Afzal Guru Protest

"If not your mother, who would you salute, Afzal Guru," Vice President Venkaiah Naidu today asked, apparently questioning why there were objections to saying 'Vande Mataram', which meant salute to the motherland.

Members of the RSS-backed ABVP today staged a protest outside Delhi Police headquarters demanding that a charge sheet be filed in last year's sedition case against three JNU students. Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested in February last year over sedition charges in connection with an event on the JNU campus during wh...

Amid a raging debate on nationalism following the Ramjas College protests, union minister Kiren Rijiju today posted a video of a soldier expressing his anguish over what he called the "support" condemned men like Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru receive from some quarters in the nation.

A year after Delhi Police booked JNU student leaders such as Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid for sedition over a controversial protest on the campus, the police are yet to file a charge-sheet against them, the first step to putting them on trial. Junior home minister Kiren Rijiju - who called the slogans raised in support of Afzal Guru and Kashmiri...

JNU students, whom the varsity has punished for indiscipline in connection with the controversial February 9 last year event, today told the Delhi High Court that they were never told by JNU that a high-level enquiry committee (HLEC) was carrying out disciplinary proceedings.

For an event organised in February against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, an appellate authority of Jawaharlal Nehru University has found 21 students guilty of indiscipline.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is believed to be seeking legal opinion over punishment to a few students in connection with an event against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.

With the controversy over Afzal Guru event at JNU still going on, the varsity's students are gearing up for more protests especially against the series of showcause notices served to students on different issues.

JNU students who have been served show cause notices in connection with the controversial Afzal Guru event row, replied on Friday saying that they do not have "faith" in the enquiry.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today filed a fresh salvo at BJP, terming it as the "most anti-national of all" and alleged that it was shielding those who raised anti-India slogans on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) panel's recommendation that its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar and other varsity scholars be rusticated for their alleged role in connection with the raising of anti-national slogans on its campus.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University today revoked the academic suspension of eight students including its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar in connection with the controversial event at its campus to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru.

Amid a raging political row over sedition that has engulfed the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the prestigious institution has bagged the President's award for excellence in research and innovation.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who walked out of Tihar on bail last week where he was lodged in a sedition case, today indicated that he is unlikely to campaign in the upcoming West Bengal and Kerala Assembly polls.

The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, leader at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, may have catapulted him into an icon of the right to free speech, but a student much younger than him feels he's markedly undeserving of that status.

"If not your mother, who would you salute, Afzal Guru," Vice President Venkaiah Naidu today asked, apparently questioning why there were objections to saying 'Vande Mataram', which meant salute to the motherland.

Members of the RSS-backed ABVP today staged a protest outside Delhi Police headquarters demanding that a charge sheet be filed in last year's sedition case against three JNU students. Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested in February last year over sedition charges in connection with an event on the JNU campus during wh...

Amid a raging debate on nationalism following the Ramjas College protests, union minister Kiren Rijiju today posted a video of a soldier expressing his anguish over what he called the "support" condemned men like Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru receive from some quarters in the nation.

A year after Delhi Police booked JNU student leaders such as Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid for sedition over a controversial protest on the campus, the police are yet to file a charge-sheet against them, the first step to putting them on trial. Junior home minister Kiren Rijiju - who called the slogans raised in support of Afzal Guru and Kashmiri...

JNU students, whom the varsity has punished for indiscipline in connection with the controversial February 9 last year event, today told the Delhi High Court that they were never told by JNU that a high-level enquiry committee (HLEC) was carrying out disciplinary proceedings.

For an event organised in February against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, an appellate authority of Jawaharlal Nehru University has found 21 students guilty of indiscipline.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is believed to be seeking legal opinion over punishment to a few students in connection with an event against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.

With the controversy over Afzal Guru event at JNU still going on, the varsity's students are gearing up for more protests especially against the series of showcause notices served to students on different issues.

JNU students who have been served show cause notices in connection with the controversial Afzal Guru event row, replied on Friday saying that they do not have "faith" in the enquiry.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today filed a fresh salvo at BJP, terming it as the "most anti-national of all" and alleged that it was shielding those who raised anti-India slogans on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) panel's recommendation that its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar and other varsity scholars be rusticated for their alleged role in connection with the raising of anti-national slogans on its campus.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University today revoked the academic suspension of eight students including its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar in connection with the controversial event at its campus to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru.

Amid a raging political row over sedition that has engulfed the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the prestigious institution has bagged the President's award for excellence in research and innovation.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who walked out of Tihar on bail last week where he was lodged in a sedition case, today indicated that he is unlikely to campaign in the upcoming West Bengal and Kerala Assembly polls.

The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, leader at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, may have catapulted him into an icon of the right to free speech, but a student much younger than him feels he's markedly undeserving of that status.