Kushalnagar: A 20-year-old college student was on Tuesday stabbed by a fellow student allegedly over the differences that cropped up over wearing saffron shawls for protesting against students wearing Hijab to college. The incident was reported from Kushalnagar’s Sundarnagar College here.

According to the reports, 20-year-old Sandeep a final year student of Arts stream was stabbed by a first-year student after he refused to wear a saffron shawl protesting the students wearing Hijab to college.

Several students on Tuesday turned up to the college wearing saffron shawls amidst the Hijab row. A first-year student identified as Vikram allegedly asked Sandeep to wear a saffron shawl, things went out of control when Sandeep refused and got into a physical fight with Vikram after a brief altercation.

The fight later turned violent between the two groups supporting Vikram and Sandeep. Vikram allegedly stabbed Sandeep after dragging him outside the college campus, injuring him on the shoulder and back before fleeing the spot. Sandeep was rushed to a local hospital for treatment after the incident.

According to the eye-witnesses, Vikram was later detained by cops near Gopal Circle in the city.

Police sources have said both the group of students have been summoned to the police station and further investigations are underway.

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Manchester, Jul 25 (PTI): The prolific Joe Root on Friday surpassed Australian legend Ricky Ponting's tally to become the second highest run-getter in the history of Test cricket and next in sight of the England batter is Indian icon Sachin Tendulkar who continues to head the list.

On the third day of the fourth Test against India here, Root first leapfrogged legendary Indian Rahul Dravid and South African great Jacques Kallis' aggregate of runs in a space of eight balls and then went past Ponting by steering the ball behind point for a single as the Old Trafford crowd gave him a standing ovation.

Ponting had scored 13378 runs in 168 matches at an average of 51.85, while Tendulkar continues to top the list with 15921 runs.

It was apt that Ponting was in the commentary box when Root went past him. The 34-year-old Root began his Test career with a 73-run knock on debut during England's tour of India back in 2012 at Nagpur.

"Congrats, Joe Root. Magnificent," a delighted Ponting, doing commentary alongside Ravi Shastri, hailed the Yorkshire man.

Root is playing in his 157th Test.

It was some sight as England skipper Ben Stokes, who was also in the middle, raised his bat even before Root could take off his helmet and acknowledged the cheers and applause from the crowd and the players

Earlier, Root entered the history books by breaking the record of most Test centuries against India with his 12th hundred against the Asian giants, against whom he has played in 34 Tests so far.

Root had equalled Australian Steve Smith's record (11 centuries) in the third India-England Test at Lord's last week by scoring a hundred (104 runs from 199 balls) in the first innings.

Overall, the ton at Old Trafford was his 38th in red ball format as he joined former Sri Lanka star Kumar Sangakkara at fourth place in the list of centurions in the game's longest format.

Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45) and Ponting (41) are ahead of him in the hundred's list.