Women constituted only eight percent of the total 1,618 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha polls, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that......
Grappling with the intractable issue of Aligarh Muslim University's minority status, the Supreme Court said on Thursday the 1981 amendment to the AMU Act, which effectively accorded it a minority......
The three people, who were part of an ISI-sponsored module "disguised" as an ISIS module and arrested on Monday, have completed their graduation in engineering and one of them was currently......
These self-appointed well-wishers of AMU are basically for the control or police model of university governance.They have no faith whatsoever in the democratic functioning of the universities,......
The police on Wednesday registered an FIR against an Aligarh Muslim University professor who referred to examples of 'rape' in Hindu mythology during a forensic science class, provoking accusations......
It is well-known that the following seven engineering colleges were chosen for possible conversion to Indian Institutes of Technology / Institutes of National Importance:Aligarh Muslim University......
The author is a chemical engineering graduate from IT-BHU and an MS from Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has interacted with the HRD ministry, the IIT board, and the IIT Selection Committee at......
Seven select engineering colleges, that are soon to attain the coveted IIT status, are back in the news.The seriousness of their march towards achieving the status of an Indian Institute of......
It is now well known that the S K Joshi Committee has selected seven colleges/universities for potential upgrading to Indian Institutes of Technology.The committee took into account parameters like......
The Indian Institutes of Technology are in the news again. Earlier this month, newspaper reports revealed the names of seven short-listed colleges to be converted into IITs, as per the S K Joshi......
'I somehow felt that Muzaffar Ali was in Aligarh to feel the pulse of the Muslim youth, especially in the darker and harsher times that India is passing through,' notes Mohammad Sajjad. IMAGE:......
'The Elephant Whisperers is a hopeful story of respect and cooperation with nature in an era rife with conflict and threat to our beautiful planet.' IMAGE: 'There was never a moment when......
Manoj Bajpayee gives his character a lot of soul and sensitivity in Aligarh, feels Sukanya Verma. In Tom Ford’s A Single Man, a college professor tells his class how 'a minority is only......
'It is always wonderful to discover a gem of film at an international film festival. It is even more exciting when that film is from India.' Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com lists his favourite movies at......
On September 13, 2010, filmmakers Bedabrata Pain and Shonali Bose lost their 16-year-old son Ishan in a freak accident involving an electric razor. After his shocking defeat in a prolonged court......