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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

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Maadathy: Tribunal restores cuts made by CBFC Regional Officer

The Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), New Delhi last...

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...

Enforcing Discrimination one Colour at a time: TN

Systems will continue says the Minister in response to...

How A Kerala District Is Helping Migrant Children Stay In School

Ernakulam (Kerala): Supriya Debnath, 24, a migrant from Odisha’s...

An Essay for Our Times: Diversity and Indian Nationalism

Diversity & nationalism are complementary and not antagonistic to...

Stay against ‘Inquiry’ against 48 Teachers at JNU for attending Protests: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court today stayed the inquiry initiated...

6,000 miles away, son sees father in Kashmir on TV

Ever since the unilateral decision of the Government of...

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