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BENGALURU: What began as a bizarre classroom episode has escalated into a criminal case, with police booking a medical college assistant professor for allegedly proposing to a student during class – an incident that triggered outrage, protests and violence on the campus. The accused, Abdul Rehman Sharif, 48, is attached to the department of microbiology…
NEW DELHI: A professor at a medical college on the outskirts of Bengaluru has been booked for sexual harassment after allegedly re-entering the campus despite being barred and proposing to a female student in a classroom, an incident that later spiralled into a violent confrontation.Police said the episode took place on March 23 at a…
NEW DELHI: A first-year BTech student of IIT-Delhi is suspected to have died by suicide on the campus on Thursday. According to police, preliminary investigation suggests depression may have led to the incident. No suicide note was recovered from the spot.Cops at Kishangarh police station received information about the incident around 8.35am Thursday. On reaching…
BENGALURU: Infosys has earmarked an outlay of Rs 290 crore to expand its Mohali development centre, further strengthening its presence in north India. The upcoming facility will have a built-up area of about 350,000 sft and will accommodate around 3,000 employees. Source link
20-year-old abducted, gang-raped on college campus in Gwalior (Representative image) BHOPAL: A 20-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by three men on a college campus in the Dabra area of Gwalior district.While the incident occurred on Feb 19, the matter came to light only recently after the survivor’s health worsened, said police. The Dabra…
The Indian Institutes of Technology have approved cross-campus mobility for undergraduate students. Image: AI generated An IIT student’s trajectory is defined by a system that is precise, high-stakes, and largely non-negotiable. A JEE rank doesn’t just decide a branch. It decides a campus, the professors they learn from, the labs they can access and even…
LUCKNOW: Students of Lucknow University affiliated with the Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha (SCS), National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and the All India Students’ Association (AISA) staged a sit-in protest on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday outside the historic Lal Baradari. They alleged that the university administration had deliberately sealed the mosque inside Lal…
ABVP accuses left groups of assault (Picture credit: X) NEW DELHI: A clash broke out at Jawaharlal Nehru University late Sunday night, with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) alleging that its members were attacked by Left-wing groups. Several students were reported injured in the violence.In a post on X, ABVP claimed that Prateek Bhardwaj,…
NEW DELHI: India will launch its first set of sovereign AI models, announce major national AI research programmes, expand shared computing facilities, and roll out AI labs across 500 universities at AI Impact Summit 2026.Earlier, electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said home-grown models are ready for public use and will be unveiled at…
South Carolina state university shooting (AP image) At least two people were killed and one was injured in a shooting at a residential complex of South Carolina State University, prompting authorities to impose a lockdown on the campus for nearly eight hours.The university said that the shooting took place at a student residential facility in…
