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How the Supreme Court built a binding legal framework to protect student mental heath

In a case where the father of a NEET aspirant sought fair investigation into the suspicious death of his daughter, the SC in a pivotal July 2025 ruling, apart from intervening on that question went further: in establishing a comprehensive, binding legal framework to protect student mental health across India. An analysis of the Supreme Court judgment in Sukdeb Saha v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.

Our protest, why we want our names removed from NCERT textbooks: Suhas Palshikar

In this interview to MaxMaharashtra, political scientist Suhas Palshikar, a household name has outlined the rational from writing to the union of India in protest, asking for his and Yogendra Yadav’s names removed from NCERT texts

“Embarrassed” with textbooks: Suhas Palshikar, Yogendra Yadav ask NCERT to drop their names

Following recent controversial changes made to political science textbooks, the political scientists wrote to NCERT asking it to drop their names as chief advisors. We feel embarrassed that our names should be mentioned as chief advisors to these mutilated and academically dysfunctional textbooks,” they said.

Ex-judges, bureaucrats, diplomats support inclusion of V.D. Savarkar in DU’s political science syllabus

The group went further: it also supported DU’s decision to drop the philosophy of poet Mohammad Iqbal from the political science syllabus, as he was associated with the idea of a separate Muslim nation

Denial of access: number of Muslim students shows sharp decline: India

Recent reports on education and higher education reveal a staggering decline in the number of Muslims enrolled in all institutes of education

Decimating schools to accommodate Shakhas

The NEP 2020’s position paper on “Knowledge of India” (KI) (January 2022) including `Indian Knowledge Systems’ (IKS) clearly privileges Brahmanical propaganda and hegemonic structures of the past, a past already glorified in the thousands of shakhas[1] run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS)

AISHE survey shows enrolment of Muslim students in higher studies falls significantly compared to other communities

Most significant decline noted in the state of UP, dropout rate of the community also remain the highest

Even after paying, no provision stands for providing health insurance to IIT Bombay students: APPSC

A total of Rs. 2000, with Rs. 1750 as medical fee and Rs. 250 as student accident insurance, is being paid every semester

“Highly appalling to see SIT ignoring rank caste discrimination Darshan faced despite overwhelming evidence”: Ramesh Solanki

Addressing a press conference, family of Darshan Solanki express anguish over the course of the investigation being conducted by the SIT, term it “highly suspicious”

IMSD condemns ‘Maulana’ Sajjad Nomani’s Talibani firman

The cleric prays to Allah to condemn to eternal hell Muslim parents who send their daughters to college unaccompanied

Sajjad Nomani says girls should not be allowed to go to college alone

He spoke in a video uploaded on his Facebook page, speaking about Quran during Ramzan

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