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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (IANS photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in the national capital on Monday amid her ongoing tussle with the Election Commission and found herself in a face-off with Delhi Police outside Banga Bhavan. Voicing her protest, Mamata said, “We came here for justice,” and warned…
NEW DELHI: Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has suspended a faculty member from its Department of Social Work following complaints about the content of an end-semester examination paper.The order, dated 23 December, said the university received several complaints regarding the paper titled “Social Problems in India” for the B.A. (Hons) Social Work programme, Semester I,…
NEW DELHi: Jamia Millia Islamia has suspended a professor and ordered an inquiry after images of a semester examination question paper triggered objections on social media. The paper, set for the BA (Hons) Social Work Semester I examination, titled ‘Social Problems in India’, asked students to “discuss the atrocities against Muslim minorities in India, giving…
Bangladesh High Commission, New Delhi NEW DELHI: India on Sunday rejected reports of the Bangladesh media as “misleading propaganda” over a protest that took place outside the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi following the “horrendous killing” of Dipu Chandra Das, a member of the minority community, in Mymensingh. The ministry of external affairs (MEA)…
DHAKA: Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Wednesday sent 15 serving army officers to jail to face trial on charges of enforced disappearances, murders and custodial tortures during former PM Sheikh Hasina’s tenure. The officers were taken into custody by the army on Oct 11 after a special tribunal ordered their arrest in cases of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid homage to stalwart Jai Prakash Narayan on his birth anniversary, hailing JP as a “tireless champion for democracy and social justice”.Recalling JP’s efforts to empower ordinary citizens and strengthen Constitutional values, PM Modi said: “His clarion call for Sampoorna Kranti…
