Indian-Americans in Chicago, led by students of two leading universities, held a protest meet and candlelight vigil in memory of the Delhi braveheart victim and sought change in India's rape laws and strict conviction of the accused to help reduce crime against women. Indian students pursuing graduate studies at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University organised the meet on January 4 to condemn the brutal gangrape of the 23-year-old...
01:17 PM, Jan 06, 2013
In yet another case of alleged harassment, a youth and his friends drove a postgraduate student to commit suicide in the industrial town of Kanpur. The woman had registered a complaint against a fellow student and his two friends, but no action was taken in the case by the police. ...
10:18 AM, Jan 05, 2013
The Delhi government Thursday directed all private and government schools to remain closed till January 12 in view of the intense cold in the capital. ...
02:43 AM, Jan 04, 2013
The judicial custody of five Jamia Millia Islamia University law students, accused of gangraping a minor girl for over two months by keeping her in captivity, was on Thursday extended till January 16 by a Delhi court. ...
05:17 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Students will return to classes at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Thursday after a month since the deadly massacre left 26 dead in the Newton, Connecticut school. Dozens of people have worked tirelessly over the holidays to bring the school back to normality. ...
03:39 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Stepping up measures for women's saftey in the backdrop of growing demand for such action, Karnataka government on January 3 set up a dedicated helpline. Women in distress and those facing threat of attack including molestation could call on phone number 1091. The helpline in Bangalore would work 24x7, state Home Minister R Ashok told reporters here. ...
03:04 PM, Jan 03, 2013
'2 States' is directed Abhishek Verman and co-produced by Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala. ...
11:55 AM, Jan 03, 2013
The police investigating the murder of a 23-year-old Osmania University student has said that the girl was pregnant. The autopsy report of the girl has revealed that she was four months pregnant, the police said. ...
10:32 AM, Jan 02, 2013
In another shocking incident of crime against women, a man raped his classmate at an engineering college at Kurukshetra, Haryana. This even as the protesters in Delhi continue their vigil for a safer environment for women across the nation. ...
11:04 PM, Dec 30, 2012
For more than 300 years, Yale University has prided itself on training top students to question and analyze, to challenge and critique. Now, Yale is seeking to export those values by establishing the first foreign campus to bear its name, a liberal arts college in Singapore that is set to open this summer. The ambitious, multimillion-dollar project thrills many in the Yale community who say it will help the university...
05:43 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Top-notch actors paved the way for young and new talent with or without filmy connections in 2012. ...
02:27 PM, Dec 28, 2012
A 24-year Indian student in Bonn was brutally attacked by Islamic extremists who slashed his tongue when he refused to convert, German police said on Thursday. ...
01:48 AM, Dec 28, 2012
To provide monetary assistance to meritorious girls of the state, Haryana government has disbursed Rs 3.90 crore to 4,595 female students under the education loan scheme. ...
04:24 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Global entrepreneurship summit, an annual conclave of IIT Kharagpur, will be held at its campus from January 11 to 13. ...
01:46 AM, Dec 27, 2012
A Physical Education Teacher was on Wednesday suspended for allegedly misbehaving with a girl at Keezhadi Government Higher Secondary school some days ago, police said. ...
12:44 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Some miscreants tried to pull a school student in their car while she was returning from school in Bareily, Uttar Pradesh just a week after the spine-chilling and brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old in a moving bus in Delhi. ...
12:05 PM, Dec 26, 2012
The Tata Memorial Hospital organised Hope 2012, Christmas celebrations for children battling cancer. ...
04:02 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Osmania University students on Monday carried out rallies protesting against controversial remarks made by Andhra Pradesh state unit chief Botsa Satyanarayana. The Congress leader called the incident as minor and suggested imposing curfew for women. ...
01:47 PM, Dec 25, 2012
With the 2013 admissions just months away, Delhi University has upgraded their three year undergraduate courses. Delhi University has passed a resolution to upgrade the three year undergrad course to four year courses. ...
06:40 AM, Dec 25, 2012
The 23-year old victim of gangrape in Delhi is showing positive signs of recovery while getting treatment in Safdarjung Hospital. The young paramedic student, who has been off the ventilator for almost two days now, was made to get up from her bed and take a few steps. ...
10:00 AM, Dec 23, 2012
