A day after saying communists "deserve" to be beaten up, West Bengal BJP unit Chief Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday waded into controversy yet again by calling the attack on JNU students a "staged" incident and claiming it was yet not proved whether JNSU president Aishe Ghosh had real blood or only colour on her head.

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Just a few hours after the registration process for the new semester was made functional again, Jawaharlal Nehru University witnessed over 800 registrations, taking the total number of registrations to over 3,500.

Informing about the state of registration, JNU Vice Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar Mamidala tweeted on Tuesday, "Today

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said academic endeavours and co-curricular initiatives must attain primacy in universities, and not factionalism and divisive tendencies.

"Universities and educational institutions were pious places of learning where highest standards of decorum must be maintained," said Naidu at

A heartwarming footage in which two Australian teenagers drove around fire-ravaged places to rescue koalas has earned them praise.

The clip shared on Reddit by a user with the handle Steve_OH showed a car in which the wild animals were ferried out of the fire-ravaged Kangaroo Island, which is known as Australia's answer to the

The city police stepped up security and heightened vigil to maintain law and order and prevent untoward incidents during the day-long all-India shutdown on Wednesday, a top police official said.

"The trade unions and others will not be allowed to take processions or disrupt normal life, including taxis, bus and metro rail ser

Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Tuesday repeated his concern on rising number of infants' death in government hospitals, saying that someone will have to take accountability.

"Such cases can reoccur if we do not establish accountability," he said while talking to media.

"It is a ma

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Canada-based University of Saskatchewan's Global Institute for Water Security will jointly conduct a research for water security, an official said on Tuesday.

"We have signed a five-year agreement with the Canadian institute to partner on joint research, training and academic

Protests intensified on Kolkata streets on Tuesday against the violence in Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, as students, celebrities and Left politicians matched steps. They also opposed the new citizenship law and a proposed nationwide NRC.

A large number of cultural personalities and literary figures joined a huge march

Even as Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), here on Tuesday, to show solidarity with students, the JNUSU president was unmoved and targeted the actor for not speaking at the meet.

"When you are in a position you should speak up," JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh said after the actor

The Centre has amended the Cadre Allocation Policy (CAP) 2017 for the all-India services -- Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS).

The modification in CAP-2017 shall be applicable to civil services examination from 2019 onwards, said an office memorandum issued by the Mini