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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

New Delhi, Mar 20: Rahul Gandhi today mounted a sharp attack on the Prime Minister and the BJP in the wake of the Uttarakhand crisis, saying it has exposed the "true face of Modiji's BJP" and declared that the Congress would fight this "demagoguery with democracy". Targeting the ruling party at the Centre over the issue, he said in a series of tweets, "Toppling elected Govts by indulging in horse

New Delhi, Mar 20: Amid a controversy over the recent JNU row, BJP today said freedom of expression does not give a right to call for the country's destruction, with the issue finding a pride of place in the political resolution adopted at its National Executive meeting here.The issue of nationalism continued to take the centre stage in the deliberations after party chief Amit Shah set the tone in

New Delhi, Mar 20: An average 77 per cent Indian students who returned with a foreign medical degree in the past 12 years failed to clear the mandatory screening examination conducted by Medical Council of India. Any citizen possessing a primary medical qualification awarded by any medical institution outside the country who wants provisional or permanent registration with MCI or any state medical

New Delhi, Mar 20: Following conclusion of a month-long series of lectures on "nationalism", the teachers of JNU, which is at the centre of a row over the Afzal Guru event, have now decided to hold a string of presentations on "azadi". After a controversy erupted over the event on campus against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were allegedly