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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

Delhi Police Turns on JNU: Open Lathi Charge on Student-Teacher Long March

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JNU students and teachers march to Parliament demanding reforms

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Privatisation of Universities in the garb of Autonomy : AAD

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Reading Mussolini’s Doctrine of Fascism in 21st Century India

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Jamia administration bows down to women hostellers; accepts all their demands

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Cambridge Analytica and its Bag of Dirty Tricks

The Channel 4 multi-part exposé of Cambridge Analytica has...

Residents & Citizens Protest as Demolitions around Shiv Viswanath Mandir continue: Varanasi

Consternation and protests grow in Varanasi as temples and...

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