Tag: Jnu Students

New Delhi: Massive traffic snarls were reported in central Delhi on Monday as hundreds of protesting students of JNU were stopped from marching towards Parliament which also led to them scuffling with the police. The authorities also shut the entry and exit gates at three Delhi Metro stations near Parliament to prevent the students from […]

New Delhi: Around 100 JNU students, including students union president Aishe Ghosh, were detained and some were injured when police allegedly baton-charged protestors as they marched towards Parliament on the first day of Winter Session on Monday, demanding a total rollback of the hostel fee hike. The protesting students sat at the road outside Safdurjung […]

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University students boycotted the exams on Thursday over the hostel fee hike issue, even as the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (SSIS) saw students appearing for their papers. Sources said exams were also held in School of Engineering and the Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship. Professor […]

New Delhi: In a statement issued by the registrar of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the varsity administration on Wednesday warned the students that if they refuse to write their exams, they will not be eligible to register in the next semester. “Those who refuse to write the exams on their own will, in spite of […]

New Delhi: Bollywood star Deepika Padukone on Tuesday visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University to express solidarity with the students who were attacked by a violent mob but left without addressing the crowd. Her decision to not address the crowd prompted JNUSU student leader Aishe Ghosh to comment, “when you are in a position, you should […]

Lahore: Students in Pakistan on Wednesday expressed solidarity with their counterparts in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who were assaulted violently by masked goons on January 5. “We stand in solidarity with the students of India who are resisting fascism. Students on both sides have struggled in the face of repression, be it the abduction […]

New Delhi: JNU students protesting against the violence on the university campus tried to march towards the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday after a failed meeting with HRD ministry officials, but were stopped and later detained by police, with some of them receiving injuries as they were roughed up when the cops put them in buses […]

New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Monday said the continuation of protests by JNU students is not justified as the fee-hike issue has been settled. “The fee-related matter of JNU has been sorted out following several rounds of discussions with representatives of JNU students and teachers,” Nishank said. “The main demand by […]

New Delhi: Taking a swipe at the protesting Jawaharlal Nehru University students, yoga guru Ramdev on Friday said the government should start a “pension scheme for the elderly students of the varsity so that they can quietly pursue their studies on the campus”. “I demand that the government start a pension scheme for JNU’s elderly […]