The Telangana Director General of Police has said that they have decided to conduct further probe into the January 2016 death of University of Hyderabad PhD scholar Rohith Vemula, days after the ...

Vemula’s suicide touched off protests for a statutory regulation against campus-based harassment . Six years on, the demand remains unfulfilled. But a brighter legacy was the creation of a new ...

Who Was Rohith Vemula? Rohith Vemula was a PhD student at the University of Hyderabad. He was reportedly born on January 30, 1989. He belonged to the Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.

Rohith Vemula(26), a PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad was found dead in his hostel room on 17 January 2016. Had he lived for another fortnight, he would have celebrated his 27th birthday ...

Eight years after Rohith Vemula committed suicide in January 2016, the Telangana Police filed a closure report in the case giving a clean chit to then Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreya, member of ...

In April 2021, a professor from the Indian Institute of Technology verbally abused students belonging to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities. The incident brought to the fore conversations ...

Rohith Vemula, a 26-year-old doctoral research scholar at the Central University of Hyderabad, took his life last month by hanging himself with a political banner in a friend’s hostel room.

A K Roopanwal Commission in its report to the UGC officials said that the 26-year-old Rohith Vemula did not belong to the Scheduled Caste (SC) community, and therefore, was not a Dalit.

Rohith Vemula died by suicide in 2016 because of caste-based hostilities at a university in Hyderabad, where he was enrolled for a PhD programme. Eight years later, the Telangana police claim that ...

Rohith Vemula Not Dalit: Cops In Closure Report, Clean Chit To All Accused The closure report was filed on March 21 but has come to light just 10 days before all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana ...