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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
Funds Withheld, Futures on Hold: Dalit, OBC, Minority students face scholarship crisis amidst delays and cuts
A sudden funding freeze leaves dozens of marginalised students in limbo, exposing deepening cracks in the government’s commitment to educational justice
Whither SCOPE? Twelve years on, Gujarat’s official English remains frozen in time
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Bombay High Court stays SC/ST/OBC reservations in minority-run junior colleges for FYJC admissions
Bench grants interim stay as it find substance in petitioner’s arguments against State’s move to impose SC/ST/OBC quotas on open seats in minority colleges
Bowing to outrage, Delhi University V-C says that Manusmriti removed from curriculum, won’t teach in future
That the announcement of inclusion of the Manusmriti was withdrawn days after it was first proclaimed, illustrates the impact of the protests against its inclusion: Earlier, the objective of the course stated that “ancient Indian society, in terms of whole and its parts, has been depicted in the texts compiled in Sanskrit known as Dharmashastra.”
Bengal: Is Govt-Aided School Education Heading For Privatisation?
Poor jobless families in Jangal Mahal area are being forced to pull out children from schools due to acute shortage of teachers and high cost of private education.
UP: Ramayana, Vedic Workshops in Govt Schools Challenged
Why the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government’s move of using public funds for imparting religious instruction violates Article 28 of the Constitution.
Mughals deleted from curriculum: history as political tool
The new education policy 2020 is being implemented gradually....
Revisiting Gijubhai: Pioneer of child-centric education and the caste debate
It was Krishna Kumar, the well-known educationist, who I...
Left maintains JNUSU foothold, absence of alliance gives ABVP a chance
Left has maintained a foothold in the JNU Students Union (JNUSU) elections; ABVP sneaks in as multiple candidatures muddy the fight
2025 NCERT Textbooks: Mughals, Delhi Sultanate out; ‘sacred geography’, Maha Kumbh in
‘NCERT has dropped all portions on Mughals from Class 7 Books. Students will now get to read about how Rajputs fought against nobody and lost!’ So, sarcastically wrote an ‘X’ user, Joy even as one more cut and slash action of the Modi 3.0 government with Indian social science/ history texts came to light; for the NDA II government this is only the latest in a long series of ad hoc deletions
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