Tag: JNU
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JNU staff to donate a day’s salary in fight against coronavirus
'Those who do not wish to contribute can indicate by email,' JNU VC said.
March 28, 2020 -
‘Muhammad Ali Jinnah Marg’ poster appears on ‘VD Savarkar Marg’ signage board in JNU campus
However, later the poster was removed, and through spray paint, the name of VD Savarkar was replaced with BR Ambedkar.
March 17, 2020 -
Why is AAP auditioning to be Hindutva’s B team: JNUSU on Kanhaiya Kumar prosecution
The prosecution sanction was granted nearly a year after a city court asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government to take a decision within a reasonable time-frame.
March 1, 2020 -
The Saturday Interview | I want to make JNU world-class
Kumar, a native of Nalgonda district in Telangana, did his Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Madras, followed by post-doctoral research at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
February 29, 2020 -
Delhi govt nod to police to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar in 2016 sedition case
On February 9, 2016, 'anti-national' slogans were allegedly raised at JNU campus during a programme called to protest against the death sentence handed out to Afzal Guru, a convict in the 2002 Parliament attack.
February 29, 2020 -
Students protest outside Kejriwal’s residence as violence in northeast Delhi continues
On Tuesday evening, Kejriwal called an urgent meeting at his residence, of MLAs and officials of the violence-hit areas of northeast Delhi.
February 26, 2020 -
JNU sedition case: Delhi police writes to AAP govt seeking prosecution sanction
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he will ask the concerned department for early decision in connection with the issue.
February 20, 2020 -
JNU students union chief Aishe Ghosh joins anti-CAA rally at JU
Describing the BJP-RSS combine as the biggest threat to the nation, Miss Ghosh urged the students to foil the attempt by the fascist forces to occupy space in the universities.
February 15, 2020 -
Former JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar’s convoy attacked in Bihar’s Arrah district
The convoy was attacked on Friday and many vehicles were damaged in the stone pelting incident.
February 15, 2020 -
Aishe Ghosh not allowed to participate in debate inside CU campus; hits out at saffron brigade
Later she participated in an anti-CAA and anti-NRC rally from College Square to Shyambazar which was attended by hundreds of students, cultural activists and senior CPI (M) leaders.
February 14, 2020 -
Delay in eminence tag for Jadavpur may be ABVP’s chief poll plank
The student wing of the saffron outfit is leaving no stone unturned to gain a toehold in the university which has been a launching pad of several anti- CAA agitations one of which spilled over in the heckling of Union minister Babul Supriyo last year.
February 12, 2020 -
51 people booked under sedition in Mumbai for allegedly supporting Sharjeel Imam
The development comes a day after a lower court in Delhi extended sedition-accused Sharjeel Imam's police remand by three days.
February 4, 2020 -
JNU student Sharjeel Imam’s police custody extends by three days
Imam's five days police custody ended today and he was produced at Delhi Patiala House Court's Chief Judicial Magistrate Purushottam Pathak's residence amid high security.
February 3, 2020 -
JNU student Sharjeel Imam, booked for sedition over inflammatory speech, arrested in Bihar
In a video that went viral on January 25, Sharjeel Imam is seen talking about splitting the northeast from India to block the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
January 28, 2020 -
Brother of sedition accused JNU student Sharjeel Imam detained in Bihar
Sharjeel was slapped with a sedition case by the Delhi Police after his alleged speeches went viral on the social media wherein he was heard speaking about Assam’s possible secession from the country in the wake of CAA.
January 28, 2020 -
JNU attack: Server room not vandalised by protesting students, RTI reply
The JNU administration reiterates that a group of masked students came to CIS Data Centre premises on January 3 and forcibly evicted the technical staff, switched off the power supply, locked the premises.
January 23, 2020 -
A troublesome future
If the BJP did not anticipate the students taking to the streets in such large numbers, the party also does not seem to have expected the citizenship law and the NRC to raise tempers to such a pitch. It is possible that the party had been lulled into believing that it will be able to get away with anything by the ease with which it succeeded in dispensing with the constitutional provisions granting special status to Kashmir. Given the magnitude of its drastic step in Kashmir, including the conversion of the state into a Union Territory, the jailing of all the mainstream leaders and the shutting down of the Internet for months on end, the citizenship law and the NRC may have seemed to the government to be no more than routine measures.
January 21, 2020