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Vasant Panchami refers to the religious Hindu festival of Saraswati Puja or Shree Panchami. It is a seasonal spring festival which is observed in many regions of the India. The festival also marks the start of preparation for Holika and Holi, which take place forty days later. Let’s find out more about the significance and importance of this festival in this episode of Culture Shauk with Sunita Iyer.

Jawaharlal Nehru University students stage protests over hike in fees. The university’s convocation ceremony had to be held at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) in Vasant Kunj due to large scale protests. The JNU protests and their demands have been Simplified by Supriya Krishnamurthy.

The DMK and Congress are fighting it over the Nanguneri by-election. The by-election is necessitated because the sitting MLA, H Vasanthakumar of the Congress has resigned after he was elected as the MP from Kanyakumari constituency.

After handing out a stunning defeat to BJP’s Pon Radhakrishnan in Kanyakumari, Congress’s H Vasanthakumar has now quit as Nanguneri MLA. The by-poll to Nanguneri will be held within six months.

 

The Kanyakumari constituency in Tamil Nadu is a key constituency which sees the battle between BJP’s Pon Radhakrishnan against Congress’s H Vasanthakumar

The Kanyakumari constituency in Tamil Nadu is a key constituency which sees the battle between BJP’s Pon Radhakrishnan against Congress’s H Vasanthakumar
 

The Tuticorin Lok Sabha constituency sees a raging battle between DMK's Kanimozhi and Tamil Nadu BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan. Here's the vision that Tamilisai has for the people of her own soil

BJP leader Pon Radhakrishnan led the party to secure one seat in Tamil Nadu in the Kanyakumari constituency in 2014. Five years later, Ponnar – as he is fondly called in the region, is confident of another win

The National Council of Educational Research and Training has introduced a poem by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in a Class 8 textbook
 

Kerala native VV Vasanthakumar was killed in the Pulwama terror attack when a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the bus that the CRPF jawans were travelling in
 

Vasanthakumar, a native of Wayanad, Kerala, was 82nd battalion member of the CRPF. He had 18 years of service and had only two more years remaining to retire. 
 

A 25-year-old woman from Delhi was allegedly raped in Kumbakonam on December 1. The victim was in town to join a bank as an employee