In China, wait times for US visa interviews are so long that some students have given up. Universities in Hong Kong are fielding transfer inquiries from foreign students in the US.

From this weekend, West Bengal is all set to be rocked again over protest movements by various groups on the first anniversary of the rape and murder of a woman junior doctor of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata in August last year.

Books by Booker winner Arundhati Roy, constitutional expert AG Noorani are among the 25 titles banned by the Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor’s administration for allegedly propagating “false narrative” and “secessionism” in the Union Territory.