The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has issued a circular asking Ph.D. and MPhil students to enter titles of their research work in Hindi, as well. The administration is justifying this move by saying that it is aimed at tracking the review of theses and dissertations online. However, Assistant Registrar of[Read More…]
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Najeeb Ahmed missing case: CBI team reaches JNU to probe
A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) reached the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus to carry out probe into the missing student Najeeb Ahmed’s case. The premier investigative agency had filed an FIR in the case on June 2. Notably, Najeeb is missing since October 16, 2016. He was[Read More…]
Government to corporatise autonomous universities; IIMC to merge with JNU or Jamia
The state-owned institutes such as the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute and the Delhi Public Library, are on the verge of being corporatised. While the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will be merging with either the Jawaharlal Nehru University or[Read More…]
The draw of Kanhaiya Kumar, from slogans for the marginalised to advertising for Congress
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on June 12 re-launched the Congress-run newspaper, National Herald in Bengaluru after being temporarily suspended in 2008. National Herald also ran into controversy after it was alleged that the Congress party gave interest-free loans to Associated Journals Limited (AJL), the company which published the newspaper.[Read More…]
Documentaries on national controversies censored, director to move court
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s decision to deny censor exemption certification to three documentaries has come under fire. The central government denied permission to screen three documentaries at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, which is based on recent national controversies including Rohit Vemula suicide, unrest in[Read More…]
JNU to start incubation centers aimed to commercialise projects by faculty
The Jawaharlal Nehru University is soon to start its own incubation centre within three months. This initiative is aimed at converting the research projects of its faculty members into commercial ventures and startups. Out of the 30 proposals the university received from its faculty members, eight projects have been selected[Read More…]
Najeeb Ahmed missing case: 9 JNU students to appear before court
Nine students of JNU to appear before a Delhi court on Thursday. They may record their consent or refusal to go through lie detector tests in link with the Najeeb Ahmed missing case. Earlier Patiala House Court Chief Metropolitan Magistrate had asked the students to appear before the court. The[Read More…]
Abhinav Prakash: The right-wing Ambedkarite
Coming from a middle-class Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh, Abhinav Prakash saw the interplay of caste and class from a vantage point early in life. During his days in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, he got dismayed by the appropriation of the Dalit discourse by non-Dalits. With the belief that he[Read More…]
JNU students face fellowship crunch since January
Soon after the sharp cut in MPhil and PhD seats in Jawaharlal Nehru University which are to directly hit the students coming from a modest background as well as the current students of the university; JNU students allege that they’ve not received their fellowships since January 2017. Considering that JNU is a[Read More…]
IISc ranks first in the list of top Universities in the country
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister on Monday released the ‘India Ranking Report 2017’. The Ministry has given the list of the top universities, best management, engineering and pharmacy colleges. Indian Institute of Science has retained its number one rank in the list of top universities in India. “Among Indian institutes,[Read More…]
Cheating case lodged for fake UGC notice to JNU
Najeeb Ahmed case: Court rejects students’ plea against polygraph test
A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed the plea of nine JNU students in which they had claimed that they cannot be asked by Delhi Police to give their consent for lie detector test in a case related to the missing student Najeeb Ahmed. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass summoned all[Read More…]
JNUSU rejects proposal to install CCTV cameras at hostel gate
The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration failed to implement the order of installing CCTV cameras at every hostel gates of JNU. This has been rejected by the JNUSU (Student’s Union) terming the decision as ‘authoritarian’. The students were only aware of such a move from the authority’s side only when they[Read More…]
Missing JNU student: Court to hear students plea on Monday
In recent development in the missing JNU student case, the Patiala House Court on Monday to hear the students’ plea against the police move to conduct lie detector test on them. Earlier the Delhi Police has asked the students to under-go a lie detector test, as many as 90 students[Read More…]
JNU seat-cuts: Students block gate, protest outside UGC office
Students of JNU angered by the seat-cut according to the new UGC gazette staged protests on Friday both inside and outside the Campus. While a bunch of students who blocked the main gate of the university, some marched till the UGC office at ITO hoping to meet with the officials[Read More…]
UGC cuts funding for social discrimination research
JNU student found dead, autopsy to be videographed
After the death of MPhil student J Muthukrishan on Tuesday, his father demanded a doctor of their choice to conduct the postmortem examination. AIIMS wrote to the police that the entire examination will be videographed. AIIMS is likely to conduct the post-mortem examination on March 15. As per reports, Dr[Read More…]
JNU: 27-year-old MPhil student commits suicide
In a shocking incident, a research scholar of Delhi’s prominent Jawaharlal Nehru University allegedly committed suicide in Munirka in Delhi on Monday evening. The 27-year-old Muthukrishnan Jeevanantham was a former student of the University of Hyderabad. Jeevanantham was found hanging in his room and the motives behind his death were[Read More…]
UGC notice binding on all universities: JNU administration tells Delhi HC
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration Thursday submitted a notice to the Delhi High Court that the UGC notification which sets a limit of eight students per professor for M.Phil and Ph.D. courses was binding on all varsities in the country. The lawyer representing JNU said that it is not the discretion[Read More…]
A year later, Delhi Police lacks absolute evidence to charge Kanhaiya Kumar
Almost a year since Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest on charges of sedition, the Delhi Police has reportedly not found any absolute evidence to pursue its charges against the former student of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Kanahaiya Kumar was jailed on February 9, 2016. He was charged with sedition, along with two other[Read More…]
Ramjas is not an isolated incident but a part of the Left’s organized pattern
The unfortunate incident of a students’ clash at the Ramjas college of Delhi University has been projected as an issue of free speech & democratic rights. But what is being missed in the coverage by the various media outlets is that this is not an isolated incident but part of[Read More…]
Administration lodges FIR against JNU students for administration block siege
Police has registered an FIR against students after repeated complaints from the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration, discontent with students blockading the administrative building of the campus. As students refuse to negotiate with the JNU vice-chancellor M Jagdish Kumar, he ensured that law would take its course against their activities. The[Read More…]
Rising toll of caste-based discrimination in central universities, BHU tops the list
Out of all the central universities that recorded caste-based discrimination against Dalits in 2015-16, Benaras Hindu University tops the list. Unfortunately, BHU witnessed 19 cases of caste-based discrimination. The second being, Gujarat University with 18 complaints, according to the University Grants Commission (UGC). This, however, is not BHU’s first liability,[Read More…]
True nationalism is found where students, citizens, are encouraged to think and speak freely: Manmohan Singh
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday alleged that independent thinking and free expression in Indian universities were under threat in the present situation. He said the recent attempts to interfere with free expression of the student community in Hyderabad Central University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were of particular[Read More…]
