Five arrested with brown sugar in Odisha
July 5th, 2012 - 1:12 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, July 5 (IANS) Four engineering students and another man have been arrested in Odisha with brown sugar or pure heroin worth over Rs.80,000 in the international market, police said ... Read more...
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New York polytechnic honours Sam Pitroda
May 19th, 2012 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS
New York, May 19 (IANS) Polytechnic Institute of New York University, America's second-oldest private engineering school, has conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering on Sam Pitroda, adviser ... Read more...
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Five engineering students held for robbery
March 4th, 2012 - 11:23 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, March 4 (IANS) At least five students of a private engineering college here were arrested Sunday for robbing bus passengers at knifepoint, official said.The youth, all aged 19, told ... Read more...
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Engineering students arrested for topper classmate’s murder
March 1st, 2012 - 12:15 am ICT by IANS
Hisar (Haryana), Feb 29 (IANS) Two days after they allegedly shot dead their classmate in front of their college, two students of a private engineering college have been arrested by ... Read more...
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Medical student suspended for ragging
January 3rd, 2012 - 11:18 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Jan 3 (IANS) A senior medical college student was suspended in Rajasthan after some junior students accused him and his friends of ragging, an official said Tuesday.The alleged ragging ... Read more...
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Student commits suicide, cremated without autopsy
November 27th, 2011 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Nov 27 (IANS) The body of an engineering student, who allegedly had committed suicide, was cremated without an autopsy -- mandatory for a mysterious death -- as the police ... Read more...
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Students arrested for killing old couple
November 8th, 2011 - 11:42 am ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Nov 8 (IANS) Three students have been arrested for allegedly murdering the retired principal of a government polytechnic institute and his wife with sharp edged weapons in Uttar Pradesh's ... Read more...
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Anonymous email threatens to bomb Lucknow station
September 26th, 2011 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Sep 26 (IANS) Tension prevailed at the Charbagh railway station here after a local TV channel claimed to have received an email Monday threatening to blow up the station.No ... Read more...
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No helmets, no classes for Madhya Pradesh students
May 11th, 2011 - 12:45 am ICT by IANS
Bhopal, May 10 (IANS) Students riding their two-wheelers to colleges in Madhya Pradesh will now be denied entry if they are not wearing helmets, the state's education minister said Tuesday."We ... Read more...
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Engineering studies to cost more in Karnataka
May 2nd, 2011 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 2 (IANS) Engineering students getting admission to private colleges under the government quota will have to shell out Rs.2,500 more per year as fee, taking the annual ... Read more...
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Students clash with police in Bulandshahr
April 29th, 2011 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh), April 28 (IANS) Agitated over being allotted low marks in their exams due to poor attendance, a large number of students of a private engineering college in ... Read more...
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Tech student hangs himself in Uttar Pradesh
February 23rd, 2011 - 3:14 pm ICT by IANS
Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 23 (IANS) A first-year B.Tech student of a private engineering college, upset over a family dispute, hanged himself from the ceiling fan of his room in the ... Read more...
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Jagan launches weeklong fast on fee reimbursement issue
February 18th, 2011 - 2:26 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Feb 18 (IANS) Former Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Friday launched a weeklong hunger strike here demanding that the Andhra Pradesh government immediately release funds for the reimbursement of students' fees. ... Read more...
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Four engineering students booked for friend’s death
November 23rd, 2010 - 10:30 pm ICT by IANS
Ghaziabad, Nov 23 (IANS) Four B. Tech students of a private engineering college in Ghaziabad were booked for causing death of a fellow student by negligence in Masuri area, police said Tuesday. ... Read more...
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Engineering student hospitalised after ragging in hostel
September 9th, 2010 - 1:09 pm ICT by IANS
Kota (Rajasthan), Sep 9 (IANS) A Gujarat youth studying at a private engineering college here has been hospitalised for depression after he was harassed and not allowed to sleep for two nights ... Read more...
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Student found dead in Noida college
August 19th, 2010 - 12:55 am ICT by IANS
Noida, Aug 18 (IANS) A 21-year-old B.Tech student of a private engineering college died under mysterious circumstances on the campus situated in Sector-62 here, police said Wednesday.
Rahul Dhameja, a third year B.Tech ... Read more...
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Punjab to train 52,000 youth with technical skills
August 17th, 2010 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Aug 17 (IANS) With growing demand from the industry for technically skilled personnel, the Punjab government Tuesday announced a scheme to train nearly 52,000 youth from the state under a comprehensive ... Read more...
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Students torch vehicles to protest fellow scholar’s death (Lead)
August 11th, 2010 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 11 (IANS) Students of a private engineering college in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district Wednesday went on a rampage and torched three college buses and several private vehicles to protest the ... Read more...
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Students torch vehicles to protest fellow scholar’s death
August 11th, 2010 - 4:47 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 11 (IANS) Students of a private engineering college in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district Wednesday went on a rampage and torched three college buses and several private vehicles to protest the ... Read more...
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Woman complains to rights panel against Andhra legislator
February 22nd, 2010 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Feb 22 (IANS) A woman in Andhra Pradesh Monday approached the State Human Rights Commission complaining that a legislator of the ruling Congress party was harassing her husband.
According to the complaint ... Read more...
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Two engineering students held with heroin worth Rs.10 mn
February 17th, 2010 - 2:25 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Feb 17 (IANS) Two engineering students have been arrested with heroin worth Rs.10 million (Rs.1 crore) in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district, police said Wednesday.
Deepak Rawat and Danish, both in their third ... Read more...
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Indian Oil fire: Deora says no option but to let fuel burn
October 30th, 2009 - 11:16 am ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Oct 30 (IANS) Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said there is no option but to let all the fuel burn at the Indian Oil Corp depot here where containers and tankers went ... Read more...
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3 killed, 70 injured in Indian Oil depot blaze in Jaipur (Lead)
October 30th, 2009 - 1:19 am ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Oct 29 (IANS) At least three people were killed and 70 injured when a major fire broke out at an Indian Oil depot in Sitapura industrial area near here Thursday evening. ... Read more...
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60 injured in major fire at Indian Oil depot in Jaipur
October 30th, 2009 - 12:13 am ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Oct 29 (IANS) At least 60 people were injured when a major fire broke out at an Indian Oil depot in Sitapura industrial area near here Thursday evening. Many of the ... Read more...
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Uttar Pradesh to make ragging cognizable offence
October 13th, 2009 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Oct 13 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh cabinet Tuesday decided to make ragging a cognizable offence, an official spokesman said.
The new law would be named 'Ragging in Educational Institutions Ordinance, ... Read more...
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Utkal University, hit by campus violence, reopens Thursday
September 10th, 2009 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Sep 10 (IANS) Twenty days after it was closed following violence, the Utkal University reopened Thursday after the varsity authorities decided to revoke the sine die closure.
The decision to resume ... Read more...
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Six students in Uttar Pradesh detained for ragging
September 10th, 2009 - 4:17 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Sep 10 (IANS) Six students of a private engineering college have been detained for allegedly ragging a student in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said Thursday.
Police detained the six students, who ... Read more...
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Two engineering students abducted in Bhopal, one raped
September 7th, 2009 - 1:34 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Sep 7 (IANS) Two women, who are students of an engineering college here, were abducted by a relative and his friends and one of them was raped, police said Monday. ... Read more...
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Students’ agitation in Orissa spreads to other areas
August 26th, 2009 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Aug 25 (IANS) The students agitation in Orissa following union poll violence in Utkal University has spread to other districts of the state, snowballing into a political clash between the ruling ... Read more...
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Four fresh swine flu cases in Uttar Pradesh
August 19th, 2009 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 19 (IANS) Four new swine flu cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday, taking the total number of influenza A (H1N1) patients in the state to 33, health officials ... Read more...
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Apex court suspends Allahabad High Court’s anti-quota order
August 11th, 2009 - 9:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday suspended an Allahabad High Court order that restrained the Uttar Pradesh government from implementing 50 percent reservations in private engineering colleges.
A bench of ... Read more...
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Court stays quota in Uttar Pardesh’s private engineering colleges
August 7th, 2009 - 10:22 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 7 (IANS) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Friday stayed the Uttar Pradesh government's order introducing 50 percent reservation in private engineering colleges of the state.
A division ... Read more...
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Technical colleges told to resume quota
July 23rd, 2009 - 4:46 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, July 23 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday instructed all privately-run engineering and management colleges to resume reservation of seats for students from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward ... Read more...
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‘Most private colleges are money-spinning factories’
July 1st, 2009 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS
By K. S. Jayaraman
Bangalore, July 1 (IANS) The proposed oversight body for higher education is a "welcome development", says Pushpa Bhargava, former vice-chairman of the Knowledge Commission. According to him, ... Read more...
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High court stays NRIs’ admission against reserved seats
June 18th, 2009 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, June 18 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the admissions of Non-Residential Indians (NRIs)to private engineering colleges of the state against reserved seats on a 'first come first serve' ... Read more...
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