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‘Serious Grievances’: Bombay HC backs students’ concerns, MPSC protests continue in Pune
Bombay High Court directs Maharashtra government to explain recruitment backlog and restore trust; two of three protest sites remain occupied, with Rohit Pawar-led agitation refusing to move
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
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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
1000s or hundreds of thousands, the Karnataka govt’s ill-motivated ‘Hijab ban’ has pushed Muslim girls out of school
Whether the figure is in the 100s or the hundreds of thousands, young Muslim girls have been pushed out of the state’s schools; CPI-M John Brittas speaking in the Rajya Sabha recently claims it’s close to one lakh
IITs unable to create safe spaces for students
After two incidents of student deaths allegedly by suicide at two IITs have come to light, the question has once again arisen over what these institutes have done for the mental well being of its students
More than 30 lakh Indian students went abroad for higher studies in 6 years: UoI
A sharp increase by 68 per cent has been seen in students going abroad in 2022 as compared to previous years
UP: NCPCR Bid to ‘Trace’ Non-Muslim Students in Madrasas; ‘Discriminatory’, Says UPMEB
The madrasa body has written to the President and Prime Minister, terming the NCPCR recommendations as “violative of Right to Education and against the spirit of the Constitution”.
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India
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