“I have to get seven months of my fellowship, one lakh and seventy five thousand rupees. Please see to it that my family is paid that …” January 17, 2016. The suicide note of Dalit Ph.D. scholar Rohith Vemula highlights how the delays in government ....

Soon after he completed his one year PhD (Science Technology and Societal Studies) coursework in June 2015, Mr. Vemula could neither pursue his research nor political activism because he had been tied down by three ongoing investigations, one conducted by the Gachibowli ....

Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Smriti Irani, whose Ministry sent at least four reminders to the Vice-Chancellor of UoH on the clash between five students of the Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) te ....

This prejudice has now exacted a terrible price. One of the five, a scholar of great promise, Rohith Vemula, committed suicide on January 17. Unable to bear the despair of having his one chance at a future snatched from him, of his value being reduced, in his own eloque ....

With the BJP notified January 24 as the date for the filing and scrutiny of nominations for the post of party chief, Amit Shah seems all set to be elected for a full three-year term. The saffron party’s convention is that just one consensus candidate files the nomi ....

U.S. officials and congressional aides involved in discussions say the Homeland Security Department will outline how it will phase in the new rule, designed to make it harder for Europeans who have fought for the Islamic State to enter the United States. The law pass ....

 The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State’s relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. For 1,400 years, the compound survived assaults by nature and man, standing as a place of ....

Media reported that three gunmen entered the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and opened fire on students and teachers in classrooms and hostels. Pakistan, which has suffered from years of militant violence, has killed and ....

Lloyd Rudolph, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, died January 16, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. of prostate cancer. He was 88. He had a long and distinguished career almost entirely in collaboration with his wife and fellow UChicago Political Science Professor, Susanne Ho ....

A senior Pakistani Taliban commander claimed responsibility for the assault in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, but an official spokesman later denied involvement, calling the attack “un-Islamic.” The violence nevertheless shows militants retain the ability t ....