11:24 am: Universities are public institutions powered with the energy and dynamism of our youth. You must use this energy to engage with the communities near to your campuses as also with the government of the state that hosts you, tweets President Kovind
11:22 am: Our central universities are the pride of our higher education system. They have contributed immensely to nation building. The goal of our central universities should be to constantly grow and upgrade themselves as per the best of global standards, tweets President Kovind
11:21 am: That responsibility is to marry research and innovation to the needs of our country and people. Research and innovation can play an important role in lifting our people out of poverty, ensuring their health and well-being or attaining food and energy security, tweets President Kovind
11:20 am: There is no doubt that government has a responsibility to promote and support research and innovation in our centres of education. However, there is a specific responsibility that lies with the researchers too, tweets President Kovind
11:19 am: We have to emphasise the merits of research and teaching profession in our society at large. This profession offers unique benefits that no other career offers – freedom to ideate and to test and spread those ideas through research and teaching, tweets President Kovind
11:18 am: Pursuing research demands constant determination from the researcher as well as full institutional support. Research is not a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job and thus our approach towards supporting and promoting a research culture cannot be a pedantic one, tweets President Kovind
11:17 am: Congratulate the winners of the Visitor’s Awards 2018. These awards recognise the outstanding contribution, single-minded devotion and painstaking work put in by the award winners in the pursuit of knowledge. All of you are true achievers, tweets President Kovind
11:16 am: Education is a subject I am personally passionate about. It is education that holds the key for the development of our nation and our people. All of you play an important role in the making of a modern India, tweets President Kovind
11:15 am: Lohagadh (Aligarh): Rajnish Kumar, Dalit man at whose house UP Minister Suresh Rana had dinner yesterday says, 'I didn't even know they are coming for dinner,they came suddenly.All food, water and cutlery they had arranged from outside' (ANI)
11:09 am: President Kovind presents 4th Visitor’s Awards, 2018 and meets Vice-Chancellors of Central Universities at Rashtrapati Bhavan; says research and innovation is the bedrock of advancing knowledge, and knowledge alone holds the key to finding solutions to our problems
11:04 am: SC says the matter be placed before the CJI, requests CJI to list the matter for consideration tomorrow (PTI)
11:02 am: We might stop passing any order if you are going to kill people, says SC on Kasauli incident (PTI)
10:56 am: SC terms Kasauli incident as extremely serious, says the govt official had gone there to implement apex court's orders (PTI)
10:55 am: SC takes suo motu cognisance of the incident in Kasauli where a govt official was shot dead allegedly by hotel owner during sealing drive (PTI)
10:53 am: SC refuses to interfere with rituals followed in Mahakal Temple at Ujjain (PTI)
10:51 am: Supreme Court today refused to give an urgent hearing to a mentioning by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy, who sought a direction to perform puja at the site in Ayodhya (ANI)
10:36 am: Senior JDU leader and former Bihar Assembly speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary resigns from the party (ANI)
10:23 am: Delhi court extends till July 10, the interim protection from arrest to Karti Chidambaram in Aircel-Maxis case (PTI)
10:06 am: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to meet Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao in Hyderabad today
09:49 am: We have to convince farmers to bring a govt that is sensitive to their issues: PM Narendra Modi to Kisan Morcha Karyakartas (PTI)
