Amicus curiae Aparna Bhatt, who submitted the report, compared two alleged suicides that happened the same day, at Sharda University & IIT Kharagpur, and how the institutions responded.
Justices Vikram Nath & Sandeep Mehta issued the guidelines, while hearing a petition by the father of a student who died by suicide in Andhra Pradesh, seeking a CBI probe.
Police said the 21-year-old died by 'suicide' in the University hostel. FIR has been lodged against five people. The university held discussion with relatives of the deceased.
The incident has once again put the spotlight on the university, racked with students' allegations of rape, hate speech & queerphobia over the last two years.
State has introduced Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Bill. If passed, Rajasthan will become 1st state to have a comprehensive legislation regulating coaching centres.
Students said they had to beg and borrow to return home to Nepal after KIIT University ordered their eviction, prompting Nepal’s Prime Minister to dispatch a two-member delegation to Bhubaneswar.
A case of unnatural death was filed by Kharagpur Town Police on Sunday and investigation is underway. Cops have questioned Shaon's batchmates & previous roommates.
Govt says digital payments also uplift under-served communities by providing them financial footprint that can be used to assess credit worthiness in absence of traditional documents.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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