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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

Towards Quality Universal and Accessible Education for All!  Protests against NEP 2020

Roll Back NEP 2020! This was the resounding slogan at the Jantar Mantar protest on March 14, against the Modi 2.0 much touted New Education Policy (NEP)

Haleema Beevi: Pioneer of Social Reform and Broad-Based Muslim Education in Kerala

At a time when our society is again falling in the grip of conservatism, irrationalism and over-religiosity, we must remind ourselves of the work of Late Haleema Beevi, the first female journalist from Kerala.

Dalit MBBS female intern allegedly died by suicide due to caste discrimination

Another fateful; incident of death by suicide of a Dalit student in a professional institute has come to the fore but no relief or redressal mechanism seems forthcoming

UP: Over 51,000 Teaching Posts in Primary, 33,000 in Secondary Schools Lying Vacant, Union Says Violation of RTC Act

The new academic session of Uttar Pradesh Basic Education Board schools is about to begin next month but about 51,000 posts of assistant teachers are lying vacant in the government schools teaching classes I to VIII (primary and upper-primary) in the state.

How long will Dalits and Adivasis students succumb to violent caste discrimination before effective measures are created?

In this legal resource, CJP examines the failing guidelines put in place at educational institutions and the continuing culture of caste-based discrimination

Systematic Entrenched Caste Discrimination in IITs is depriving young students right to dignity and life: PUCL

Representation ImagePUCL Maharashtra has issued a statement expressing distress...

Manusmriti fellowship? Join Benaras Hindu University (BHU)!

The casteist and sectarian text, Manusmriti is controversial for its endorsement of caste system and women's subjugation; Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar had burnt the text in protest at the Mahad convention on December 25, 1927.

IIT-Bombay grilled on counsellor posting: NCST 

The institute has been defending charges that it waa its alleged failure to create safe spaces for marginalised students that was the cause that led to the alleged suicide of a 18-year-old Dalit student from Gujarat, Darshan Solanki reports The Hindu

IIT Bombay Dalit student death: Dr Bhalchandra Mungekar, ex Rajya Sabha member, demands SIT probe into his death 

On February 12, Darshan Solanki B-Tech first-year student, had died by suicide, serious claims of caste discrimination were made, countrywide protests followed

University takes on a communal colour as Muslim students are targeted, abused, called terrorist by ABVP

During a General Body meeting, at Hyderabad University, ABVP outfit physically and verbally attack Muslim students

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