
New Delhi: The president of a students' union died on Thursday apparently due to food poisoning after she had a cold drink from her college canteen, police said. Kanika Sharma, 20, a resident of Ghaziabad on the outskirts of Delhi, had a cold drink from the canteen of Vivekananda College where she was studying in BA third year and was heading the students' union. "Kanika fell ill after drinking a...

12:52 PM, Feb 24, 2012

New Delhi: Novelist Vikram Seth, who is writing a sequel to 'A Suitable Boy', may not name his new book 'A Suitable Girl' as everyone was led to believe. It could even be named 'An Unsuitable Boy'. "I wrote 'A Suitable Boy' many years ago and it was set in India in the early 1950s when the British had just left. A few years ago, I thought to myself, 'well...

07:23 PM, Dec 06, 2011

New Delhi: Congress student's wing NSUI on Saturday won the Delhi University Students Union President's post while candidates of BJP's ABVP swept the other three top posts of the body. National Student's Union of India nominee Ajay Chikara won the President's post of the DUSU, while Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad candidate Vikas Choudhary was elected as the Vice-president of the student's body in the low-turnout elections that were held on...

01:47 PM, Sep 10, 2011

Bhopal: In provocative remarks, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday described the RSS as "fanatical", saying it was no different from banned terror outfit SIMI and that both hold "fundamentalist" views. "I know only that both SIMI and the RSS are fanatical and hold fundamentalist views," he said at a press conference here. When pointed out that the radical Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was a proscribed outfit, which was not...

04:04 PM, Oct 06, 2010

This is the first time after 1991 that an independent candidate has won. ...

02:14 PM, Sep 05, 2009

ABVP and NSUI are contesting for only one seat each this year. ...

01:41 PM, Sep 04, 2009

Six candidates have been barred from contesting in the DU elections. ...

03:58 PM, Sep 01, 2009

Rishi Shanker Mishra is a B Tech but is joining Congress' youth wing, NSUI. ...

12:41 PM, Jun 10, 2009

Congress MP admits being a member of Gandhi-Nehru family helped him. ...

07:25 PM, Oct 20, 2008

Rahul Dravid's sponsors have given him the boot for the dismal performance of the Men in Blue at the World Cup. ...

11:58 PM, Mar 28, 2007

Sansui announced the signing up of Rahul Dravid, Indian cricket’s most reliable batsman, as its brand ambassador. ...

12:31 AM, Feb 10, 2007

Two NSUI district presidents were sacked for defying Congress by opposing
Munnabhai's Gandhi
giri. ...

06:16 PM, Sep 19, 2006

Activists of NSUI and Youth Congress on Saturday protested against the use of word
Gandhigiri in the Bollywood flick. ...

12:13 PM, Sep 16, 2006

ABVP has released a CD, which shows NSUI and Congress workers creating pandemonium on the college premises. ...

01:33 PM, Sep 02, 2006

Union workers accused of beating a professor to death and injuring another for scrapping polls. ...

05:00 PM, Aug 30, 2006