Iit Madras Protests

A German exchange student studying at IIT Madras has reportedly been sent back for participating in protests on campus and elsewhere in Chennai against the citizenship law and the police crackdown on students in Delhi.

Two students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on Monday launched an indefinite fast on the campus demanding an internal inquiry into the conduct of faculty as sought by the family of a woman student who committed suicide recently.

A large number of students held a protest at the Indian Institute of Technology or IIT Madras against an attack on a research scholar who participated in a "beef fest" earlier this week. The beef fest was organised to protest against the Centre's new cattle rules, which the students say infringe on their right to eat what they want. There have been...

A research scholar at IIT-Madras was thrashed by a group of students on Tuesday, reportedly because he had led Sunday's "beef fest" at the IIT-Madras (Indian Institute of Technology) campus against the Centre's cattle trade rules last week.

Around 80 students participated in a "beef fest" at the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras last night, where they also discussed the Central government's recent ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at cattle markets.

Students of FTII demanding removal of small screen actor Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of the institute have approached Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, seeking his intervention to check the "assault on institutions of higher learning".

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has reinstated a students' group whose de-recognition had sparked a major controversy. The Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC), a group of around 20 students, was de-recognised on May 29 following an anonymous complaint to the central government, accusing it of trying to "spread hatred" towards Prim...

After five days of protests and violence, talks are in progress between the authorities of IIT-Madras and the representatives of the temporarily derecognised students' group Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle.

The student protest outside the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, turned violent this morning with protesters clashing with the police.

Around 50 students from different universities across Mumbai are protesting against the derecognition of a student association at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

The derecognition of a student association at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is turning political in Tamil Nadu, with students wing of DMK and some other groups planning a protest in Chennai today.

If the political right to protest is sacred, both inside and outside Parliament where so many 'unacceptable' statements have been made of late, then so is the individual right to dissent.

It has been a day of tit for tat political protests in the national capital with Delhi witnessing simultaneous protests by the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP - the two parties that have been at loggerheads in a Centre vs State turf war.

Dozens of activists belonging to the Democratic Youth Federation of India were detained today after they attempted to stage a blockade outside IIT Madras in protest against its ban on a student group allegedly after an anonymous complaint to the central government

The ban on a student group by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, allegedly after an anonymous complaint to the central government, ignited a political storm in Delhi and protests against Union Education Minister Smriti Irani today.

A German exchange student studying at IIT Madras has reportedly been sent back for participating in protests on campus and elsewhere in Chennai against the citizenship law and the police crackdown on students in Delhi.

Two students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on Monday launched an indefinite fast on the campus demanding an internal inquiry into the conduct of faculty as sought by the family of a woman student who committed suicide recently.

A large number of students held a protest at the Indian Institute of Technology or IIT Madras against an attack on a research scholar who participated in a "beef fest" earlier this week. The beef fest was organised to protest against the Centre's new cattle rules, which the students say infringe on their right to eat what they want. There have been...

A research scholar at IIT-Madras was thrashed by a group of students on Tuesday, reportedly because he had led Sunday's "beef fest" at the IIT-Madras (Indian Institute of Technology) campus against the Centre's cattle trade rules last week.

Around 80 students participated in a "beef fest" at the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Madras last night, where they also discussed the Central government's recent ban on sale of cattle for slaughter at cattle markets.

Students of FTII demanding removal of small screen actor Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of the institute have approached Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, seeking his intervention to check the "assault on institutions of higher learning".

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has reinstated a students' group whose de-recognition had sparked a major controversy. The Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC), a group of around 20 students, was de-recognised on May 29 following an anonymous complaint to the central government, accusing it of trying to "spread hatred" towards Prim...

After five days of protests and violence, talks are in progress between the authorities of IIT-Madras and the representatives of the temporarily derecognised students' group Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle.

The student protest outside the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, turned violent this morning with protesters clashing with the police.

Around 50 students from different universities across Mumbai are protesting against the derecognition of a student association at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

The derecognition of a student association at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is turning political in Tamil Nadu, with students wing of DMK and some other groups planning a protest in Chennai today.

If the political right to protest is sacred, both inside and outside Parliament where so many 'unacceptable' statements have been made of late, then so is the individual right to dissent.

It has been a day of tit for tat political protests in the national capital with Delhi witnessing simultaneous protests by the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP - the two parties that have been at loggerheads in a Centre vs State turf war.

Dozens of activists belonging to the Democratic Youth Federation of India were detained today after they attempted to stage a blockade outside IIT Madras in protest against its ban on a student group allegedly after an anonymous complaint to the central government

The ban on a student group by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, allegedly after an anonymous complaint to the central government, ignited a political storm in Delhi and protests against Union Education Minister Smriti Irani today.