Tag: JNU
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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 -
Afghan student stabbed by group of men near Goa University; one arrested
Panaji Police have arrested Satish Nilkanthe, a Maharashtra resident, for allegedly stabbing the student, search is on for three other accused who are on the run.
January 21, 2020 -
Campuses are for study, not politics
There are several versions of what happened. It appears that there was violence by several rival groups against others.
January 20, 2020 -
Teach… for the time being
For a transparent, rigorous and fair selection, a UPSC type of recruitment system to fill vacant permanent positions in the university and its colleges could be adopted with waivers regarding age only and nothing else. Counting of ad hoc service, another DUTA demand, is unfair as it puts candidates who did not apply because of the temporary nature of appointment at a disadvantage.
January 20, 2020 -
SC, ST delegation of JNU faculty meets Ram Vilas Paswan, accuses administration of discrimination
On the matter, Paswan after meeting the faculty members said that the allegations are serious and should be looked into.
January 18, 2020 -
Sad Resignation
Ever since the mayhem on the first Sunday of the New Year, VC M Jagadeesh Kumar has had a lot to answer for.
January 17, 2020 -
Amid students’ strike, JNU further extends semester registration date
The students have been asking the administration to roll back the fee hike and as a sign of protest, have been boycotting the exams and the registration process.
January 16, 2020 -
‘Not in video, being framed’: Alleged masked woman in JNU clip, Komal Sharma, writes to NCW
Unprecedented violence was unleashed on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus by a mob of masked men and women on Sunday night, who went on a rampage attacking students and teachers with wooden and metal rods, injuring at least 34 people.
January 15, 2020 -
Supreme Court lawyers hit streets against CAA-NRC
“Everything shouldn’t be always law centric. The government should also gauge the public mood and I think, as per the public mood, the government should immediately scrap this law,” said Nandita Rao, a Supreme Court lawyer.
January 14, 2020 -
From 1905 Eden College Calcutta to 2019 Jamia, students’ voice remains ‘iron backbone’ of democracy
The first students' strike took place in 1920 in King Edward Medical College, Lahore (now in Pakistan), against the academic discrimination between Indian and English pupils.
January 14, 2020