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Topic: JNU campus

The story of JNU’s first woman VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit and why students turned against her

An alumna of JNU, students are now demanding that VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit resign after allegations of insensitivity, corruption and political bias surfaced.

JNU Barak Hostel menu row isn’t just about pork, beef — it’s about who belongs

For Northeastern students in Delhi, cooking traditional food is not just a matter of taste but an act of resistance, courage, and cultural assertion.

No primordial identity politics in campus, says JNU VC, weeks after casteist slur on walls

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.

How Covid has turned JNU’s once-thriving addas — its canteens, dhabas — into ghost points

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.

BJP hand-in-glove in every single attack on colleges, students: Congress MLA Praniti Shinde

'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.

Teaching, activism and politics — what former JNUSU presidents are doing now

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 violence: Student bodies turning as intolerant, confrontational as national politics?

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.

After what happened at Jamia, we didn’t want to enter JNU without V-C nod, says police

Delhi Police officers say they had informed the JNU V-C about ‘simmering tension’, but permission to enter the campus came only after 3 hrs.

JNU attack aided by administration, says teachers association, demands V-C’s resignation

JNUTA wants a judicial inquiry into Sunday's incident and says neither police nor the varsity administration can be trusted with a fair probe.

JNU violence: Pooja Bhatt advises Bollywood, Javadekar attacks FT & Reddit’s reminder

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.