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'Insufficient': Kerala HC on state's present anti-ragging measures
Kochi, Mar 5: Expressing concern at the present set of ragging laws, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday orally pointed out that rules need to be framed under the Kerala Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1998, to effectively tackle the menace.
Kerala HC to set up special bench for hearing ragging cases
Kochi, March 4: The Kerala High Court said on Tuesday that it will constitute a special bench to hear ragging cases in the state.
Shashi Tharoor condemns ragging incident in Kerala college, calls it appalling
Thiruvananthapuram, February 19: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday expressed concern over an alleged ragging incident at The Government College, Kariavattom, calling it "appalling".
Seven SFI students suspended in new ragging case, Kerala Minister to meet principals
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 18: Seven senior students belonging to the Student's Federation of India (SFI) at the Government College Kariavattom here have been suspended after a complaint of ragging was reported.
Kerala: BJP workers protest outside Kottayam College over ragging incident; police use water cannons
Kottayam, February 15: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers held a protest outside the Government Nursing College in Kottayam, Kerala on Saturday over the ragging incident in which five senior students were arrested.
Kerala ragging: Four fresh complaints lodged, five accused banned from studying
Kottayam, Feb 15: The further studies of the five arrested third-year nursing students, currently in jail for ragging first-year student at the state-run Nursing College hostel in Kottayam, have been stopped. The Nursing Council made this decision on Saturday and informed the Health Department and the State Government.
Kerala: ABVP, CPI(M) protest over ragging incident at Kottayam Government Nursing College
Kottayam, February 14: Students from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) staged protests on Friday over the alleged ragging incident at Kottayam Government Nursing College.
Nursing college students suspended: Kerala health minister Veena George on ragging incident
Thiruvananthapuram, February 14: Kerala health minister Veena George on Friday said that the five students arrested for allegedly ragging their juniors have been suspended from Kottayam Nursing College and that the state government will ensure maximum action against them.
Kerala ragging: Disband SFI, demands LoP Satheesan
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 14: Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, V.D. Satheesan, on Friday urged the CPI-M to disband its student organisation -- the Students Federation of India (SFI) -- following a gruesome ragging incident at the state-run Nursing College hostel in Kottayam.
Ragging horror: Role of Kerala nursing college authorities being probed
Kottayam, Feb 13: Kottayam SP Shahul Hameed on Thursday said the detailed probe has begun into the ragging incident in which five third-year students of the state-run Nursing College in Kottayam were arrested.
Kerala HC rules ragging worse than vandalism, stays re-admission of accused Veterinary students
Kochi, Feb 5: A divisional bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday stayed the order of the single judge which allowed the re-admission of 18 students at the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Mannuthy who were implicated as accused in the suicide of junior student J. S.
Premier Kolkata medical institute slapped with show-cause notice by UGC
Kolkata, Feb 1: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has slapped a show-cause notice on Kolkata's iconic Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, often popularly referred to as the S.S.K.M. Medical College & Hospital for failure to submit an "anti-ragging declaration" lists from their students and their guardians to it.