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Kochi, Mar 2: Advocating free thinking in university campuses, President Pranab Mukherjee today said students and faculties must engage in "reasoned discussion and debate rather than propagating a culture of unrest". He also said it was tragic to see students caught in the vortex of violence and disquiet. His comments come in the backdrop of the ongoing tussle between RSS-affiliate ABVP and Left

New Delhi, Mar 2: Delhi Police's Crime Branch, which is probing the clashes at Ramjas College, has recorded the statements of two St Stephen's College students who were allegedly beaten up by supporters of ABVP. The two St Stephen's students- a boy and a girl- have alleged that they were beaten up outside the Ramjas College canteen by ABVP supporters, said a senior police officer. The girl has

Tirunelveli, Mar 2: Upset over the Madras High Court order allowing Pepsi and Coca Cola to draw water from the Thamirabarani river for their bottling plants in this district for manufacturing soft drinks, a large number or persons today stood in knee deep water in the river to express their ire. They also protested against the "laxity" on the part of the authorities in handling the case.The

New Delhi, Mar 2: Agitating Jats in Haryana on Thursday begin descending at Jantar Mantar in Delhi in support of their various demands, including reservations in government jobs and educational institutes for the community. Roads leading to the protest hub were packed with Jat agitators from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Delhi, and Punjab, giving a tough time to motorists and commuters

Lucknow, Mar 2: Campaigning is at its peak in UP but SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav has stepped out only for two public rallies this elections, a stark contrast to the over 300 rallies he addressed in the 2012 assembly polls. Leaders from across the political spectrum criss-crossed the entire state to woo the voters but Mulayam mostly kept indoors. The 77-year-old SP patron campaigned just for

Hyderabad, Mar 2: Sunayana, the widow of Srinivas Kuchibhotla killed in the US in an apparent hate crime, today urged the leaders of global tech industry to keep defending human rights as they too employ a large number of immigrants. "Thanks to people like Satya Nadella (CEO-Microsoft) and Kamala Harris for supporting through your tweets. It means a lot to us. My sincere request to Mark Zuckerberg

New Delhi, Mar 2: State-run oil marketers raised the price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) by a steep Rs 86 per cylinder effective from Wednesday. "With effect from 1 March, 2017, non-subsidised price of LPG cylinder has increased by Rs 86. This is in line with the rise in global LPG product prices," a Petroleum Ministry statement here said. Non-subsidised LPG, which customers buy after

New Delhi, Mar 2: The CBI has registered two separate cases against State Bank of Mysore officials for alleged illegal exchange of scrapped currency notes worth Rs 2.88 crore with new ones. The first case has been registered on the basis of a complaint by deputy general manager of SBM alleging that head cashier B Dinesh posted at currency chest branch, Periyapatna, Mysuru, and Manoj Kumar, a

New Delhi, Mar 1: BJP leader Shazia Ilmi today accused Jamia University of putting "pressure" on organisers of an event to drop her name from a panel of speakers for a seminar on triple talaq, a charge denied by the varsity. According to Ilmi, she was invited by RSS supported Forum for Awareness of National Security (FANS) to speak at a seminar on "Triple Talaq" and the university had pressurised

Maharajganj (UP), Mar 1: Mocking economists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "hard work is more powerful than Harvard" as the latest GDP data shows demonetisation did not affect growth rate, rather the figures improved. "On the one hand are those (critics of note ban) who talk of what people at Harvard say and on the other hand is a poor man's son who through his hard work is trying to