JNU teachers say admin open to talk to elected hostel representatives to end students protest
India | November 17, 2019 17:53 ISTUmesh Kadam, the dean of students, said he has not yet notified the students' union.
Umesh Kadam, the dean of students, said he has not yet notified the students' union.
The JNUSU said it will be a march to save public education and appeal to MPs to take up the cause.
Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS, took out torchlight processions in the northern and southern parts of the city on Saturday protesting against the defacement of Swami Vivekananda's statue at JNU.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University has decided to file an FIR against its students who allegedly vandalised and defaced the administration block on Wednesday, Vice-Chancellor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar said on Thursday.
A statue of Swami Vivekananda inside Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) was vandalized by miscreants.More details are awaited.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday ordered partial rollback of hostel fees hike. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Executive Council -- the highest decision-making body of JNU .
The university is located in south Delhi. Up ahead is Vasant Vihar, a coveted address for India's rich and famous. A short distance away are India's glitziest malls.
"JNU admin calls CRPF in campus. Shame. JNU VC wants to jail 8,500 students," said a message shared by JNUSU vice president Saket Moon along with pictures of CRPF personnel
"This JNU VC has miserably failed to provide us with proper infrastructure to study. And the spaces which are still used by student community for reading are also being made inaccessible," the AISA alleged.
Alumni and students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday accused varsity's administration of 'killing JNU's culture', and 'taking away freedom and liberty from students' after the varsity uploaded a draft of its new hostel manual on its website, seeking suggestions from both students and teachers. The draft that mentions fixing a curfew time of 11.30 p.m., "appropriate dressing rule" in dining halls and revision in the fee structure, drew flak
Jawahar Lal Nehru University students staged a vociferous protest on Thursday at an event attended by Union Minister Jitendra Singh against the scrapping of Article 370 provisions.
The newly-elected members of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) and the administration on Tuesday traded charges over the submission of election expenditure bills.
The police informed Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Khurana that it has done its part and is now awaiting the decision.
Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva also allowed the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration to notify the poll results in accordance with Lyngdoh committee recommendations.
It had attracted special media attention after the "tukde tukde" episode allegedly involving raising of anti-national slogans on the campus during a programme on February 9, 2016.
Jawaharlal Nehru University's students of History have said they were "pained" by the administration's move to ask historian Romila Thapar to submit her CV as "having her in the university was akin to having an eminence tag for the varsity".
The Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists tried to move past a barricade near Kejriwal's Flagstaff Road residence but were stopped by police and many of them taken away to a nearby police station from where they were released later.
Referring to some media reports that the AAP government may decline sanction to prosecute former JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case, he said it is "highly condemnable" and has caused widespread "anger" among people.
After being slammed for seeking Thapar's CV, the JNU administration said in a statement the letter it wrote to her was not sent to discontinue her association with the university but to check whether the professor emeriti is willing and available to offer her services.
Polling will be held in two phases -- 9.30 am to 1 pm and 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm. The counting will commence at 9 pm onwards and the results are likely to be declared on Sunday.
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