Ritika Chopra

In the last six months, Ashok Lavasa's wife Novel Singhal Lavasa, an ex-banker, sister Shakuntala Lavasa, a paediatrician, and son Abir Lavasa have been served I-T notices.

The action followed a meeting of police officials with the EC on January 31, where the police officials are learnt to have been pulled up over handling of the law and order situation, especially in Shaheen Bagh, said sources.

Sitharaman allocated Rs 99,300 crore for education — a hike of 4.6 per cent over Rs 94,855 crore last year. Of this, Rs 39,466 crore is set aside for higher education and Rs 59,845 crore for school education.

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According to the proposed amendment to the Representation of the People Act, the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) may ask those seeking to enter the voters’ list and those already enrolled to furnish their Aadhaar numbers.

Speaking to The Sunday Express from Dresden, Lindenthal said he is still keen on finishing his programme at IIT-Madras, but has been advised by the Indian embassy in Germany to not use his current visa, valid till June 27 this year, to go back to India.

Our ministry is talking to both the teachers and the students. JNU is an important institution and its alumni have made the country proud, says Ramesh Pokhriyal.

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V-C was told to accept Ministry formula or resign. Following the ultimatum on December 11, Kumar is learned to have agreed to the compromise, but he backtracked a day later.

The Ministry also advised the university not to “precipitate” the matter by pursuing police cases and disciplinary action against the students. “The idea is not to close the university, but ensure that things return to normal,” a Ministry official said.

Sharma hit the headlines last month when he complained against a students' demonstration on campus, where a poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz was read to express solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia.

Hangloo was under the ministry’s scanner for alleged financial, academic and administrative irregularities, and was issued a showcause notice in 2016.

Last week, the 20 IIMs requested the HRD Ministry to add them to the list of “Institutions of Excellence” mentioned in the Schedule to the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Act 2019.

Tewari is a professor of Agriculture and Food Engineering at IIT-Kharagpur. He has been teaching at the institute since 1990.

The IT Department has flagged “discrepancies” between the income tax returns of Novel Lavasa for the financial year 2017-18 and registered transfer deeds of the Gurgaon property to Haryana’s Additional Chief Secretary and Financial Commissioner.

In a detailed response to questions shared by this newspaper, Shakuntala Lavasa, Ashok Lavasa’s sister and a paediatrician, said she had paid Stamp Duty of Rs 10,42,220 on the Gurugram property transferred in her name.

JMI Vice-Chancellor Najma Akhtar met the higher education secretary Amit Khare Tuesday and handed over a report on the Sunday incident.

The minutes state that the agenda item on reform of MTech programmes will be “further discussed in the next meeting of the IIT Council”.