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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

Gyanvapi case: Varanasi Muslims display maturity, maintain peace

SC warns against any more survey report leaks, orders arrangements be made for Wazu

Open letter to Sharda University Vice Chancellor

Discarding a question on linkages of Hindutva with Nazism/Fascism is blatant Academic Dishonesty!

Education in India being ‘edited’ to suit a right-wing syllabus… one chapter at a time

Communalising classrooms is no longer a mere threat; the process began a while ago, and once printed in textbooks, threatens to stay

Over 100 Indian journalists stand with Shireen Akleh and Palestinians

Journalists write to the Israeli Prime Minister condemning the response to the reporter’s assassination

JNU must withdraw order making the university out of bounds for Sucheta De: AICCTU

The trade union called the order an administrative attempt to continue unfair trade practices

Did Aurangzeb also issue a ‘farman’ against razing temples?

Amidst the Gyanvapi controversy, perhaps it is time to also look into historical facts that a majoritarian regime wants to erase

EXCLUSIVE: Shahjahan returned properties of King Jai Singh for donating haveli for Taj Mahal

Documents show that havelis were given back to Raja Jai Singh in exchange for a specific mansion belonging to his grandfather Raja Man Singh that was voluntarily donated for construction of the Taj Mahal

Gujarat: Hindu man killed by own community for using loudspeaker at temple

The daily wage earner was beaten to death in a Mehsana temple

Is Taj Mahal not a part of Indian Culture?

One can say the totality of plural expressions of people is Indian culture; it is inclusive and has syncretism in all the aspects of social life

AICCTU leader Sucheta De removed from JNU campus!

De accused the university administration of trying to separate workers union from trade unions

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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

Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

A Republic Must Tolerate Art — But Not Denigration: Supreme Court reasserts fraternity as a constitutional boundary

While closing the challenge to a withdrawn film title, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that vilifying any community is constitutionally impermissible — even as it robustly defended artistic freedom under Article 19(1)(a), striking a careful balance between dignity and dissent in a 75-year-old Republic

Hegemony: Kerala’s Bharatapuzha as a political stage

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JNU: Former JNUSU President complains against Vice Chancellor’s casteist & racist remarks

Two complaints, one by former JNUSU president, Dhananjay and the second BY Suraj Kumar Baudh, an activist, take on Santishree D. Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of JNU for her recent casteist and racist comments

From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation