'The Delhi government has given a go-ahead to the city police to prosecute former JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and two others in connection with a 2016 sedition case, sources said on Friday. The request for sanction had long since been pending before the home department of the Delhi government...'
'Sri Rama Sene leader and head of Karuneshwara mutt Siddalinga Swami on Saturday courted fresh controversy when he suggested that student protesters should “meet the same fate” as the slain journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. He was speaking at an event by the Yuva Viveka Bharata Sangha and a video of the event emerged on Saturday. "(They are) only 14-15 years, they are talking bad words about Modi and Shah. I think soon they should be made to go where Gauri Lankesh is," Siddalinga Swami said, as the crowd is heard cheering him on...'
'Over 110 scientists on Wednesday appealed to the science and technology ministry to withdraw its offer to fund research to pinpoint ingredients in cow dung, urine and milk for use in medicines, toothpastes and shampoos, saying its call for proposals was “unscientific”. The scientists said the call for proposals document issued by the department of science and technology (DST), a unit of the science ministry, was “flawed” and “will severely undermine the credibility of the Indian scientific establishment as it “presumes the efficacies” of various cow products...'
'...I have carefully listened to the speech Dr Khan made at AMU in December. He has nowhere spoken against any religious community. All that he said was that ‘we (i.e. Indian Muslims) are 25 crore (250 million) people, and we cannot be scared by lynching or making laws’ (“Tumhaari auqaat nahi ki tum humse kuch chheen sakte, hamein daraa sakte, hamein hataa sakte. Hum 25 crore hain”.) Dr Khan was voicing the feelings of many Indian Muslims who have the impression that this government is anti-Muslim.
'Kafeel Khan, the Uttar Pradesh doctor who was jailed after the death of over 60 children at a government hospital in 2017, has been charged under the tough National Security Act (NSA) for a speech against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA at a talk at the Aligarh Muslim University late last year. Dr Khan was granted bail on Monday after he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police last month from the Mumbai airport following a First Information Report (FIR) against him. However, he was yet to be released from the Mauthura jail...'
'The Uttar Pradesh police on late Thursday night slapped the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against Gorakhpur paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan, hours before he was expected to walk free from the Mathura jail, four days after he was granted bail by Aligarh’s chief judicial magistrate...'
'CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s convoy was attacked again in Bihar on Tuesday and a Congress MLA’s car, which was also in the cavalcade, was vandalised by suspected BJP workers. This is the seventh attack on the convoy in two weeks, claimed organisers of the Kumar’s state-wide “Jan Gan Man Yatra” which began last month and is scheduled to conclude a fortnight later with a rally in the state capital...'
'Dr Kafeel Khan, a former paediatrician at the centre of a controversy at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur town, was granted bail by a court in Aligarh district on Monday, his family said. The relief for the doctor came almost two weeks after he was arrested by the state police from Mumbai airport for allegedly making inflammatory remarks during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Aligarh Muslim University in December...'
'The convoy of CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who is on a state-wide tour of Bihar campaigning against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), was attacked on Wednesday evening, police said. The former JNU student leader escaped unhurt in the attack by a stone-pelting mob, though one of the vehicles in his convoy was damaged and its driver injured, Sudhir Kumar Porika, the SP of Special Task Force, who is holding the additional charge of Supaul, told PTI-Bhasha over phone...'
'Ahmedabad-headquartered National Institute of Design (NID) has indefinitely postponed its convocation at the last minute. The invitation cards for the event, which was scheduled for Friday, were sent out and families of graduating students have already assembled in Ahmedabad. Sources said that the reason behind the development is the NID’s decision to invite activist and classical dancer Mallika Sarabhai, a vociferous critic of Narendra Modi from the time he was Gujarat’s chief minister, as chief guest for the event. Mallika is also one of the prominent faces of the anti-CAA...'
