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‘Ridiculous,’ Says Kanhaiya Kumar As Smriti Irani’s Ministry Ranks JNU At 3

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Both JNU and the Hyderabad University have been at the centre of massive rows that have led to student protests against Smriti Irani. NEW DELHI: Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU student arrested on charges of sedition last month, has said it is “ridiculous” that the university has been ranked number 3 in the country by the Centre’s education ministry. “Feels ridiculous that on one hand the Ministry of Human Resource Development is attacking us over autonomy and on the other hand we are on this list,” said Mr Kumar, who is…

Minister’s PA Did It? 3 Arrests Over Chemistry Paper Leak in Bengaluru

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Students protested in Bengaluru over cancelled exams following a question paper leak BENGALURU: Three men have been arrested for the leak of the Class 12 chemistry exam paper in Bengaluru – not once but twice – and among them is a minister’s top aide. Oblaraju, personal assistant to Medical Education Minister Sharanaparakash Rudrappa Patil, was arrested in the afternoon. The police say he accessed the question paper easily and circulated it. The others arrested are Rudrappa, an office manager, and Manjunath, a physical education teacher and insurance agent. They both…

IIT-Kharagpur Lost Out In Rankings Over Faculty-Student Ratio, Says Director

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‘India Rankings 2016’ released by the Human Resource Development Ministry ranked IIT Kharagpur at Number 3. KOLKATA: The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, which came third in the Education Ministry’sranking of engineering institutes in the country, on Monday said it lost out mainly due to its faculty-student ratio. “We lost out primarily due to our faculty-student ratio as we were placed eighth in the list. We have 11,300-plus students, which is by far the largest. In all other areas, our performance was very close to the top,” IIT-Kharagpur Director Partha Pratim…

NIT Srinagar Unrest: Will Ensure No Student Deals With Injustice, Says Smriti Irani

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SRINAGAR: Union Education Minister Smriti Irani has assured students that examinations will be conducted in a “secure environment” at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, where student protesters were lathicharged by the police during clashes on Tuesday evening. Here are the 10 latest developments in this story Ms Irani said she has spoken to Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, who has assured her that students will be safe at the institute and that no student will deal with injustice. Ms Irani, who sent top officials to the…

‘We Want Our Tricolour Back,’ Students To Central Team At NIT Srinagar

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Students of NIT who are from outside Kashmir, clashed with the police at the institute’s gate when they were prevented from leaving the campus. SRINAGAR: In a packed hall at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, a student representative today told visiting officials from the Centre’s education ministry that they want the institute shifted out of Srinagar and want action taken against policemen who lathicharged student protesters late on Tuesday evening. “And we want our national flag back from the police,” he said amid loud cheers from fellow students,…

Was Misinformed About ‘Mild Lathi Charge’ At NIT: Nirmal Singh To NDTV

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Nirmal Singh said police officers involved in lathi charge at NIT Srinagar campus will be punished. A day after he described the assault on students at the NIT campus in Srinagar as “a mild lathi charge”, Nirmal Singh, the Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, told NDTV he had been misinformed of the facts. “Police officers who were involved in lathi charge will be punished. I was told it was a ‘mild’ lathi charge which is why I used that term earlier,” he said in an interview amid much…