Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday faced a silent protest by some 30 students dressed in black and carrying posters when he visited the IIT Madras. Modi, who flew from one venue to another to avoid the threatened black flag protests over the Cauvery issue, could not escape it at[Read More…]
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Beef fest at IIT: Protests intensifies, 9 students booked for assaulting PhD scholar
On Wednesday, hundreds of student and political activists staged a protest in Chennai against a ban on cow slaughter and alleged attack of an IIT Madras scholar for engaging in a campus beef festival. A procession initiated by a section of IIT-M student was observed which demanded action against the[Read More…]
PhD student thrashed by ABVP for attending ‘beef fest’
On Tuesday, a PhD scholar was allegedly assaulted by a group of ABVP members for attending a ‘beef fest’. The student, identified as R Sooraj, suffered severe injuries and sustained a fracture in his right eye. The AVBP members have even alleged issued death threats to all the ‘beef eaters’[Read More…]
IIT Madras site hacked, pro-Pakistan message posted on its page
The website of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras has been hacked and pro-Pakistan messages were posted on it that left its students in rude shock. The website apparently was hacked by one ‘Faisal 1337x’. Hackers put the photo of the famed joker from Batman movie “Dark Knight” in the[Read More…]