NEET protests
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Pellet guns can’t be banned as long as advisory permits use: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, July 30, said that pellet guns cannot be banned as long as the existing advisory permits their use for crowd control in exceptional circumstances by…
- India
SC seeks RAF pellet gun ammunition log in NEET protest plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, July 30, asked the Centre to preserve the ammunition log of RAF deployed at Jantar Mantar during students’ protest against NEET paper leak. The top…
- India
Living in Russia: Man booked by Bihar Police over NEET protest
New Delhi: A Bihar native has claimed that amid the Bihar Police crackdown on NEET protesters, he has also been booked, though he had been in Russia for the past four months.…
- India
Govt bill focus must be on preventing paper leaks: Tharoor
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said the bill brought by the government to tackle paper leaks was “not enough” and asserted that the ambition cannot simply be to punish a leak…
- India
Tej Pratap Yadav released as Bihar drops student protest cases
Patna: Former Bihar minister Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, was released from Beur Central Jail on Tuesday, July 28, evening after the…
- Delhi
Plea in SC challenges police facial recognition at Jantar Mantar
New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court by a Rajya Sabha lawmaker challenging the alleged deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT) and other biometric surveillance measures by the…
- Opinions
Beyond the paper leak: Deadly price of India’s exam obsession
The NEET paper leak has rightly triggered nationwide outrage. Equally shocking, however, is the tragic loss of young lives that have followed in its wake. Reports indicate that about 20 students across…
- India
CJP volunteer Junaid moves SC, alleges police harassed family
New Delhi: Mohammad Junaid, who served as a food volunteer during the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) student protests against the NEET paper leak in Delhi, has moved the Supreme Court, alleging that he…
- India
Govt proposed portfolio change for Pradhan, CJP refused: Report
New Delhi: Before Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 25, the Centre had offered to shift him to a different portfolio as a compromise…
- India
NEET protests can’t justify lathi-charge: SC on police brutality
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, July 27, orally observed that the right to peaceful and lawful protest is protected under the Constitution and that agitation by itself cannot be used to…
- India
Arrested for his support to CJP protest, Junaid’s family let off
New Delhi: The family of Muhammad Junaid, who had alleged that he was targeted by the Uttar Pradesh Police for providing meals to NEET paper leak protesters at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, has been…
- India
Oppn to press govt in Parliament over NEET protest crackdown
New Delhi: The Congress-led opposition is set to keep the pressure on the government in Parliament over the alleged police brutality against protesting students, demanding action against those responsible for the assault…
- Kolkata
Kolkata man held for burning Modi’s photo during NEET protest
Kolkata: A man has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lighting a cigarette from the flames during a protest in Kolkata against the…
- Telangana
Telangana plans special Assembly session to lower election age
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday, July 25, announced that his government would soon convene a special session of the state assembly to pass a resolution urging the Centre…
- Telangana
Bandi Sanjay blames infiltrators for NEET protest violence
Hyderabad: Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday, July 24, alleged that anti-social elements who sneaked into the CJP-led protest against the NEET question paper leak issue indulged in attacks against police…
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