Human resource development ministry, now education ministry, advised Visitor to reject names of the five candidates recommended by search committee...

Student unions protest inclusion of books written by Hindutva icons such as V.D. Savarkar and M.S. Golwalkar for master’s degree in governance and politics...

Diktat comes after professor Gilbert Sebastian was suspended for allegedly saying, in class on 'fascism and Nazism', that RSS-BJP could be considered 'proto-fascist'...

But controlling thought is too attractive a proposition for authoritarian dispensations...

Several academics have termed the move an 'outright attack' on the freedom of researchers and the process of knowledge-gathering...