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Ali Khan Mahmudabad reacts to the clockmaking 14-year-old, Ahmed Khan who was briefly criminally detained by saying that he stands for "...All the Ahmeds not just in America but around the world who are innocent victims of institutional and individual prejudice..."
Main News
The All India Council For Technical Education plans to lop off 60,000 engineering seats across colleges to balance "supply and demand."
Upset over Nepal's newly promulgated Constitution, New Delhi wants Kathmandu to carry out 'seven amendments' to ensure it is acceptable to the Madhesis and Janjatis.
Volkswagen, trying to weather the storm over the recall of several of its car models, is trying to assure shareholders that only part of its revenue line has been hit.
The SEBI imposed its highest-ever penalty of Rs 7,269.5 crore on Pearls Agrotech Corporation Limited (PACL) and its four directors for illegal and fraudulent mobilisation of funds from the public.
Off The Front Page
The Health Ministry released a version of the National Health Profile, which in respect of the state of cancer, was a copy of last year's. This, the government said, was due to the lack of updated data.
A Delhi Police constable, posted as the personal security officer of a BJP MP, was arrested last week for allegedly losing his service revolver along with 12 cartridges after he passed out at a party.
Going the Tamil Nadu way, the Rajasthan assembly passed two bills granting 5% reservation to Gujjar-led special backward classes (SBC) and 14% to economically backward classes (EBC), taking the total quota quantum in the state to a staggering 68%.
Gurgaon observed the first 'Car-Free Tuesday' that saw 10,000 fewer cars on its roads.
Hardik Patel, leader of the Patel reservation movement in Gujarat, gave police the slip on Tuesday when they tried to detain him for organising a public meeting without prior permission at a village in Aravalli district.
Opinion
Christophe Jaffrelot says that RSS has heavily borrowed ideas from the West, especially Germany. "Similarly, 'good' science, including history, is not the sole preserve of the West or the East. It is that which passes the test of reason. Countries that have ignored this simple reality have usually become obscurantist."
TK Ramachandran says that religious stampedes happen because principles of 'crowd computing' are ignored.
TCA Srinivasa Raghavan says that those who write in English should respect the sensibilities of its 'native speakers.' He says that "After all, a Tamilian writing in Bengali will never sound right if he tries to sound like a Tamilian writing in Bengali. He must, if he wants to sound credible, make the effort to sound like a Bengali; you know, self-obsessed, self-indulgent and intelligent."
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