Students, who are agitating over the alleged inaction of university in the case of missing student Najeeb Ahmed, have not allowed the vice chancellor and about 12 other officials to come out of the building since Wednesday afternoon.
The JNU VC said the "status of shudras given to women in Manusmriti" makes it extraordinarily regressive.
A former Jawaharlal Nehru University students union member has alleged that she was raped by an ex office-bearer of the All India Students Federation following which a zero FIR has been registered against him.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 10 the hearing on the bail plea of former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in a case lodged under anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) over his alleged involvement in the conspiracy behind the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020.
Amid mounting outrage over the Jawaharlal Nehru University row, it has emerged now that student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was slapped with sedition charge based on a video clip of the controversial event at the university aired by a Hindi news channel.
"Hum kya chahe - Azadi. Kashmir ki Azadi. Manipur ki Azadi. Nagaland ki Azadi (We demand freedom. Kashmir's freedom. Manipur's freedom. Nagaland's freedom)," one of the posters said.
'Elections and audience interest in specific movies are often independent factors.'
"The CBI lab sent a report to Delhi police's Special Cell on June 8 saying the raw footage was authentic," a police source said.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday set aside the life sentence of Delhi University professor G N Saibaba in an alleged Maoist links case, noting that the prosecution failed to prove the charges beyond reasonable doubt.
'The kind of situation we are seeing...we don't believe that this can happen in a settled democracy like India'
The BJP president demanded that Rahul apologise for his stand on the JNU issue, saying support to anti-national forces in the name of the Left's progressive ideology is not acceptable.
We have demanded that Kanhaiya be released and the home minister has assured us that no action will be taken against any innocent student," the CPI-M leader added.
In 2017, a retired R&AW officer conveyed that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was keen to get monarchy restored in Nepal and suggested that I support these efforts.
Jawaharlal Nehru University students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charge for allegedly raising anti-India slogans at the university campus last month, were on Friday granted interim bail for six months by a Delhi court on ground of parity with Kanhaiya Kumar.
'He has emerged as a formidable leader who cannot be ignored anymore, who cannot be mocked.'
The Centre has approved the setting up of Bhagat Singh Chair at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. The Bhagat Singh Chair will focus on the revolutionary movements in the country since 1757.
'We were activists when we were students. It was as students that we were propelled to fight for justice. Neither of us regret that.' 'Where the country is now, more and more people should become vocal.'
'2019 was fought on delivery. But in 2024, you can see the before and after effects.'
Students, professors and women rights organisations have been protesting, demanding his arrest, after some students accused him of sexual harassment.
Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion.
In the second such incident within a week, a female student of Jawaharlal Nehru University was attacked and molested inside the campus allegedly by a former student.
The signatories to a letter sent to NCERT Director Dinesh Saklani include Kanti Prasad Bajpai, a former Jawaharlal Nehru University professor who currently serves as the vice dean at the National University, Singapore, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a former vice-chancellor of the Ashoka University, Rajeev Bhargava, a former director of CSDS, Niraja Gopal Jayal, a former JNU professor, Nivedita Menon, a JNU professor, Vipul Mudgal, the head of civil society watchdog Common Cause, K C Suri, a former professor at the University of Hyderabad who is now associated with the Gitam University, and Peter Ronald deSouza, a former director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies.
Najeeb Ahmad had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the JNU in New Delhi on October 15, 2016, following a scuffle the previous night with some students allegedly affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
Ridiculing allegations of having received "foreign funding", the students charged with sedition in connection with a controversial event on JNU campus against hanging of Afzal Guru claimed that it takes only "Rs 100" to organise any programme at the varsity.
Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, who was released from the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday after his acquittal in an alleged Maoist links case, said it's a 'wonder that he could come out alive' despite suffering the 'brutal' jail life.
The sniffer dogs failed to make any headway and stopped after circling around in the hostel.
Promising firm action against the demonstrators, the home minister reiterated that anti-national statements cannot be forgiven.
'In the BJP I realised they are a different people with different mindset. They had a different ideology which was more rigid, and somewhere I was not comfortable.'
The JNU issued show-cause notice to 21 students after an inquiry panel found them "guilty of violating" norms in connection with the event against Afzal Guru's hanging.
The three former office-bearers of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, who had resigned from the party in protest against the Centre's handling of the raging row at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, said they were being "mocked" at for supporting the BJP's student wing and the "guilt" made them take the strong step.
Citing the incidents in the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Patiala House court, the opposition led by the Congress on Thursday slammed the government in Rajya Sabha and alleged that law and order in Delhi had deteriorated
According to the latest status report filed by the Delhi Police, Kanhaiya 'actively' participated in the 'unlawful' assembly in which 'anti-national' slogans were raised.
'If JNU students are anti-national, why do we send in the police? Why not send in intellectuals like M V Kamath to have a debate and discussion?'
During the hearing, Umar Khalid's lawyer told the court that his client was willing to surrender at a time and location, but the Delhi Police objected to the place.
The woman is a first-year PhD student and she has alleged that Anmol Ratan, a JNU student and AISA activist raped her on Saturday, police said.
Thousands of students took to the streets demanding justice for Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and protesting the Jawaharlal Nehru University crisis.
A group of 10 JNU teachers has released a 400-page document prepared last year detailing past controversial events on the campus.
If the party's members aren't sure what it stands for, see no path to wealth or power, and endure control by a dynasty, which, almighty as it is within the party, cannot get them the votes, they are likely to explore options, notes Shekhar Gupta.
The court also sought an undertaking from Kanhaiya that he will allow the university to function properly and there will be no agitation.
A police source said Umar and Anirban are presently being interrogated by two separate teams led by Assistant Commissioner of Police rank officials.
