The storm over the suicide of a Dalit student in Hyderabad University intensified on Thursday.
The first sitting JNUSU functionary to fight assembly polls, Ghosh, a latecomer into politics, blossomed as the president of the union at a time when student politics saw a resurgence after Left leader Kanhaiya Kumar came into media limelight following a sedition case.
The home minister assured the family all kind of assistance, the sources said.
A Delhi court on Tuesday acquitted Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and Member of Parliament Sadhu Yadav in an attempt to murder case.
Police cited statements of various witnesses in its chargesheet to state that Kumar was walking along with the protesters where a number of unidentified persons were raising slogans during an event in the university's campus on February 9, 2016, to commemorate the hanging of Parliament-attack mastermind Afzal Guru.
Police resorted to baton charges and fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesters.
The meeting was attended by the JNU registrar, proctor and other admin officials who briefed the MHRD officials about the incident. Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has vowed 'strong action' against the perpetrators of the violence at JNU.
Amid growing demands for his resignation, Kumar told the MHRD officials that efforts were being made to facilitate semester registration for 'willing' students.
A Delhi court on Thursday sent Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case, to one day police custody after the prosecution said that he was needed to be confronted with the other two arrested JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
Should he begin the yatra from Gujarat's Porbandar, the birthplace of the Mahatma, on October 2, and skip campaigning for the five assembly polls?
However, masters degree with National Eligibility Test or PhD would continue to be the minimum eligibility criterion for direct recruitment in colleges, a senior official said.
The HCU on Thursday revoked the suspension of four Dalit students against whom action was taken along with another research scholar Rohith Vemula Chakravarthi.
The police had earlier said that it cannot comment on the pleas seeking cancellation of interim bail granted to Kanhaiya without verifying facts and they were investigating whether any bail condition was violated.
'Especially at a time when truth is being twisted and a new narrative is being manufactured.'
The court noted that there was no ground not to grant them the relief.
The new system will consider the university or college as one unit, instead of treating department or subject as one unit.
Delhi Police spokesperson Mandeep Singh Randhawa said the internal security of the JNU lies with the varsity administration. He said the police did not reach late and handled the situation professionally.
The Congress has promised to review and amend a host of laws, rules and regulations.
Doctors are demanding certain amendments in the bill. According to them, if not amended, the bill will lead to deterioration of medical education and degradation of healthcare services.
Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya along with other students started the hunger strike at night and said they reject the findings and recommendations of the high-level inquiry committee that probed the incident.
The SC, however, rejected NIA's request for immediate stay to the order.
The case was last week transferred from South District to the Crime Branch.
'Cracking the exam is 99 per cent hard work and persistence and maybe 1 per cent luck.'
In his letter, the Delhi CM wrote that it was completely wrong to brand the varisty as a "centre of terrorists" and demanded immediate release of "innocents" arrested in the case.
Bihar is no stranger to being at the centre of a tectonic shift in national politics fuelled by turbulent regional forces.
Today, a friendship forged by common ideals behind prison walls has become a transactional understanding, notes Aditi Phadnis.
'We were children and could not distinguish freedom from bondage, but we could understand that a momentous and happy event was imminent.'
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case, says he is a victim of conspiracy and falsely implicated by 'fabricating' evidence.
'We will raise our voice against AFSPA,' the JNUSU president said at an event.
With tambourines and guitars in their hands and songs of revolution on their lips, people protested against the attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University students throughout the night in front of the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in south Mumbai. People, including students and women, in large numbers had gathered in front of the Gateway of India in South Mumbai's Colaba on Sunday midnight.
This is the first time in the institute's 62-year history that a new academic year will start with no students on campus. Other IITs are likely to follow suit with similar announcements for the autumn semester that runs from July till December.
The sniffer dogs failed to make any headway and stopped after circling around in the hostel.
'Politics affects everything in your life...' 'It's a wrong perception that artistes should not talk about politics.'
'Kanhaiya is eager to play a more active political role as a young leader of a major mainstream party.'
'I am not the Manas Deka who attacked Kanhaiya,' says the BJP activist who shares the same name with the man who allegedly tried to 'strangle' the JNUSU leader.
Malik believes he can solve the problems of farmers and is sending signals to the government to give him a chance.
'Since there is no photo-op, or quick fix solutions, politicians do not want to address climate change. It is very unfashionable.'
'A large number of people from Sindh province will now opt to migrate to India as they would be granted citizenship through an easy process.'
Scores of students on Friday staged a protest outside the CBSE office in Delhi against the paper leak.
'O P Sharma pulled me down to the ground and started punching and kicking me.' 'The Delhi police, instead of arresting Sharma and the others, detained me for five hours after this incident.'
