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Friday, April 26, 2024
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Topic: JNU

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.

14th-century Greek manuscript depicting ‘Indian tricolour’ to be displayed at JNU

'The Romance of Alexander', a Byzantine-era manuscript is being brought specially for an India-Greek conference to be held next week. It aims to broaden relations between the countries.

Ramashankar Yadav ‘Vidrohi’: The bard of JNU who challenged authority with poetry

Students would wait for Vidrohi’s poems at the end of their demonstrations. He was their voice on campus.

JNU orders probe after walls defaced with anti-Brahmin slurs, calm on campus

Right wing students accuse the Left of the vandalism, while the Left feels culprits were trying to frame a Dalit sanitation worker who is contesting civic polls.

From daily wager to academic chaos in Bihar to JNU via CUET, a student’s journey

Like 22-yr-old Adarsh Kumar, hundreds of students from Bihar's Magadh University remain without a degree even 5 yrs later. Kumar, has now taken the CUET route to study at JNU in Delhi.

CUET prioritises learning by rote, skimming texts. Knowledge cannot be just skin-deep

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

‘Left not fully consistent, coherent about democracy’, says Kavita Krishnan after CPI(M-L) exit

Activist says she wants to pursue 'troubling political questions', which was not possible while being in CPI (M-L). Party denies internal differences.

‘All women shudras according to Manusmriti’ — JNU V-C Pandit says caste discrimination ‘inhuman’

Speaking at the B.R. Ambedkar Lecture Series, the V-C said gods 'anthropologically don't come from the upper caste'. She also called Ambedkar a thinker who was ahead of his times.

JNU, BHU & 30 other varsities to admit PG students through CUET. DU, Jamia to skip it this year

UGC Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar is expecting more universities to join the list in coming months. The entrance test for postgraduate courses will be conducted in last week of July.

My appointment unsettled ‘progressives’ who thought JNU was their bastion, says V-C Pandit

Prof. Santishree D. Pandit also said JNU is severely cash-strapped, for which she blamed her predecessors. She expressed hope that JNUSU polls will happen this year.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.