India, April 15 -- White House has frozen $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard after the university defied its demands over campus protests. Apart from the $2.2 billion in grants, the Donald Trump administration has also reportedly frozen $60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the school said it would not comply with demands to curb campus activism.

In a letter sent Friday, the US President Donald Trump-led administration called on Harvard to implement sweeping changes, including adopting "merit-based" admissions and hiring practices, conducting an audit of students, faculty, and leadership on their views of diversity, and banning face masks - a move seemingly aimed at pro-Palestinian protesters.

The Donald Trump administrati...