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Attention India, some RSS affiliated pages are spreading false news on-line about the tragedy at Puttingal temple in Kerala. The twitter account titled 'Om Hindu Kranti RSS' have tweeted that the attack is planned and executed by Muslim members of CPM. Supporting to that supreme leaders and some followers have retweeted and spreading same hateful content accusing Muslim members of left party. Meanwhile, entire people in the state are working together in the rescue operation with no difference of political and religious ideologies.

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While your struggle may by for the rights of the students, to speak to express and to question to criticize or to stand against what you call as ‘fascist regime’, the student activism in the state of Jammu and Kashmir is pitched against imperialism that has not ended for the citizens of the Paradise on earth. J&K is an occupied territory, a colony of India, which happens to be ‘Your Country” not accepted by the people of my state as theirs. The first and the last point of any struggle in the state of J&K is freedom from occupation and the right to self-determination.

Three Manipuri Muslim boys were brutally beaten up at Mayang Imphal Yangbi Garden on Thursday around 4:30 pm. The shocking incident took place after these boys came out from the garden. Two of them have died and one was luckily saved but seriously injured. The two dead boys were identified as Md, Sadam, 23 (s/o Md. Basiruddin ) and Md. Farooque, 22 (s/o Md. Badaruddin) from Lilong Kaleikhong while another boy Md.Zabir,19 (s/o Abdul Hakim) of Lilong Awang Leikai was severely injured and admitted to hospital. All are students.

In an incident-packed the day at AP High Court justice Sanjaykumar slammed the university of Hyderabad for its authoritarian stand in recent happenings.

Photo Album - Bilal Veliancode   Bilal is a second-year masters student in the department of history , Hyderabad Central University Photo Courtesy - Facebook

According to the FIR filed by her parents, there were only 4 girls at the hostel as all the other girls had gone home and had not returned by then. She came back along with her father on the morning of 28th. Later in the evening, at 8 pm, she called her father and said that their Warden Priya Shukla had sent her to the PT Instructor's room, to be his helper, with the excuse of cleaning the hostel. There she was raped by him. She seemed very scared while narrating the incident, according to her parents.

The accounts I hear from you as well as from my Indian friends about police violence in university campuses, whether in JNU or in HCU, is very disturbing. You have my complete sympathy and support. This kind of authoritarian behavior will definitely damage India’s reputation internationally. All good wishes to you and your comrades, - Talal Asad

We must not be apologetic about 1984 massacre but must unequivocally condemn it. We shouldn't leave this space for the right-wing to milk, because, while the right-wing pretends to be concerned about 1984, they are actually only shielding Modi over 2002, and nothing else. Ask them if they oppose the Operation Blue Star itself, and they will have no answers. While we stand united in the students' struggles against fascism, we must keep healthy debate and discussion alive, as that is what characterises the Left. ''

If you think Apparao is not guilty of the serious crime he was charged with, pushing Rohith Vemula to death, until he was proved guilty by the courts and until then he can not only avoid arrest, and even become VC, without even trying to follow the basic protocol such a thing requires, you are not at all with us. Or if you believe that Apparao is an oppressor then there is no point in suggesting to us or framing ASA – JAC response as 'violence'.

They were mercilessly thrashed by the police and have also been charged with Section 153A (inciting communal sentiments), along with the arrested students. The girls and the minors have been given bail, but the others have been remanded to 14 days judicial custody! This is sheer abuse of law and must be condemned and resisted. The local MP and MLAs should intervene in getting the charges removed. How can students be charged for inciting communal sentiments when they are simply protesting for their fellow students in HCU? In all probability, these charges will not even result in a charge sheet, but work fine as a harassment tactic. Shame on Kerala police and administration for such treatment of innocent students

Further, we are informed that the first decision taken by the Vice Chancellor upon his return was to defer the meeting of the Academic Council on Thursday (March 24), which was convened by the in-charge Vice Chancellor to discuss the setting up of an anti-discrimination committee on the campus, to ensure adequate representation of SCs and STs on various committees of the university and to consider the proposal to increase the non-NET fellowship from Rs. 8,000 to Rs. 25,000 per month on parity with the Junior Research Fellowship in the country. The in-charge Vice Chancellor has reportedly pleaded that he had no knowledge of the Vice Chancellor returning to assume charge of the university.