Medicos asked to vacate hostel for feeding stray dogs

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here Saturday withdrew a month-old order rusticating nine students for two years from academics for ragging juniors and reduced their punishment. Those who were rusticated for two years from academics have been asked to continue education but they cannot stay in the hostel for two years, said a senior official who was involved on the process.

September 14th, 2009 BANGALORE - Some people call them a menace, others want them re-located or even killed. But one young dog lover has decided to help stray puppies of this city find a home.

September 10th, 2009 RAIPUR - Five tribal students of a government-run school in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district have been suspended for ragging after over a dozen junior students complained that they were forced by the seniors to stroll naked in the hostel complex and beaten, an official said. The five suspended students were studying in Class 10.

September 7th, 2009 AGARTALA - Five students of a medical college here were expelled from their hostel while around 90 were suspended for one month for assaulting a senior, officials said Monday. The students of Agartala Government Medical College and Hospital were expelled after they physically tortured a third semester student Anil Jamatiya.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here Wednesday rusticated nine students for two years and expelled 10 others from the hostel for a year for ragging their juniors. We have completed the investigation.

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a "shocking and first of its kind incident" in the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), at least eight students of the varsity here were ragged by their seniors in a hostel room, authorities said Thursday. "We are shocked.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Authorities at Delhi University's Kirori Mal College Monday said they would take stringent action against two of its students accused of ragging a junior in the hostel and would take up the matter with the police as well. The college authorities received a complaint from a first year student, Ashutosh, that he was being ragged and sexually harassed by two third year students -- Akshay Chaudhary and Hani Mohammad -- in the college hostel Sunday evening.

July 8th, 2009 Nearly 500 dogs seized from Texas kennelBOWIE, Texas — Nearly 500 dogs, some with skin conditions and open sores, have been seized from a Texas kennel where the Humane Society says several dead animals also were found. Authorities in Montague County about 90 miles northwest of Dallas took the dogs from Maggic Pets/Heddins Kennel after complaints the animals weren't receiving proper veterinary care.

May 9th, 2009 300 dogs dumped on Malaysia islands eat each otherKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — More than 300 stray dogs that were dumped on isolated islands turned to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said Thursday. The plight of the dogs cast away by villagers on two small, uninhabited islands off Malaysia's western Selangor state ignited outrage after activists this week released photographs showing dogs eating the carcasses of ones that had died.

May 9th, 2009 300 dogs dumped on Malaysia island eat each otherKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian villagers caught more than 300 stray dogs and dumped them on a mangrove island, driving the canines to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said Thursday. The plight of the dogs cast away on a small, uninhabited island off Malaysia's western Selangor state ignited outrage after activists this week released photographs showing dogs eating the carcasses of ones that had died.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday rapped the Jawaharlal Nehru University for evicting three students for their alleged involvement in a hostel scuffle, when an enquiry was still pending. Justice S. Ravinder Bhat, who directed the university to wrap up the enquiry within a week, asked the authorities to re-admit them in the hostel with immediate effect.

March 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - In the second such incident in the last 10 days, a five-year-old girl died after a pack of stray dogs bit her in an Uttar Pradesh village Saturday, police said. The incident took place in Kajipur village within the city limits of Meerut, some 400 km from here.

March 2nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A science scholar in Panjab University here allegedly committed suicide Sunday by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room because 'he was disturbed', the police said. Kulbeer Singh, 27, a native of Kangra in Himachal Pradesh, had to appear for an interview of the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) Sunday afternoon, the police said.

February 4th, 2009 PATNA - Hundreds of students from Bihar studying in Tamil Nadu have returned home fearing violence in the wake of Sri Lanka's military offensive against the Tamil Tigers. Many of the students, looking frightened, reached Patna by train early Thursday.

January 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least 14 students of a Chhattisgarh college were arrested here Tuesday for assaulting their juniors, the police said. The students of Government Science College were suspended Saturday by the college authorities, a day after the police registered a case against them for ragging their juniors at a hostel.