Jnu Sedition Row

A court in Delhi questioned the Delhi Police on Saturday for filing a charge sheet against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case without procuring the requisite sanctions.

The government appeared to speak in two voices over Wednesday's violent clashes in Delhi's Ramjas College. While union education minister Prakash Javadekar said he would not interfere in the row as the college is autonomous, his cabinet colleague junior home minister Kiren Rijiju said colleges cannot be allowed to become "hub of anti-national activ...

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students guilty of violating varsity norms in connection with the controversial February 9 incident have been granted permission by the varsity to cast vote in the student union polls scheduled tomorrow.

Rohith Vemula's suicide, sedition row, nationalism and BR Ambedkar's vision were some of the topics that were part of the high-voltage JNU presidential debate ahead its students' union election.

Delhi police has filed three separate charge sheets relating to the brazen attacks on scribes and others at the Patiala House courts premises in New Delhi allegedly by a group of lawyers and others during production of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in an alleged sedition case.

The Left parties today gave a notice in the Rajya Sabha pressing for a discussion over the disciplinary action against Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, the students charged with sedition along with Kanhaiya Kumar, who was suspended for a semester by the Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU on charges of indiscipline.

Police have arrested two persons in connection with a death threat to JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, conveyed through a letter which was recovered with a loaded gun in a bus operating on a route between an ISBT and the varsity's campus.

After his visit to Nagpur, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar will next week meet the students of FTII here who had protested against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the chairman of the institute.

Delhi Police has beefed up the security of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid following the recovery of a letter threatening to behead the two and a gun in a bus operating between an ISBT and the varsity's campus.

Amid a row over its students being charged for sedition, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has received over 76,000 applications for admission to the upcoming academic session for around 2,700 seats in various programmes offered at the university, 3,000 less than previous year.

Days after allegedly receiving a threat from a BJP youth wing leader against inviting Kanhaiya Kumar, the students of Ranade Institute along with two other institutes in Pune came together today to invite the JNUSU leader to hear his side of the JNU issue.

A search for key words like "anti-national", "sedition", "patriotism" and "Bharat mata ki jai" on Google Maps is directing users to JNU or Delhi's Jawaharlal University or JNU, where three students, including Kanhaiya Kumar, were arrested last month.

India's sedition law, which has come under focus after the controversy surrounding JNU, needs "reconsideration," newly-appointed Law Commission Chairman Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan said today but asserted that the panel will not jump to any conclusion before hearing out stakeholders.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified today that he had not intended to equate Kanhaiya Kumar, the student recently arrested on charges of sedition at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

Hours after he was released on bail in a sedition case, JNU student Umar Khalid charged the government of spreading false rumours against him. "I did not project myself as a practising Muslim but I was treated like an Islamist terrorist," he said in a speech on campus tonight.

A court in Delhi questioned the Delhi Police on Saturday for filing a charge sheet against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case without procuring the requisite sanctions.

The government appeared to speak in two voices over Wednesday's violent clashes in Delhi's Ramjas College. While union education minister Prakash Javadekar said he would not interfere in the row as the college is autonomous, his cabinet colleague junior home minister Kiren Rijiju said colleges cannot be allowed to become "hub of anti-national activ...

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students guilty of violating varsity norms in connection with the controversial February 9 incident have been granted permission by the varsity to cast vote in the student union polls scheduled tomorrow.

Rohith Vemula's suicide, sedition row, nationalism and BR Ambedkar's vision were some of the topics that were part of the high-voltage JNU presidential debate ahead its students' union election.

Delhi police has filed three separate charge sheets relating to the brazen attacks on scribes and others at the Patiala House courts premises in New Delhi allegedly by a group of lawyers and others during production of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in an alleged sedition case.

The Left parties today gave a notice in the Rajya Sabha pressing for a discussion over the disciplinary action against Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, the students charged with sedition along with Kanhaiya Kumar, who was suspended for a semester by the Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU on charges of indiscipline.

Police have arrested two persons in connection with a death threat to JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, conveyed through a letter which was recovered with a loaded gun in a bus operating on a route between an ISBT and the varsity's campus.

After his visit to Nagpur, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar will next week meet the students of FTII here who had protested against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the chairman of the institute.

Delhi Police has beefed up the security of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid following the recovery of a letter threatening to behead the two and a gun in a bus operating between an ISBT and the varsity's campus.

Amid a row over its students being charged for sedition, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has received over 76,000 applications for admission to the upcoming academic session for around 2,700 seats in various programmes offered at the university, 3,000 less than previous year.

Days after allegedly receiving a threat from a BJP youth wing leader against inviting Kanhaiya Kumar, the students of Ranade Institute along with two other institutes in Pune came together today to invite the JNUSU leader to hear his side of the JNU issue.

A search for key words like "anti-national", "sedition", "patriotism" and "Bharat mata ki jai" on Google Maps is directing users to JNU or Delhi's Jawaharlal University or JNU, where three students, including Kanhaiya Kumar, were arrested last month.

India's sedition law, which has come under focus after the controversy surrounding JNU, needs "reconsideration," newly-appointed Law Commission Chairman Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan said today but asserted that the panel will not jump to any conclusion before hearing out stakeholders.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified today that he had not intended to equate Kanhaiya Kumar, the student recently arrested on charges of sedition at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

Hours after he was released on bail in a sedition case, JNU student Umar Khalid charged the government of spreading false rumours against him. "I did not project myself as a practising Muslim but I was treated like an Islamist terrorist," he said in a speech on campus tonight.