A prominent university in Uttar Pradesh has suspended 67 of its students from Kashmir and sent them back home for celebrating Pakistan`s victory over India in a Asia Cup match on Sunday.

The development was confirmed to the media by Dr Manzoor Ahmad the Vice-chancellor of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University (SVSU) on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters, Ahmad said, “I was taken aback by such an unacceptable gesture of a few students.”

However, the top officials have now ordered an inquiry into the matter.

The group of Kashmiri students who were suspended had watched the India-Pakistan cricket match in the Madan Dhingra Hall in the University on Sunday. The group cheered every time an Indian wicket fell and later went on to celebrate the victory of Pakistan.

“The students were suspended for creating a ruckus on campus and shouting pro-Pakistan slogans, which caused tension on the campus,” RK Garg, the University Registrar, told a leading Hindi news channel.

The varsity authorities were expecting the students to apologise. But when that did not happen, they took the decision of suspending them.

The authorities had reported the matter to the police after realising that anger was brewing among the local students living in other hostels after the Kashmiri students celebrated Pakistan`s victory and shouted slogans in the campus.

It is learnt that more than 200 girls and boys from different parts of Jammu and Kashmir are pursuing various courses in the university. “The decision to suspend the students was taken by the varsity authorities without consulting the police or the district administration,” the SSP said.

Though few parents are happy with the step taken by the authorities. “There was a heated argument between some students but most students are innocent, so we think college did a good thing by sending them to valley in order to avoid any clashes,” said a parent.

Angry workers of Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party faced water cannons from the police when they protested at the BJP’s headquarters in Delhi this evening.

The demonstration was held after Mr. Kejriwal was detained briefly by the police in Gujarat in the western town of Radhanpur, hours after national elections were announced.

The 45-year-old is on a four-day tour of Gujarat where he says he will conduct on-the-ground checks of the extensive development of the state that has been highlighted by Narendra Modi and the BJP in his campaign for prime minister.

Mr. Kejriwal was detained for failing to adhere to an election code of conduct that requires prior police permission. He described the encounter as harassment ordered by Mr. Modi.

“Kejriwal did not have permission for a rally or procession, hence was detained for violation of code of conduct which came into force from today,” the senior magistrate of the local district told.

“He was not there to hold any election rally. He had only gone there to watch and observe the development that Modi is claiming has taken place in the state,” countered Kumar Vishwas, a senior leader from the Aam Aadmi Party.

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday ordered judicial probe into the 28th February Kanpur incident, which led to the doctors’ strike in Uttar Pradesh.

Taking suo moto cognisance of the incident, the High Court ordered transfer of SSP, Kanpur, Yashaswi Yadav.

The HC also directed the striking doctors to return to hospitals and continue their work.

Taking suo motu cognisance, the Lucknow bench comprising justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and Devendra Kumar Upadhaya clarified that the order of transfer is only to resolve the situation and should not be taken as a “stigma” on the officials, while requesting the doctors to resume their duties immediately.

The HC’s order comes after there was no positive outcome of the talks between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and a team of doctors last night.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has announced to go on an all-India strike from Thursday.

The IMA gave a 48-hour ultimatum to the Akhilesh Yadav government to fulfil its demands– arrest of SP MLA Irfan Solanki allegedly involved in the Friday clash, action against SSP Yashasvi Yadav and withdrawal of charges against 24 junior doctors, who were granted bail last night but refused to come out of jail.

An IMA delegation yesterday President Pranab Mukherjee seeking action against Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kanpur Yashaswi Yadav and the legislator.

Patients across Uttar Pradesh continued to suffer as the strike by doctors entered its sixth day. Junior doctors and other medical practitioners have struck work in many parts of the state following arrest of two dozen junior doctors in Kanpur after a scuffle with a Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator.

Congress on Wednesday said that it is still open for an alliance with K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) even after it ruled out the possibility of its merger with the grand old party ahead of the upcoming General Elections.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh tweeted this morning, “We are happy on 2nd June dream of statehood for Telangana will come true, now we must fulfill the promises made to Telangana & Seemandhra.”

On the issue of TRS ruling out a merger with Congress, Singh posted, “TRS ruling out merger is an issue with them. Would have welcomed merger as it was promised. We are opened for an alliance also.”

Through his tweets, Singh also rejected accusations of policy paralysis within the Congress-led government.

“Our government has brought the maximum number of bills and you say there’s policy paralysis,” his tweet said.

Singh also attacked AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, who he said had betrayed his mentor Anna Hazare.

“Arvind Kejriwal is a product of Anna Hazare’s agitation and he has already ditched Anna. No one knows Arvind Kejriwal’s ideology. Sometimes he makes pro-corporate statements, sometimes against them,” Singh said.

The reactions from the senior Congress leader came days after TRS led by KCR ruled out any possibility of merger with the grand old party ahead of the upcoming General Elections.

Addressing party members on Monday, Chandrasekhar Rao said, “No merger with Congress under any circumstance.”

Rao was critical of the attitude of the Congress and the Centre saying even before the ink on the President’s assent to the AP Reorganisation Bill had dried, the UPA government had come out with an Ordinance giving a special category status to the residuary state while denying it to the new state of Telangana.

This, he said, was an undemocratic move which would be challenged in the Supreme Court. He also said that the TRS had cooperated in the passage of the bill because it did not want to be seen as an obstacle in the creation of the new state.

Less than a fortnight after 11 parties stitched up a third front to take on the Congress and the BJP in the general elections beginning next month, it is coming apart at the seams with J Jayalalithaa refusing to give in to ally Left’s demand for six seats in a seat-sharing pact in Tamil Nadu.

The Tamil Nadu chief minister has told the CPM and CPI that she is willing to give them only a seat apiece to contest in her state. The Left parties had in February announced that they were extending to this year’s elections, their alliance with her AIADMK in the assembly elections three years ago.

On her 66th birthday last week, Ms Jayalalithaa seemed to have forgotten that pact when she released a list of party candidates for all the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and the one seat in Puducherry. But she later said there would be changes to factor in her seat-sharing deal with the Left.

Thrice as tall as Qutab Minar, Uttar Pradesh famous pilgrimage site Vrindavan is all set to get the world’s tallest temple towering 70-storey long with marvelous infrastructure in its work plan.

The temple will be located alongside Yamuna River in the Mathura region. Nearly 60 acres of land has been allotted for the religious site which be constructed in four phases. The foundation stone will be laid on March 16.

The authorities have set aside Rs. 150 crore for construction of temple during its first phase. Moreover, as per the plan, temple’s guest house will contain 500 rooms.