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Hyderabad, Oct 24 (Maxim News): Telangana is formulating long-term plans to generate employment for 5 lakh people by attracting new investments of Rs. 1 lakh crore in the life sciences sector by 2030, State IT and Industries minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu has revealed. Here To Join Us On WhatsApp The value of Telangana's life sciences sector economy is currently worth $80 billion, and it has been announced that a 'Comprehensive Life Sciences Policy' will be implemented soon with the aim of inc ...Read More >
NEW DELHI The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) elections are scheduled to be held on November 4, with results expected on November 6, according to a tentative poll schedule issued on Thursday. The announcement follows days of disruptions and heated exchanges between the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Left groups during the General Body Meetings (GBMs) over selection of the Election Committee (EC). The outgoing JNUSU has three office-bearers from the United ...Read More >
VIJAYAWADA: On the fifth day of his visit to Australia on Thursday, Minister for HRD and IT Nara Lokesh secured significant commitments across multiple sectors critical to the development of Andhra Pradesh. The day was marked by high-level meetings with academic leaders at the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania (UTAS), a crucial interaction with Victoria's Minister for Tourism and Sports, Steve Dimopoulos, and a strategic discussion with health insurance giant Bupa. In a sig ...Read More >
A Kannur-Kasaragod industrial corridor is also being envisioned in an area of over 2,000 acres focusing on sectors such as Fintech, IT-ITeS, AI and robotics, handlooms and logistics. The Kerala government on Thursday released a vision document with the goal of making the state an industrial powerhouse and a leading industrial investment destination in the country. Significant structural reforms would be initiated to accomplish this mission, the state's Minister for Industries, Law and Coir P Ra ...Read More >
New Delhi: Two cousins on their way to Murthal for dinner died after their SUV collided with a truck and caught fire in outer Delhi's Rani Bagh on Thursday. Police have caught the truck driver. The deceased were identified as Henry (20) and Dipanshu Chandela (21). They were BBA students. Both were from west Delhi. Henry's family lives in Meera Bagh and Dipanshu in Paschim Vihar. The fire department, which got a call around 3.13 am, sent three fire tenders and 18 fighters to the site near Madhuba ...Read More >
Minister Lokesh Naidu, who is on a seven-day visit there, says Australian govt may ease restrictions on import of prawns. Andhra Pradesh, where the shrimp industry has been hit by US President Donald Trump's tariffs, is looking to Australia as an alternative market. During a seven-day tour of the country, N Lokesh Naidu, the state's IT and HRD Minister and the son of CM Chandrababu Naidu, said the Australian government may ease restrictions on the import of prawns. Lokesh said that a long-stan ...Read More >
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh invited Griffith University in Australia to establish its India Centre in the state to promote joint research, student exchange and academic collaboration. The Minister, who is on a multi-city tour to promote Andhra Pradesh, visited Griffith University's Gold Coast campus and also held discussions in Brisbane to advance global education, innovation and sports partnerships. "I held discussions with Griffith University's Vice President (Global) M ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) The election committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union on Thursday released the tentative schedule for the 2025-26 student elections, with polling scheduled for November 4 and the results on November 6. The election process will begin on October 24 with the display of the tentative voter list and commencement of corrections in it from 9 am to 5 pm. Nomination forms will be issued on October 25 between 2 pm and 5 pm. The candidates can file their nomin ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Education, IT and Electronics minister Nara Lokesh, on the fourth day of his tour in Australia, held a series of high-level meetings for arriving at or elevating AP's partnership with Australia in education, trade, aquaculture, and sports infrastructure. During a meeting with Griffith University vice president (Global) Marnie Watson at the Gold Coast campus, Lokesh urged the establishment of a Griffith University India Centre in Andhra Pradesh to coordinate research, student exchang ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: London-based academician and researcher Francesca Orsini was on Monday denied entry into India upon arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, as she "was blacklisted in March this year for having violated the conditions of her tourist visa by undertaking research during her previous visits", according to govt sources.Orsini, Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in London, is a literary historian worki ...Read More >
New Delhi: Raising questions on the state's "involvement and interference" in conversion procedures under the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act and terming it conspicuous, Supreme Court Friday quashed criminal proceedings under the law against the vice-chancellor and other officials of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Science after finding infirmities in the probe.Without going into the validity of the UP law, which is pending in the apex court, a ben ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The School Teachers' Federation of India (STFI) has strongly condemned the shocking assault on Professor Sujit Kumar, Convenor of the Disciplinary Committee at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Delhi University. The incident occurred inside the principal's office in the presence of police officials and staff, raising serious concerns about the safety of educators on campus. The alleged attacker, Deepika Jha, Joint Secretary of the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) and a leader of t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 20 (ANI): The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student union, has formed an internal committee to investigate the alleged assault on a professor at Bhim Rao Ambedkar College in Delhi, an official statement said.This assault was reportedly committed by Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) Joint Secretary Deepika Jha, sparking widespread condemnation from teachers and student groups across the university. According to the Democratic Teachers Front (DTF), J ...Read More >
New Delhi: A day after police detained 28 Jawaharlal Nehru University students during a march, the JNU Teachers' Association (JNUTA) issued a statement condemning what it called "police brutality" and the university administration's "inaction". The students, including three JNUSU office bearers, were marching to the Vasant Kunj police station to file an FIR over recent violence on the campus when police allegedly forced them to stop. They were allegedly assaulted by the police. The students want ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Sunday listed the Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) which has now come into force, and his meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Mumbai to advance the India-UK trade and investment partnership as major highlights of his ministry in the last fortnight. "The Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) between India and the EFT ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) on Sunday strongly condemned what it described as "violence perpetrated by the Delhi Police" against JNU students and the detention of 28 of them, including three JNU Students Union office bearers, on Saturday. In a joint statement, JNUTA President Surajit Mazumdar and Secretary Meenakshi Sundriyal said, "Videos and other reports indicate the use of brutal force, leaving several students severely ...Read More >
Mangaluru: Foreign universities setting up campuses in Karnataka will push existing private universities to raise their standards, said MC Sudhakar, minister for higher education.The minister inaugurated the 25th Triennial Conference 2025 of the Xavier Board of Higher Education in India on Saturday. The four-day conference's theme is 'Empowering Minds, Embracing Change: Reimagining Higher Education for a Global Tomorrow.'Sudhakar discussed how the presence of foreign university campuses will ben ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The University of Delhi constituted a six-member inquiry committee to investigate the alleged assault on professor Sujit Kumar, a faculty member of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, by Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) joint secretary Deepika Jha and other members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The incident reportedly occurred inside the principal's office on Thursday, in the presence of police personnel. Kumar, who serves as the convener of the college's discipl ...Read More >
Pune: Office-bearers and workers of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest on Monday evening in front of Perugate police chowky and near Tilak Road. The demonstration followed an incident earlier in the afternoon where members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's student wing (MNSV) allegedly stormed the ABVP office over a dispute concerning posters.Vishrambaug police officials swiftly arrived at the scene to pacify the agitated ABVP workers. Later that night, the police initi ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday quashed multiple FIRs registered at Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, against the vice chancellor of a university and its officials over the alleged offence of "mass religious conversions" of Hindus into Christianity. A bench comprising justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, 158-page judgment, said the criminal law cannot be allowed to be made a tool of harassment of innocent persons, allowing prosecuting agencies to initiate prosecution at their whims an ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 17 (PTI) Two major Left-affiliated student organisations held protests at Delhi University's North Campus on Friday demanding action against DUSU Joint Secretary Deepika Jha, accused of physically assaulting a faculty member at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College. Jha, a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), was elected as the joint secretary of the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) in the recent polls. She said in a statement that she had visited the college t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): The University of Delhi (DU) on Friday constituted an inquiry committee to investigate the alleged physical assault on a faculty member by Deepika Jha, Joint Secretary of the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU), at BR Ambedkar College. The six-member committee will be chaired by Professor Neeta Sehgal from the Department of Zoology. The panel has been tasked with investigating the incident and submitting a factual report at the earliest, with DU Vice-Cha ...Read More >
The incident has drawn widespread condemnation from the university's teaching community. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * A Delhi University professor was slapped during a campus altercation with DUSU joint secretary Deepika Jha * The professor is Sujit Kumar, convenor of the college disciplinary committee investigating campus violence * The Delhi University Teachers' Association has demanded swift and decisive action Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switc ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi Police have questioned nearly 100 people, among them 67 guards on the South Asian University (SAU) campus, where an 18-year-old female student has alleged that four men tried to gangrape her. Police have also spoken to the girl to record the exact sequence of events. The student has alleged that one of her attackers was a campus guard.Investigators have matched the locations of the guards at the time of the alleged attack. Staff and students too were questioned. The cops have fo ...Read More >
JAMMU, Oct 16: BJP national general secretary, Tarun Chugh today lashed out at Omar Abullah's NC-Congress alliance Government which completed its one year in office, calling it a regime of deception and false promises. Chugh said that the NC leadership, Omar and Farooq Abdullah misled the people of Jammu and Kashmir with tall guarantees during the 2024 Assembly elections but failed to deliver even the basic commitments. He pointed out that the promise of 12 free LPG cylinders to poor households ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) Police have found that the email address used to send explicit and threatening messages to an 18-year-old South Asian University female student who has alleged sexual assault was being accessed by one of her friends, an officer said on Thursday. The first-year BTech student, who lives in the varsity hostel, has accused four people, including a security guard, of sexually assaulting her on the campus premises. She was found injured with her clothes torn on October 13, a d ...Read More >
Education technology firm PhysicsWallah (PW) on Wednesday announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IDP Education India, the co-owner of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), to expand global learning opportunities for its students. Under this collaboration, PW students will gain access to the IELTS curriculum along with a range of support mechanisms, including awareness sessions, seminars, boot camps, and expert-led masterclasses. The partnershi ...Read More >
Pune, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that Operation Sindoor was a symbol of the country's self-reliance, and the Army performed bravely using weapons made in India. "The Indian youth have taken a big initiative in the production of defence equipment, and in the last 10 years, our defence equipment production has increased from Rs 46,000 crore to Rs 1.50 lakh crore. In this, the private sector has contributed about Rs 33,000 crore. The goal is to increase ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): South Asian University on Thursday removed the girls' hostel warden and suspended the assistant following student protests over the alleged sexual assault of a student on the university's campus. This development comes after students staged a protest outside the administrative block, demanding the suspension of the warden and assistant over their alleged delayed action in a sexual assault case. Students at the university alleged that the administration trie ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): A Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) delegation has submitted a memorandum to Prof KK Aggarwal, President of South Asian University (SAU), demanding swift and stringent action against the culprits involved in the alleged sexual assault of a first-year B.Tech student. It is noteworthy that since the incident of sexual harassment came to light, ABVP has been continuously demanding justice for the victim. In protest, ABVP had organised a demonstration insi ...Read More >
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