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SC warns IITs, IIMs and premier institutions over rising student suicides, says legal action if...The Supreme Court is addressing a surge in student suicides at India's top institutions, with a task force investigating the causes. Despit...- 'There is something wrong': SC raises concern about rising number of student suicides at institutesThe Supreme Court has sought reports from IIT-Kharagpur and Sharda University regarding recent student deaths, expressing concern over risi...
- Rahul Gandhi calls 'Not Found Suitable' label new form of 'Manuvaad', slams Modi govt over vacant reserved postsRahul Gandhi criticizes the Modi government's "Not Found Suitable" (NFS) practice, alleging it discriminates against SC, ST, and OBC candid...
- SC orders probe into IIT-Delhi students' suicides, forms national task forceThe Supreme Court of India has ordered Delhi Police to investigate the suicidal deaths of two SC/ST IIT-Delhi students, mandating an FIR be...
- Expert panel set up by UGC to ensure non-discriminatory environment for SC, ST students in universitiesA two-member bench of justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh raised concern about SC and ST student suicides while adjudicating a public inter...
- Caste, a shadow even in 'elite' institutesThe institute had denied this charge. Earlier this week, IIT-B asked students to refrain from asking about each other's JEE (Advanced) rank...
- Don't ask JEE rank, birthplace, catagory or crack objectional jokes, IIT-B warns studentsIIT Bombay has released guidelines to halt discrimination based on caste, including when inquiring about a fellow student's birth or admiss...
- IIT student case: Mere allegations in suicide note not sufficient to conclude accused committed offence of abetment, says Mumbai courtMere allegations in a suicide note would not be sufficient to draw conclusion that the accused has committed the offence of abetment, a Mum...
- IITs should have zero tolerance for discrimination, provide all support to students: Dharmendra PradhanAt a meeting of the IIT Council, the apex coordination body of all the 23 premier engineering colleges, Pradhan also said students of the i...
- Counselling students with low grade, reducing curriculum load: IITs step up measures to check suicidesSuicide by an IIT Bombay student recently amid allegations of caste discrimination has brought the limelight back on the rigorous curriculu...
- UGC plans action against non-complying varsitiesThe development comes in the wake of the alleged suicide of a 26-year-old second-year postgraduate student in Mumbai’s TN Topiwala National...
- The new-age Dalits are unapologetic, unashamed of their identityThe Dalit born after the 1991 economic reforms are wearing the Dalit tag as a badge of honour and needs more than the tokenism of temple en...
- Rohith Vemula suicide: Joint Parliamentary Committee team likely to visit Hyderabad UniversityThe panel has favoured sending a delegation to the institution and also IIT-Chennai, to look into complaints of injustice against Dalit stu...
- Dalit suicide case: Why Rohith Vemula's death is the tipping point in caste bias on campusMost Dalit commentators say that they view this as evidence of BJP’s lack of commitment towards Dalits despite overtures made by Modi in 20...
- CPI targets Prime Minister Modi over not speaking up on Dalit student death"The field of education has become a real battlefield of ideas, ideas of social justice, secularism and the idea of Hindutva," Raja said.
- What the Constitution means to DalitsIn the popular Dalit imagination, the Constitution is the anti-thesis of Manusmriti, the ancient text whose laws governed the caste Hindu s...
- Piyush Goyal accuses Congress of raking "divisive issues"Goyal today accused Congress of raking "divisive issues", days after party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi took a veiled dig at BJP cautioning ...
- Rahul Gandhi slams Narendra Modi government over IIT-Madras row"This system explicitly explains that even today some peoples' rights are being snatched and that there is no social equality in the countr...
- SC student discrimination exists in top educational institutions like IITs, IIMs, AIIMS: NCSCNational Commission for Scheduled Caste today claimed even top educational institutions are not free from discrimination against SC student...
- IIT-Delhi to review expulsions of 12 SC/ST studentsThe Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi on Tuesday agreed to review the expulsion of 12 SC/ST students for poor performance after its Dire...
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