The protest date coincides with the anniversary of the Poona Pact, which replaced the separate-electorate proposal for the Depressed Classes with reserved seats under a joint electorate.
In the wake of this profound tragedy, intense protests erupted across the institute’s campus, with students demanding strict punitive action against the esteemed faculty member.
The Karnataka Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is investigating multiple allegations against the KPSC, including the manipulation of recruitment examinations and the leakage of question papers.
In 2023, the Centre revealed that 61 students had died by suicide across IITs, NITs, and IIMs during the preceding five years. A closer look at the caste-based breakup of these 61 deaths dismantles the idea that suicides are exclusive to any single community.
Before the recent actions in West Bengal and Uttarakhand, Assam had already taken some of the country's most significant steps to change the madrassa education system.
The biggest achievement of the summit was the unanimous adoption of the New Delhi Declaration. The 45-page document contains 140 points and covers a wide range of political, economic and developmental issues.
The siege of higher education campuses by radical factions highlights how deeply Islamists have taken root on American soil. This ideological transformation is backed by massive foreign financial infiltration.
BAPS also describes this as a personal spiritual discipline rather than a rejection of women, and says its sadhus are taught to respect women. Its published material gives examples of sadhus avoiding situations where their religious vows could not be maintained.