Education

Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, expressed resentment against making students chant bhajans and asking them to perform ‘surya namaskar’ in schools. MMU, an association of around 30 Islamic religious and educational organisations in Kashmir, seeked for the ban of such impositions, stating that it is hurting the religious sentiments of Muslim students. Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti also commented on it, calling… read-more

In Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur region, an under-construction of Islamia University collapsed on September 21 night. Two people buried under the debris of the collapsed building were rescued safely confirmed the concerned officials. Furthermore, the NDRF, SDRF and State Management are continuing rescue operations in the region, said Gaurav Grover, Superintendent of Police of Gorakhpur. Moreover, UP CM Yogi Adityanath condemned the incident and… read-more

In Telangana’s Asifabad, 31 students fell ill and were admitted to a hospital after consuming contaminated half cook food at the hostel mess. On September 19, the students of a Kagaznagar Minority Residential School in Kumurabheem-Asifabad district were shifted to hospital, after they reportedly fell ill due to food poisoning. … read-more

Acting upon the directions of Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, the Police formed a three-member all-women special investigation team to probe the Mohali's Chandigarh university video leak incident. Notably, opn September 19, the SIT team started investigating allegations levelled by students of Chandigarh University that a hosteller had recorded several objectionable videos of women students in the common washroom. Furthermore, the recorded video has… read-more

In Mohali, protests continued in Chandigarh University over the alleged 'leaked objectional videos', by a girl. On September 19, the Deputy Inspector General of Police GS Bhullar spoke to the protesting students and tried to pacify them saying "implicit faith is necessary" and "law is being followed". The DIG said, "We will keep coming to you, implicit faith is necessary". The police also dismissed the suicide rumours.