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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

Notice to UGC, Govt on Caste prejudice: SC

Mothers of Payal Tadvi and Rohith Vemula petition the...

Should children study religion in school?

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Official data paucity: Assessing public education system impossible without independent NGO surveys

Excerpts from section on primary and secondary education, forming...

Delhi high court permits JNU election committee to declare 2019 poll results

JNUSU Result 2019: During the hearing, the court said that...

Higher education: Online entrance, digital admission add new layers of hurdle for marginalized students

Watching movie “Super 30” not only evoked emotions while...

India’s Education Budget Cannot Fund Proposed New Education Policy

Bengaluru: The government’s Draft New Education Policy released May...

‘NEP Is Meant for Commercialisation of Education’

"The National Education Policy 2019 (NEP) proposed by the...

ABVP indulges in dirty politics ahead of JNU elections, attacks SFI Unit President

Hostel fees, abrogation of Art 370, attacks on minorities...

What the UGCRC doesn’t want students to read: Meena Kandasamy’s ‘Touch’

As part of UGC’s Learning Outcome-Based Curriculum Framework (LOCF)...

Deshbhakti curriculum to be introduced from next year in Delhi schools

Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi announced that from...

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Indian Muslims need to be protected as much from the communalism of their co-religionists as majoritarian communalism: In remembrance of CM Naim

An intrepid critique of entrenched and entitled Muslim elites, CM Naim, a historian and essayist, recently passed away at 85. Here his work is remembered for its out of the box thinking and commitment to both the culture and language around Urdu; an essay that recalls his works

Delhi Court sentences riots accused for promoting hatred against Muslims, sentences him to 3 years in custody

Lokesh Kumar Solanki convicted for inciting violence during 2020 Delhi riots; court calls his conduct “fuel to already simmering tensions” but releases him citing maximum sentence already served

Harassment by Delhi Police, blatant extortion & human rights’ violation in process of identification of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”: Brinda Karat to HM Amit Shah

Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-CPIM), has in a letter to the union home minister, Amit Shah highlighted the blatant violation of human rights, harassment and extortion, in the ongoing process of "identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" by the Delhi police and other agencies.

Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO

Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Bihar:  SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision 

Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship