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Left, Right And The Rest: From Gaza To Hostel Fees, JNU's High-Pitched Presidential Debate Before Poll Day
Last year, AISA's Nitish Kumar won the president's post, while ABVP's Vaibhav Meena secured the joint secretary seat-the outfit's first major victory in a decade.
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2 Students Burn Boy's Stomach, Hands With Iron Box In Andhra Pradesh: Cops
A student suffered severe burns after two of his classmates allegedly burnt him with an iron box in the hostel room of their private school at Morampudi in Konaseema district, said a police official on Tuesday.
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Row Over Telangana Officer's 'Children Must Clean Toilets' Remark
Comments by a Telangana government official - Alagu Varsini, about Dalit students at state-run gurukuls and hostels made to do 'chores', i.e., clean their toilets and rooms and even make some of their own food - have triggered a row.
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2 Rajasthan Teachers Suspended After Dalit Boy Hangs Self In Classroom
Two teachers have been suspended over the suicide of a 15-year-old Dalit boy at a government school in Rajasthan's Kotputli. The student, who lived in the school hostel, was found hanging in one of the classrooms.
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Special Team To Investigate Dalit Student's Suicide At IIT Bombay
Darshan Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad in Gujarat and was a first-year student of B Tech (Chemical) course at the IITB, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building located on the campus on February 12.
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Nitish Kumar's Gift For Dalits In Bihar: Clear IAS Prelims, Win Rs 1 Lakh
Continuing his effort to insulate his party from the perceived resentment among the Dalit community following last month's violent protests, the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar on Tuesday announced special grants for civil services aspirants from the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe who clear the preliminary exam.
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After Nitish Kumar Asks, Centre Expands Cheap Ration For Dalit Students
Continuing its Dalit outreach, the central government has decided to expand a scheme to provide subsidised food grains to students belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes (OBC) living in government-run Ambedkar hostels across the country.
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'My Name Is Rohith Vemula. I Am A Dalit,' He Said In Video Days Before He Died
"My name is Rohith Vemula... I'm a Dalit from Guntur district," asserted the PhD scholar in a video that his friends say they shot days before he hanged himself in his hostel room at the Hyderabad Central University in January this year.
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Student Allegedly Hangs Himself In Hostel In Hyderabad University, Dies In Hospital
A first-year student was found hanging in his hostel room early this morning at the Hyderabad Central University, where Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula had killed himself in January this year.
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Stand By Students Protesting In Hyderabad: Jadavpur University Students Union
Students of Kolkata's Jadavpur University have come out in support of the students protesting at the Hyderabad Central University where Rohith Vemula, a PhD scholar, killed himself in his hostel a month after he complained of caste discrimination against Dalit students like him.
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Medical Student Found Dead At Hostel Room In Tamil Nadu
A final year medical student was found dead in the hostel room of his college in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
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In Hyderabad, Dalit Teachers Quit, Change Their Mind, Then Quit Again
The suspension of four Dalit students who were barred, along with Rohith Vemula, from accessing the library, cafe and hostel has been revoked four days after Mr Vemula hung himself on campus.
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Suicide Of Student After 'Social Boycott' Sparks Anger in Hyderabad University
The suicide of a student who was suspended and banned from the hostel last month has ignited fierce protests at a Hyderabad university. Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya has been charged with aiding the suicide with a letter he had written in August.
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'It is as if These Children are Living In Jails': Minister on Dalit Boys' Hostels in Nagpur
Over the last 10 years, 793 tribal students have died in government-aided residential schools for tribal students. The government has ordered a probe, asking the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to study the reasons and submit a report.
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Anand Kumar
17-year-old Sadhanapally Anand Kumar from Telangana is the first Dalit to climb the world's highest peak - Mount Everest. He is a Class XII student in a government-run social welfare hostel in Telangana's Khammam district.
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Left, Right And The Rest: From Gaza To Hostel Fees, JNU's High-Pitched Presidential Debate Before Poll Day
Last year, AISA's Nitish Kumar won the president's post, while ABVP's Vaibhav Meena secured the joint secretary seat-the outfit's first major victory in a decade.
-
2 Students Burn Boy's Stomach, Hands With Iron Box In Andhra Pradesh: Cops
A student suffered severe burns after two of his classmates allegedly burnt him with an iron box in the hostel room of their private school at Morampudi in Konaseema district, said a police official on Tuesday.
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Row Over Telangana Officer's 'Children Must Clean Toilets' Remark
Comments by a Telangana government official - Alagu Varsini, about Dalit students at state-run gurukuls and hostels made to do 'chores', i.e., clean their toilets and rooms and even make some of their own food - have triggered a row.
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2 Rajasthan Teachers Suspended After Dalit Boy Hangs Self In Classroom
Two teachers have been suspended over the suicide of a 15-year-old Dalit boy at a government school in Rajasthan's Kotputli. The student, who lived in the school hostel, was found hanging in one of the classrooms.
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Special Team To Investigate Dalit Student's Suicide At IIT Bombay
Darshan Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad in Gujarat and was a first-year student of B Tech (Chemical) course at the IITB, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building located on the campus on February 12.
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Nitish Kumar's Gift For Dalits In Bihar: Clear IAS Prelims, Win Rs 1 Lakh
Continuing his effort to insulate his party from the perceived resentment among the Dalit community following last month's violent protests, the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar on Tuesday announced special grants for civil services aspirants from the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe who clear the preliminary exam.
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After Nitish Kumar Asks, Centre Expands Cheap Ration For Dalit Students
Continuing its Dalit outreach, the central government has decided to expand a scheme to provide subsidised food grains to students belonging to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes (OBC) living in government-run Ambedkar hostels across the country.
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'My Name Is Rohith Vemula. I Am A Dalit,' He Said In Video Days Before He Died
"My name is Rohith Vemula... I'm a Dalit from Guntur district," asserted the PhD scholar in a video that his friends say they shot days before he hanged himself in his hostel room at the Hyderabad Central University in January this year.
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Student Allegedly Hangs Himself In Hostel In Hyderabad University, Dies In Hospital
A first-year student was found hanging in his hostel room early this morning at the Hyderabad Central University, where Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula had killed himself in January this year.
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Stand By Students Protesting In Hyderabad: Jadavpur University Students Union
Students of Kolkata's Jadavpur University have come out in support of the students protesting at the Hyderabad Central University where Rohith Vemula, a PhD scholar, killed himself in his hostel a month after he complained of caste discrimination against Dalit students like him.
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Medical Student Found Dead At Hostel Room In Tamil Nadu
A final year medical student was found dead in the hostel room of his college in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
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In Hyderabad, Dalit Teachers Quit, Change Their Mind, Then Quit Again
The suspension of four Dalit students who were barred, along with Rohith Vemula, from accessing the library, cafe and hostel has been revoked four days after Mr Vemula hung himself on campus.
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Suicide Of Student After 'Social Boycott' Sparks Anger in Hyderabad University
The suicide of a student who was suspended and banned from the hostel last month has ignited fierce protests at a Hyderabad university. Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya has been charged with aiding the suicide with a letter he had written in August.
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'It is as if These Children are Living In Jails': Minister on Dalit Boys' Hostels in Nagpur
Over the last 10 years, 793 tribal students have died in government-aided residential schools for tribal students. The government has ordered a probe, asking the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to study the reasons and submit a report.
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Anand Kumar
17-year-old Sadhanapally Anand Kumar from Telangana is the first Dalit to climb the world's highest peak - Mount Everest. He is a Class XII student in a government-run social welfare hostel in Telangana's Khammam district.
