Dr G N Saibaba, arrested for links with Maoists, granted bail by SC
Nagpur: Dr G N Saibaba, the Delhi University Professor who was arrested for links with Maoists, was granted bail by the Supreme Court forthwith on Monday. The wheelchair-bound Professor was arrested in May 2014. He was granted bail July 2015...
JNU row: Outsiders raised controversial slogans, says university report
NewDelhi/Nagpur: A high-level inquiry committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru University has claimed in its report that provocative slogans at the controversial February 9 event were raised by a group of outsiders. Describing the incident as "unfortunate", the report said that...
‘Smriti Irani should go,’ says JNU’s Kanhaiya Kumar ahead of protest march
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU student charged with sedition, today denied that he had received any expulsion warning from the university. He led an "azaadi" protest march with five demands that include the exit of Education Minister Smriti...
Kanhaiya attacked at JNU by outsider, guards nab assaulter
New Delhi/Nagpur: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday was allegedly abused and attacked inside the university campus. The attacker, Vikas Chaudhary, claims to a student from Ghaziabad. According to students and teachers present there, the attacker called Kanhaiya for an interaction...
Tension rises as JNU PhD scholar commits suicide in South Delhi
New Delhi/Nagpur: A PhD scholar of the Jawaharlal Nehru University committed suicide in south Delhi's Ber Sarai area today. Police recovered Dushyant's body from his rented flat in Ber Sarai today morning. The 25-year-old student was from Bareilly in Uttar...
Rift within ABVP as Vice President of JNU unit will burn Manusmriti copy today
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The rift between members of the right wing students' organisation ABVP over the Manusmriti, the ancient text that outlines the laws of India's caste system and the status of women in society, widened on 7 March...
BJP youth leader expelled from party for his crude barb against Kanhaiya Kumar
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Going overboard and issuing an inflammatory statement proved nemesis for a BJP youth leader as he was expelled from the party forthright. Kuldeep Varshney of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) who had said that he...
Afzal Guru is not my icon, Rohith Vemula is: Kanhaiya Kumar
File pic New Delhi/Nagpur: Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union leader Kanhaiya Kumar today said that no students of the university can be anti-national. Addressing the students in JNU campus, Kanhaiya also said that the taxpayers' money is absolutely safe. "I want...
We are not asking for freedom from India, we are asking for freedom in India, says Kanhaiya
NewDelhi/Nagpur: JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar made a fiery speech on the university campus late tonight taking on the Narendra Modi-led government, hours after his release from jail. "I come from a village. Where there are a magic shows. People...
Today’s youths should be brimming with patriotism, naturally: RSS chief
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat gave his reaction, for the first time, over the raging controversy engulfing the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Attending a programme in city on Thursday, Bhagwat said, “Today, concerted efforts are being made...
Delhi Police say no video evidence of Kanhaiya raising anti-India slogans
New Delhi/Nagpur: Delhi Police on Monday told the High Court they have no video evidence of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar raising anti India slogans and were relying on three eye witness statements. This a clear climbdown from the earlier stance...
JNU Row: SC declines to hear contempt plea against Kanhaiya Kumar, SAR Geelani
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the plea seeking criminal contempt proceedings against Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and five other varsity students facing sedition charges and former professor SAR...
Sharad Pawar says BJP sowing seeds of secession as defeat staring in face; terms JNU issue as a political conspiracy
Mumbai/Nagpur: Hitting out at the BJP-led government over the JNU row, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said the party was sowing seeds of secession as it saw defeat staring in its face in the ensuing elections. "BJP sees defeat staring...
#JNURow: Ashutosh Kumar called in for questioning by Delhi police
New Delhi/Nagpur: One more Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student, who has been accused of sedition is under probe over the controversial event of 9 February where anti-India slogans were raised, said a NDTV report. The student, Ashutosh, is among the...
JNU row: SC to hear plea for action against lawyers on Friday
NewDelhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea on Friday seeking contempt action against three lawyers who were allegedly caught on camera ‘bragging and boasting’ that they had beaten up Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students union president Kanhaiya Kumar...
Budget session: Politics on protests; JNU row, Rohith Vemula suicide rock Parliament
New Delhi/Nagpur: There were angry exchanges, slogan-shouting, multiple adjournments, but no debate in the Rajya Sabha, which was scheduled to discuss the JNU controversy and the suicide of Hyderabad research scholar Rohith Vemula. The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till tomorrow...
Congress using JNU row to fight Modi: Bunty Kukde
Nagpur: In order to protest against the anti-national activities that has been going on in Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) jointly took out a rally on Wednesday...
#JNURow: Cornered by Delhi HC stand, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya surrender to Delhi Police
NewDelhi/Nagpur: In a dramatic late night development, Delhi Police arrested Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya after the two left the JNU campus and surrendered. The cops then drove around for almost 10km in an effort to dodge the media before taking...
Lawyer Yashpal Singh Who Attacked Journalists At JNU Hearing Arrested, Gets Bail
NEWDELHI/Nagpur: Yashpal Singh, one of the lawyers who was caught on camera attacking teachers, students and journalists at the court hearing in the JNU case in Delhi last week, was arrested and released by the police on bail on Tuesday. Mr...
Umar Khalid’s Nagpur Meet : Just meeting a naxal prove you’re naxalite?
File Pic Nagpur: Despite the Jat agitation pressing for reservation, the JNU fire refused to die down! The issue that engulfed the mental framework of entire nation has pointed out to the series of events that has cornered the BJP...
Kanhaiya’s bail, HC defers hearing till Wednesday
NewDelhi/Nagpur: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday deferred the bail plea hearing of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been arrested for alleged sedition, for a day. This came even as the Delhi Police opposed the...
