President Kovind is slated to attend the university's convocation ceremony Monday. Students said the boycott is to protest the 'state repression' against students' protests.
The Home Ministry has forwarded to President's office the Delhi government's recommendation against granting mercy to one of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape.
Swati Maliwal, who is on a hunger strike demanding death for the 4 convicts, said they should be hanged before 16 December, the 7th anniversary of the crime.
Delivering his Independence Day address to the nation, Ram Nath Kovind said he was confident India will never lose sight of its ancient ideals and will forget neither its sense of fairness nor its sense of adventure.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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