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JNU’s Aishe Ghosh among young leaders in Bengal CPI(M)’s candidate list
PUBLISHED ON MAR 10, 2021 11:40 PM IST
- This is the first time the Bengal CPI(M), which is often described by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) as a party burdened with age, has fielded so many young leaders in a crucial assembly poll alongside veterans.

No proposal for JNU name change, says union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal
PTI |
PUBLISHED ON FEB 08, 2021 10:29 PM IST
BJP general secretary C T Ravi had proposed last year a name change of the JNU after Swami Vivekananda.

Month after mob attack on JNU campus, probe has zero answers
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Prawesh Lama and Fareeha Iftikhar
UPDATED ON SEP 07, 2020 09:10 PM IST
On January 5, a mob of masked men and women, carrying iron rods, sticks and a sledgehammer had assaulted students and teachers on JNU campus, injuring at least 30, while a police contingent waited outside the university gate for a formal permission by the administration to enter the campus

Deepika Padukone should hire me as advisor, study political issues first: Ramdev
Indore | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JAN 14, 2020 10:44 AM IST
Padukone has been drawing flak from right wing leaders and trolls for expressing solidarity with the students on the JNU campus in New Delhi who were protesting against the January 5 violence.

Jamia cancels exams; JNU teachers say no classes till VC resigns
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondents
UPDATED ON JAN 14, 2020 05:37 AM IST
In Jamia Millia Islamia, where police launched a violent crackdown on December 15 after protests began over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA, the vice chancellor cancelled examinations and announced efforts to approach court for an FIR against police officials.

Deepika JNU visit: ‘She said a lot without saying a word’: Jyotiraditya Scindia
UPDATED ON MAR 15, 2020 04:00 PM IST

‘We stand with you’: Shashi Tharoor extends support to students protesting at JNU
UPDATED ON MAR 15, 2020 03:55 PM IST

JNU violence: Police identify masked woman in armed group
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Karn Pratap Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 24, 2020 07:44 AM IST
JNU students and teachers have been alleging that the masked woman was from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The SIT officials refused to comment on the accused woman’s political affiliation.

Amit Shah lashes out at Opposition over CAA
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Jabalpur | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 13, 2020 02:35 AM IST
Without mentioning the recent violence on JNU, Delhi campus, the Union home minister said, “Anti-India slogan- ‘Bharat tere tukde honge inshallah inshallah’ was raised on JNU campus.

JNUSU denies police theory, says they are speaking ABVP language
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 12, 2020 03:26 AM IST
JNUSU members said that the Delhi Police’s preliminary investigation report was the same as the posts that ABVP members were sharing on social media.

Ajay Devgn says ‘wait for proper facts to emerge’ in JNU violence, Anubhav Sinha asks ‘You done waiting?’
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 11, 2020 06:07 PM IST
After Ajay Devgn said that people should wait for the “proper facts” to come out in the JNU violence, Anubhav Sinha said that he was “still waiting”.

Left students led by JNU Students Union president Aishe Ghosh behind violence, say cops
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondents
PUBLISHED ON JAN 11, 2020 02:34 AM IST
Police said that union president Ghosh was a part of the mob of masked faces that attacked students in “specific rooms” inside the Periyar hostel. Police released a blurred video grab of a woman whom they claimed was Ghosh, standing with some masked men and women.

Chorus in JNU: ‘Cops shielding accused’
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Kainat Sarfaraz
UPDATED ON JAN 11, 2020 03:02 AM IST
One suspect identified was JNU Students’ Union head Aishe Ghosh, who was attacked by masked assailants on Sunday, following which she received 16 stitches to her head.

‘Inspires us all’: Raghuram Rajan on Deepika’s ‘silent protest’ at JNU
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 07:19 PM IST
In a blog, the former RBI governor Rajan said the news of a gang of masked assailants breaking into one of India’s leading universities, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and then going on a rampage for hours, attacking students and faculty, entirely undisturbed by the police, is “worrisome”.

‘Why is Delhi Police biased?’ asks JNU Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh after being named suspect in campus violence
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 05:32 PM IST
I have full faith in the law and order of this country that investigation will be fair and I will get justice, Ghosh said.

Top bureaucrats and JNU alumni on dissent, university culture
Hindustan Times, new Delhi | By Amandeep Shukla
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 04:35 PM IST
JNU has over the years contributed scores of bureaucrats and political leaders who have served the government with distinction.

Kangana Ranaut likens JNU violence to gang war: ‘Don’t make this a national issue, such goons are in every college’
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 12:24 PM IST
Kangana Ranaut has said these gang wars are managed by some powerful people, which leaves both the sides physically hurt and such things should not be made into a national issue.

JNU violence probe of Delhi Police focuses on 2 WhatsApp groups
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Anvit Srivastava
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 09:41 AM IST
Students shared screenshots of certain WhatsApp groups, to stress that Sunday’s violence was a planned one, police began looking closely at two groups that had at least 70 administrators.

JNU students, teachers march to MHRD, demand V-C’s removal
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 09:03 AM IST
A delegation of the protesters, including representatives of the JNU Teachers Association and JNUSU chief Aishe Ghosh, met HRD officials for submitting a memorandum demanding removal of the vice-chancellor.

Students booked for sedition in Mysuru
Bengaluru | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 05:36 AM IST
Mysuru Police Commissioner KT Balakrishna said the case had been registered suo motu (on their own) based on video and photographs showing one of the protestors ‘holding’ the placard which read Free Kashmir at the demonstration staged by some 100 students on Wednesday.

VC ‘loyalists’ on JNU panel to probe attack
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Fareeha Iftikhar
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 10:03 AM IST
While JNUSU and JNUTA are opposing the vice-chancellor (VC) M Jagadesh Kumar’s handling of the attack in which nearly 34 students were injured, the breakaway JNU Teachers’ Federation (JNUTF) has thrown its weight behind the VC, holding the protesting students responsible for the violence.

Will boycott Opposition meet on Jan 13, says Mamata Banerjee
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2020 01:56 AM IST
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, however, has insisted that she will continue opposing the CAA and an all-India National Register of Citizens.

JNU protestors get support from Pakistan students
Lahore | By Indo Asian News Service
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2020 06:48 PM IST
A group of students representing the students union gathered in front of the Lahore Press Club in the Punjab province of Pakistan, carrying placards and chanted slogans over the action against students.

JNU protesters’ march stopped at Shashtri Bhavan
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2020 03:18 PM IST
Hundreds of demonstrators hit the streets on Thursday protesting the recent violence at JNU and demanding resignation of the varsity vice-chancellor.

‘40 per cent match in identification of masked JNU arsonists’, say Delhi Police
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Sudhi Ranjan Sen
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2020 01:44 PM IST
In addition to the use of technology, the Delhi Police is also relying on the complaints from students.

‘Deepika should clarify why she stood with Kanhaiya Kumar’: Manoj Tiwari
UPDATED ON MAR 14, 2020 11:34 PM IST

‘Want more people to back silent majority of students’: JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Amandeep Shukla
UPDATED ON AUG 22, 2020 02:20 AM IST
Speaking on the protests against the violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar said that one needs to hear both sides and then make a judgment.

Bollywood is finding a voice. This is good news | HT Editorial
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2020 10:35 AM IST
Deepika Padukone showed courage. Actors speaking up enriches democracy

JNU: Right-aligned teachers’ body slams ‘militant agitators’, calls for peace
UPDATED ON MAR 14, 2020 08:20 PM IST

‘Some thinkers like venomous snakes, we will fix them’: Uma Bharti on JNU violence
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2020 10:17 AM IST
The Delhi Police is investigating the incident, and has identified a few people from the CCTV footages.