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Hyderabad, Mar 23: Hyderabad Central University has not granted any permission to JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar to address a meeting on the campus, Vice Chancellor Prof Appa Rao Podile said today. "No body has approached for permission. Definitely, there is no permission," he said here. Kumar was scheduled to address a meeting on the campus this evening at the invitation of the

Mumbai/ New Delhi, Mar 23: Sharp rises in education and healthcare costs in the last two years have hit the nation’s burgeoning middle class hard, denting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity among the relatively well-off ahead of a series of state elections. Price increases for services deemed a luxury for most Indians could also complicate the central bank’s plans to cut borrowing costs

Kochi, Mar 23: India has the highest number of people—7.6 crore—in the world without access to safe water supply, followed by China and Nigeria, a WaterAid report said on Tuesday. The people end up incurring high costs for access, which is primarily due to poor management of water resources, says the report “Water: At what cost? The State of the World’s Water”—released by the global agency to mark

New Delhi, Mar 22: Two Jet Airways crew members were injured in the blasts at Brussels airport today even as the authorities have relocated the airline's passengers in Brussels to a safe location. "Two of our staff have been injured and are receiving medical care," a senior airline official said. According to the airline, as per initial information, Jet Airways guests in Brussels have been re

Hyderabad, Mar 22: Ugly scenes were witnessed at the University of Hyderabad on a day when Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile rejoined work after nearly two months on leave. Students, who have been protesting ever since Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula committed suicide inside the varsity campus, vandalised the VC's residence where he was due to address the press in a shortwhile. TV visuals

New Delhi/ Dehradun, Mar 22: The BJP on Monday pitched itself to form a government in Uttarakhand with nine Congress rebel MLAs switching sides to unsettle Chief Minister Harish Rawat. The Congress, too, stepped up its game by expelling Saket Bahuguna, the son of the rebel group leader and former chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, and approached President Pranab Mukherjee with a plea to rein in the

New Delhi, Mar 21: Reservation for the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and the marginalised in the country will remain untouched, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said when he delivered the Ambedkar Memorial Lecture after he laid the foundation stone for a state-of-the-art memorial for the Dalits' rights crusader in New Delhi. The memorial will house Amedbakar's life’s works. Highlights Babasaheb

New Delhi, Mar 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at the centre of some very flowery expressions of flattery from Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on the concluding day of the BJP national executive. Mr. Naidu, who moved the political resolution, called him “God’s gift to India” and a “messiah of the poor.” Going further, he said he was the “Modifier of developing India” which

New Delhi, Mar 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked BJP workers not to be diverted by "non-issues" raised from time to time by political detractors and focus on nation building by helping the poorer and weaker sections of people. "Our government is doing a good job. And our party workers should not get diverted by non-issues and we should focus on our own agenda," he said at the

Srinagar, Mar 20: Army teams today recovered the body of a soldier who had gone missing following an avalanche in Kargil area of Jammu and Kashmir. "Rescue teams of army on the third day of a gruelling search operation managed to recover the mortal remains of sepoy Vijay Kumar K from under 12 feet of snow," a defence spokesman said here. He said the search operation continued for three days