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At least eight people, including an Indian national, were injured in a stabbing attack in Russia’s Bashkortostan Republic on Saturday.According to local media reports, a teenager armed with a knife entered the sports hall of a foreign students’ hostel at a medical university and attacked students living there.“The attacker resisted arrest, during which two police…
LONDON: A student studying at De Montfort University in Leicester was stabbed to death outside the university campus on Tuesday.Whilst there are a large number of Indian students studying at the university, the victim is not believed to be Indian origin.Leicestershire police said that a murder investigation had been launched after a man in his…
Al-Falah University (File photo) NEW DELHI: Red Fort suicide bomber Dr Umar Nabi and two of his colleagues at Al-Falah University of Faridabad, Dr Muzammil and Dr Shaheen, were among several faculty and staff at the medical college appointed with direct approval of university chancellor Javed Ahmad Siddiqui, without any police verification or scrutiny, the…
NEW DELHI: The former chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University Firoz Bakht Ahmed has written to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, alleging religious discrimination, administrative apathy and institutional failure at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and seeking an independent central probe into the matter. In his letter, Ahmed flagged the case of Rachana Kaushal, a…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala University’s Centre for Latin American Studies is paying the price for what could be the costliest ‘typo’ in its financial history — a careless bank clerk swapping ‘ ₹’ with ‘$’ while transferring funds to a Brazilbased journalist as remuneration for four online lectures he delivered in 2023.The difference between the intended fee…
GURGAON: Haryana’s pollution watchdog has ordered the closure and sealing of an under-construction hostel and mess block on Al-Falah University’s Faridabad campus for carrying out work despite GRAP-restrictions and without mandated environmental approvals. It also initiated prosecution-linked action after tests showed even treated effluents discharged by the university exceeded permissible limits.The disclosures emerged from an…
The National Council of Educational Research and Training, an institution long associated with school textbooks and curriculum design, may soon step into a different institutional role. According to sources in the Ministry of Education, NCERT is likely to be granted deemed-to-be-university status by the end of January, ANI reports.The groundwork for the decision has been…
Stanford investigators have found the exact immune process at work in occasional instances of inflammation of the heart, or myocarditis, associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which occurred principally in young males. Their report published in Science Translational Medicine describes a two-step process involving certain proteins, and how a compound found in soy products may…
AGRA: A computer teacher at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was shot dead on campus in a targeted attack on Wednesday evening, police said. Chilling CCTV footage shows the assailants firing at the teacher even after he had fallen to the ground.The victim, Rau Danish Ali, had been teaching computer science at ABK High School on…
An Indian-origin student – studying at Canada’s University of Toronto – was killed after he was fatally shot near the campus by unknown attackers.According to police, Shivank Avasthi — a 20-year-old doctoral student – was found with a gunshot wound on Tuesday in Toronto. Police are seeking the public’s help to arrest the accused.“On Tuesday,…
