Sunday, May 18, 2025

Topic: TISS

A year after suspension, SC orders TISS to reinstate Dalit PhD scholar and left student leader

The Supreme Court of India on Friday directed the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to reinstate Dalit PhD scholar and left student leader Ramadas K.S. as a student with immediate effect, while hearing his petition challenging the two-year suspension and ban on entry to any TISS campus.

Hate speech against Muslims in TISS WhatsApp groups after Pahalgam attack; left student body demands action

The Progressive Students Forum (PSF), a left student collective in Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, has raised a serious complaint with the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) regarding a surge of hate speech targeting Muslims in the aftermath of the recent Pahalgam militant attack.

Bombay High Court dismisses plea of Dalit PhD student and left student leader against TISS suspension

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by Dalit PhD scholar and left student leader Ramadas K.S. against his two-year arbitrary suspension from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) for alleged "repetitive misconduct and anti-national activities."

TISS professor gets notice for expressing solidarity with suspended student leader

The Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) has issued a show-cause notice to Dr Arjun Sengupta, an Assistant Professor for expressing his solidarity with student leader and PhD scholar Ramadas Prini Sivanandan, who had been suspended by the TISS administration.

TISS Hyderabad: Pro-VC refused to give certificate to student for wearing keffiyeh on campus

Professor Shankar Das, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), has been accused of withholding a graduating student’s degree during the convocation at TISS Hyderabad because the student wore a keffiyeh, a symbol of solidarity with Palestine, within the campus premises, though not on stage.

“Kept in custody by police, certificate taken away”: TISS students who displayed placards at convocation

Graduating students of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai alleged that they faced police action for displaying placards demanding the revocation of a student's suspension during convocation on Friday.