New Delhi, July 21 -- Harvard University will urge a federal judge on Monday (July 21) to restore nearly $2.5 billion in canceled federal research grants and halt further efforts by the Trump administration to cut off funding. The hearing before US District Judge Allison Burroughs marks a pivotal moment in a mounting legal clash between the world-renowned university and the White House.

Harvard, the country's oldest university, says hundreds of critical research projects - from cancer treatments to infectious disease control - are now at risk.

"This case involves the Government's efforts to use the withholding of federal funding as leverage to gain control of academic decisionmaking at Harvard," the university stated in its lawsuit. "Al...