Anti-ragging campaign stepped up
Ragging is a heinous crime that should be avoided in the interest of students, said Superintendent of Police S. Chandrashekar Reddy, here on Saturday. Addressing the anti-ragging...
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NAVI MUMBAI: Based on recent complaints by several Vashi-based colleges on the menace of roadside rowdies outside their campuses, a group of student activists on Monday submitted a written complaint to...
View ArticleHungry Bangalore University hostelites go on flash hunger strike
Bengaluru: Graduate students living in hostels at Bangalore University resorted to a hunger-strike protest on Monday evening. Students were irate when the hostel lost electricity connection and they...
View ArticleAfter MBBS, 77 needed HC help to turn doctors
CHENNAI: The stroke of a judge's pen, and a little judicial indulgence - that is all it took to give 77 MBBS degree-holders, whose college was derecognized by the Medical Council of India, recognition...
View Article‘Let advocacy against ragging go beyond campus’
There is a need to put an end to ragging that is raising its ugly head everywhere. The first step starts from within. Unless every student understands the consequences of the crime and until advocacy...
View ArticleBR Ambedkar varsity students take ragging plaint to cops
Agra: Two first-year BPharm students of Dr BR Ambedkar University here have said that they were ragged by senior students. They said they were being forced to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol in...
View ArticleLU sends list of illegal occupants in hostels to police
LUCKNOW: Authorities of the Lucknow University on Tuesday identified 10 inmates of four of their hostels who are sharing their rooms illegally with others. The university sent a list of 18 expelled...
View Article‘Colleges run like jails’
Out of 22 colleges located in the west zone of the Vijayawada Police Commissionerate, 18 sent a representative to attend a meeting convened on Wednesday by the Vijayawada Police to discuss the recent...
View Article‘Gandhigiri’, say ABVP students holding principal hostage
Bareilly: Students of Bareilly College held the principal hostage for several hours on Thursday and said it was to press their demands in a peaceful way, like Gandhi. Students of the Akhil Bhartiye...
View ArticleSome Students Fail Even Before Classes Start
College students are heading back to campus across the U.S., but one of the first lessons they may face is in sexism or racism. The national news has covered several stories featuring unexplainable...
View ArticleGender apartheid on college campuses
hat with segregated spaces, different rules for girls and boys, and protectionist tendencies, there is an ongoing gender apartheid in institutions of higher learning in Kerala, educationist Meekashi...
View Article‘Colleges being run like correctional homes’
ut of 22 colleges located in the west zone of the Vijayawada Police Commissionerate, 18 sent a representative to attend a meeting convened on Wednesday by the Vijayawada Police to discuss the recent...
View ArticleCleanliness is next to godliness for Thane’s students, faculty
THANE: With the completion of a year since the launch of the Swachh Bharat campaign on October 2, students from schools and colleges in Thane have taken up the mission for cleanliness and actively...
View Article3 MBBS students held for ragging, get bail
SURAT: Three MBBS students were arrested for ragging second-year students at Surat Municipal Institute of Medical and Research (SMIMER) on Thursday. The third-year students - Sunny Vaghasiya, Parthiv...
View ArticleSairam College students go on rampage, break furniture
CHENNAI: The ongoing tussle between students and management of Sairam Engineering College worsened on Sunday after hostel inmates staged a hunger strike and then went on a rampage breaking furniture....
View ArticleAlumni post ‘confession’ videos to shame engineering college under fire
CHENNAI: Just when Sairam Engineering College started tentatively considering the demands of its students who say the college has been inordinately strict, its former students have taken the battle to...
View ArticleTeacher threatens students with pistol
MHOW: Annoyed with his students over his complaint by them, a senior secondary teacher pointed a country made pistol on the students in Dhamnod town on Friday. School principal has confirmed about the...
View ArticleBooker T. Washington students study life, work of philanthropist Julius...
When Jefton Gibson, 18, heard about Julius Rosenwald and the movie about his life, it really wasn’t such a big deal to him. That changed after Gibson and several other students at Booker T. Washington...
View ArticleManuu on the boil as students lay siege to varsity
HYDERABAD: The sprawling 200-acre campus of Maulana Azad Urdu University (Manuu) was on the boil on Monday when hundreds of students demanded the resignation of its proctor S A Wahab and other...
View ArticleA helping hand to people
The students of Jyothishmathi Institute of Technology and Sciences (JITS) have formed a group called “Jyothishmathi brigade” to fight the social evils in the society. The Jyothishmathi Brigade would be...
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