The first to join the protest against the violence in Jamia were students from the Aligarh University University (AMU) where there were clashes with the police late night on Sunday. After the protest, the administration announced the closure of the university till January 5 and students have been asked to evacuate the hostels.
Hundreds of AMU students protesting against the amended Citizenship Act clashed with police on Sunday at a campus gate, leaving 60 injured.After the protest, the administration announced the closure of the university till January 5.
As the protests against the Citizenship Act intensified, the AMU students gathered at the Babey Sir Syed Gate and raised slogans against the police action on the demonstrators in Delhi. The students broke the police cordon and fought pitched battles with the police.
Soon after the protest near the Jamia Millia University in Delhi, the students started gathering at the Babey Sir Syed Gate and shouted slogans against the law and police action on demonstrators in the national capital.
Heavy police patrolling is underway at the university circle and other entry points of the AMU campus as a precautionary measure, police said.
Vice president of the students' union Hamza Sufyan said: "The professor was appointed according to the UGC guidelines and discriminating him on the basis of religion reflects the mentality of the environment these students are exposed to."
AMU authorities have also cautioned people against rumour mongering or fake news circulation on social media.
Terming it as 'gross misconduct', the legislator from Barauli constituency in Aligarh district has demanded action against the university staff. Dalbir Singh was not in the car when the flag was removed.
ABVP office bearer Situ Chaudhary said, "Holding a protest against the abrogation of Article 370 is an anti-national act and the HRD Ministry should order a probe in the entire incident."
In a statement posted on social media, the Kashmiri students said the offer to host the Eid lunch was a hollow gesture to mislead international public opinion and divert attention from the humanitarian crisis triggered by the "unconstitutional and authoritarian" moves of the central government.
Hizbul Mujahideen commander Manan Bashir Wani was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in north Kashmir's Handwara on Thursday.
Taking to Twitter, she wrote that Jinnah was not respected among the academic circles of Bangladesh as he had declared Urdu as the state language of East Pakistan, a region where the majority of people are Bengalis.
“The portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah was installed before independence in the AMU and so there is nothing wrong in it, but it can be removed if the public sentiments are against it,” Athawale said.
"There will be no internet services from 2 pm today to 12 midnight tomorrow," district magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh said.
At least six people were injured when the police used teargas shells to disperse AMU students, demanding the arrest of protesters who had earlier barged into the campus shouting slogans.
Yasmeen Khalid also threatened to commit suicide in front of the vice-chancellor's house along with her kids if "justice is not done" to her.
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the government has no intention to change the names of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
The universities can be simply called Aligarh University and Banaras University or be renamed after their founders, a UGC panel member suggested.
The Supreme Court today set aside the Allahabad High Court's May 29 order which had quashed 50 per cent institutional preference in admission to PG medical seats
Following Yogi Adityanath-led government’s crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh, meat has gone off the menu at Aligarh Muslim University.
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