Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said administration was in the process of effecting several changes that would tighten security on the grounds and also for students.
The students were staging a protest on the campus alleging that they had not received their fellowship in over a year, a member from the RSS-backed student group said.
Once a hub for food and social activity, the 20-odd eateries in JNU are barely able to meet operational costs, let alone turn profit, as Covid has kept most customers off campus.
'If they can enter autonomous institutions, it won’t be too long before they enter our homes,' Congress MLA Praniti Shinde says at ThePrint’s Democracy Wall.
Sitaram Yechury, Kanhaiya Kumar are examples of those who joined politics after JNU, while past presidents such as V. Lenin Kumar, Dhananjay Tripathi chose academics.
JNU student body president Aishe Ghosh, who was injured in Sunday's violence, said it was an organised attack and accused the JNU security of not intervening.
JNU Teachers' Association said the university administration was complicit. They demanded a judicial inquiry into the attack and the resignation of Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar.
While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
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