Student Held Hostage

A four-year-old student was held hostage for hours at his school in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly because his parents had missed the deadline for paying the fee. The owner and the principal of the school in Bulandshahr have been missing since they were charged by the child's family with illegally confining him.

A day after Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University witnessed night-long protests over a missing student, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh ordered the Delhi Police to set up a special team to trace the young man.

Armed dacoits stormed into a law college here and looted cash from the administrative office and assaulted students, police said today.

A University of California, Berkeley sophomore who was among the 20 hostages killed over the weekend by militants in Bangladesh is being remembered as a kind and smart young woman.

The body of 19-year-old Tarishi Jain will be flown to Delhi today. The UC Berkeley student was among the 20 hostages killed in the Dhaka attack. Her funeral will be conducted in Gurgaon.

It was a forced sleepover for the top officials at Kolkata's famous Presidency University who were locked into a room by a group of 50 students opposed to new rules for admission.

Six Taliban suicide bombers who killed over 120 people, mostly students, at an army-run school in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan, are dead, officials said. Students and teachers were held hostage in the college section of the Army Public School and College, reports said.

Six Taliban suicide bombers have killed more than a hundred students at an army-run school in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan, officials have said. Students and teachers are still being held hostage in the college section of the Army Public school and College, reports said. (Taliban attack in Pakistan: follow our live coverage)

Militants from Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni released 24 out of 34 university professors and students they held hostage for nearly two weeks, an official said on Monday.

A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said on Saturday.

After holding their headmistress hostage for 21 hours, 29 students of a school in south Kolkata finally lifted their siege on the basis of a promise by higher authorities that their answer scripts would be re-examined. Later in the day, the Higher Secondary Council instructed the school to hold a re-test for the students who had failed. Teachers of...

A pistol-wielding youth on Tuesday stormed a girls' hostel, held a student hostage in order to meet a girl he fell in love with before turning the weapon on himself after being spurned by her in Rajasthan's Jhalwar district.

Forget about safety issues outside the premises, it appears female students face unforeseen threats inside their institutions as well. A B.Com second-year student of Satyawati College of Delhi University (DU) was allegedly held hostage and molested on August 6 by two security guards of the institute inside her classroom after they found her in a co...

Malaysian police stormed a kindergarten and subdued a man who took some 30 children and teachers captive Thursday, ending a nearly seven-hour hostage drama.District police officer Suhaimi Ahmad said all the hostages were safe. He said the man barged into the kindergarten in a residential area of southern Johor state early in the morning, sparking a...

Human rights groups and student organizations that have forced all schools and colleges to shut down.

A four-year-old student was held hostage for hours at his school in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly because his parents had missed the deadline for paying the fee. The owner and the principal of the school in Bulandshahr have been missing since they were charged by the child's family with illegally confining him.

A day after Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University witnessed night-long protests over a missing student, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh ordered the Delhi Police to set up a special team to trace the young man.

Armed dacoits stormed into a law college here and looted cash from the administrative office and assaulted students, police said today.

A University of California, Berkeley sophomore who was among the 20 hostages killed over the weekend by militants in Bangladesh is being remembered as a kind and smart young woman.

The body of 19-year-old Tarishi Jain will be flown to Delhi today. The UC Berkeley student was among the 20 hostages killed in the Dhaka attack. Her funeral will be conducted in Gurgaon.

It was a forced sleepover for the top officials at Kolkata's famous Presidency University who were locked into a room by a group of 50 students opposed to new rules for admission.

Six Taliban suicide bombers who killed over 120 people, mostly students, at an army-run school in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan, are dead, officials said. Students and teachers were held hostage in the college section of the Army Public School and College, reports said.

Six Taliban suicide bombers have killed more than a hundred students at an army-run school in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan, officials have said. Students and teachers are still being held hostage in the college section of the Army Public school and College, reports said. (Taliban attack in Pakistan: follow our live coverage)

Militants from Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni released 24 out of 34 university professors and students they held hostage for nearly two weeks, an official said on Monday.

A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said on Saturday.

After holding their headmistress hostage for 21 hours, 29 students of a school in south Kolkata finally lifted their siege on the basis of a promise by higher authorities that their answer scripts would be re-examined. Later in the day, the Higher Secondary Council instructed the school to hold a re-test for the students who had failed. Teachers of...

A pistol-wielding youth on Tuesday stormed a girls' hostel, held a student hostage in order to meet a girl he fell in love with before turning the weapon on himself after being spurned by her in Rajasthan's Jhalwar district.

Forget about safety issues outside the premises, it appears female students face unforeseen threats inside their institutions as well. A B.Com second-year student of Satyawati College of Delhi University (DU) was allegedly held hostage and molested on August 6 by two security guards of the institute inside her classroom after they found her in a co...

Malaysian police stormed a kindergarten and subdued a man who took some 30 children and teachers captive Thursday, ending a nearly seven-hour hostage drama.District police officer Suhaimi Ahmad said all the hostages were safe. He said the man barged into the kindergarten in a residential area of southern Johor state early in the morning, sparking a...

Human rights groups and student organizations that have forced all schools and colleges to shut down.