradeep Singh (1:06:08) and Manisha Salunkhe (1:22:20) had won the first edition of half marathon in the men’s ...

Angry over the dispute with lawyers at Tis Hazari Court, the policemen ended the picket after about 11 hours. After assurances from top officials, the policemen decided to end the picket. An official said that the demands of the protesting policemen have been accepted. However, they have not received the written assurance they were seeking. In fact, the dispute between ...

Vigyanika-International Science Literature Festival, being organised as part of the 5th India International Science Festival (IISF) 2019 at Kolkata, will also feature a Science Book Fair where more than thirty publishers will display their scientific publications. IISF 2019 is an annual event organised jointly by the Ministry of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences and Vijnana Bharati (Vibha). The fifth ...

Pakistani troops shelled Indian forward posts and villages in three sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir in violation of the ceasefire on Saturday, a defence spokesman said. Indian troops guarding the border retaliated befittingly and the exchange of fire continued for nearly two hours. There was, however, no casualty on the Indian ...

Union Minister of Home Affairs, Amit Shah graced the ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ celebrations as Chief Guest and flagged off the ‘Run For Unity’ at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, in New Delhi today. Earlier Shah paid floral tributes at the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Patel Chowk, in New Delhi. Addressing the gathering on the occasion Shah said that ...