Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted BJP president JP Nadda on his birthday. PM Modi lashed praises on his party president Nadda by terming his leadership ‘inspiring’.
It was alleged that an organisation booked the student union hall for November 14 on the birth anniversary Jawaharlal Nehru only to find the place occupied by 15 ABVP members afterwards.
The two-day meeting was organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), and attended by several BJP leaders and RSS-inclined academicians.
Dattatreya Hosabale replaces Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi who became the general secretary in 2009 when Mohan Bhagwat took charge of the RSS as the Sarsanghchalak.
Prior to this, Hosabale served as the Sah-Sarakaryavah (Joint General Secretary) of the Sangh
The clash erupted over activists of RSS-affiliate Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) putting up flags and posters at Bajkul College, said officials
Gadkari was speaking at the Yeshwantrao Kelkar Yuva Award program at the 66th national convention of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
When a group of six students called for protests, they had not expected more than 100 participants to join them. But they were taken by surprise.
In the sting videos, the students are seen admitting that they were part of the violence outside the varsity's Sabarmati hostel.
'If they don't abide by orders from above, they will be suspended,' says Kejriwal about Delhi Police.
The Left-controlled JNUSU and the ABVP blamed each other for the violence that continued for nearly two hours.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led party said it was worrying to see the way visually-challenged and divyang students were allegedly thrashed by Delhi police on Monday
Union Minister Babul Supriyo claimed that the protesters tried to 'provoke him by openly referring to themselves as naxals.'
The RSS-affiliated ABVP won three posts, including that of the president, in Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections.
The busts of the trio were installed on August 20 by outgoing DUSU president Shakti Singh without taking permission from the varsity authorities. They were removed on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad-led Delhi University Students' Union had installed the busts on Tuesday outside the Arts faculty.
The move has been criticised by the Congress-affiliated NSUI and Left-backed AISA which said Savarkar cannot be kept on the same pedestal as Subhash Chandra Bose and Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
Samajwadi Party chief and former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was on Tuesday, stopped by the authorities at Lucknow airport in a bid to prevent him from visiting Allahabad.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.