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Union Home Minister Amit Shah says “a major narrative is being built... a misconception is being spread” that the southern States will lose seats in the Lok Sabha due to delimitation

No fatality reported, says Guntur SP, adding that a case has been registered and an inquiry is underway

HRD Minister calls for stringent measures for the implementation of face recognition-based attendance in higher education institutions from the coming academic year

Amit Shah says those spreading ‘misconceptions... do not understand’; he tells Lok Sabha that seats of five southern States will increase from 129 to 195 and reassures people of Tamil Nadu that their ‘power is increasing’

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged all deleted voters to apply to the tribunals and assured them that they will get their rights reinstated; she said a supplementary list for the first phase of elections will be published on 21st April and the second phase on April 27, as per the Supreme Court order

The Bill lists out about 30 ways in which atrocities may be committed against an SC/ST student in a higher education institution

The government’s intention was to push through delimitation in the garb of the Women’s Reservation Bill, the Congress general secretary says in Lok Sabha; he adds that PM Narendra Modi did not mention the word “delimitation” even once in his speech during the debate on the Bill, when that was the main issue being raised by the Opposition

The death of a student of Kannur Dental College has raised disturbing questions about caste discrimination on Kerala’s college campuses. The college has dismissed a faculty member and suspended another, pending inquiry. The incident led to an outpouring of related complaints from other students. The bereaved family, the student’s college-mates, faculty, and activists express their views

Parag Madhukar Dhakate, Special Secretary in the Minority Welfare Department, has directed district magistrates of Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital to undertake extensive verification drives across all madrasas in their jurisdictions.

While endorsing their party line, women legislators also cite the positive role of male founders and leaders of their parties in enabling the participation of women in jobs, education, and politics