Not the kind of subsidies political parties are currently squabbling over, but something far more mundane — subsidy extended to food being served in the institute’s mess. The IISc management ...

On Thursday, hundreds of students gathered near the main building of the IISc protesting against a proposal to “slowly remove the mess subsidy at the rate of 10-15 per cent every month.” ...

It will reach 25 to 80 per cent, if the mess subsidy is scrapped.” By revoking IISc’s financial assistance to the mess, which includes payment of daily wages to mess workers, the ...