Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Topic: Students protest

Delhi: Students manhandled, detained for protesting UGC-NET cancellation

Several members of the student organisations on 20 June manhandled by police and detained while protesting outside Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's residence and the Ministry of Education in New Delhi against the cancellation of the UGC-NET examination and irregularities in the NEET.

NIT Calicut fines students Rs 33 lakh for protesting night curfew, suspensions of students over Ram temple protest

In a controversial move, the authorities at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut have imposed substantial fines totaling Rs 33 lakh on five students who were part of the Student Affairs Council and organizers of the protest held on 22 March, with each required to pay Rs 6,61,155.

Following ABVP disruption against play, PU students booked in suo moto case for ‘outraging religious feelings’

Following a protest and hate campaign by the Hindutva student outfit ABVP against a play at the annual cultural festival at Pondicherry University, the Kalapet Police have now suo motu registered a case against certain students and others on charges of "outraging religious feelings" while staging the play.

Rajasthan: Muslim teachers suspended following Hindu group’s campaign, students protest against suspension

Several students from Higher Senior Secondary School in Khajuri village in Rajasthan’s Kota gathered outside the Sub-District Magistrate’s (SDM) Office on Monday, February 26, demanding the revocation of the arbitrary suspension of three Muslim teachers from their school.

O.P. Jindal University: Students suspended for discussing Ram temple allege abusive calls, rape threats from Hindu right-wing

On 10 February, the administration of O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, owned by industrialist Naveen Jindal, suspended two law students for organising a public discussion on the topic 'Ram Mandir: A farcical project of Hindutva fascism.' The suspended students, associated with a Marxist student collective known as the Revolutionary Students League (RSL), include Mukundan, a second-year BA LLB (Hons) student from Kerala, and Ramnit, a third-year BA LLB (Hons) student from Delhi.

Hindutva men barge into FTII Pune, burn ‘remember Babri’ banner, attack students

A group of over a dozen Hindutva men barged into the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune on Tuesday afternoon, launching an attack on students, including females.