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Campuses in Revolt: How the UGC Equity Stay and Criminalised Dissent Have Ignited Student Protests Across India

From Allahabad University to JNU, BHU and Delhi University, students are pushing back against the silencing of caste critique and the suspension of long-awaited equity safeguards

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

Higher Education: How Centre is Undermining State Autonomy & Politicising UGC

The relentless centralisation of power, from the politically orchestrated VC appointments to sidelining state governments, threatens to suffocate intellectual diversity.

Why’s Australian crackdown rattling Indian students? Whopping 25% fake visa applications

This is what happened several months ago. A teenager...

Torn Pages, Broken Bones – The Violent Suppression of Teachers’ Voices

W.Bengal school teachers who were not involved in bribery fight to retain jobs.

Two Questions ‘anti-national’, says ABVP UP professor barred for life from setting exam papers

Vigilante justice UP style had a professor, Seema Panwar debarred from examination work for life after the ABVP “objected” to the two questions on RSS, its parent organisation, in a political science paper, at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University reports Omar Rashid for The Wire

Dissent Under Siege: Police action, suspensions, and the shrinking democratic space at TISS

Dalit scholar’s suspension for participating in protest, police detentions, and a court-backed curb on campus activism signal deepening threats to academic freedom and democratic expression in Indian universities

KIIT Suicide Case: Nepalese student’s harassment complaint ignored for 11 months before tragic suicide

In a startling revelation, Odisha’s Higher Education Minister Suryavanshi Suraj disclosed that Prakriti Lamsal, a 20-year-old Nepalese student who took her life at KIIT University in February 2025, had filed a sexual harassment complaint on March 12, 2024, NHRC also ordered an on-spot inquiry into the death

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Campuses in Revolt: How the UGC Equity Stay and Criminalised Dissent Have Ignited Student Protests Across India

From Allahabad University to JNU, BHU and Delhi University, students are pushing back against the silencing of caste critique and the suspension of long-awaited equity safeguards

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