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Violence at JNU Planned to Boost Hindu Rashtra: Response of Punjabi Commenters

A number of commenters, activists and thinkers held a meeting in Chandigarh on Tuesday (Jan. 7) and condemned brutal attack by masked armed goons on JNU students.

Innocents no more — Excerpts from Partap Bhanu Mehta’s Writeup on JNU Attack

A writeup titled "Innocents no more", penned by academician and thinker Partap Bhanu Mehta has appeared in The Indian Express's January 7, 2020 edition. Sikh Siyasat has extracted some excerpts of the write-up for the under sub-titled for in order to share it with the readers of the Sikh Siyasat News.

Hindu Raksha Dal Claims Responsibility For JNU Attack

As per reports in Indian Media, Pinky Chaudhary, president of 'Hindu Raksha Dal' has claimed the responsibility of Sunday's attack on students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

Delhi Police FIR Against Injured JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, 19 Others

As per reports emanating from New Delhi, the Delhi police has registered an FIR against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh and 19 others for allegedly attacking security guards.

Blaming Amit Shah for Engineering Violence on JNU Students, Sikh Body Demands His Resignation

Terming it a state-sponsored violence on JNU students and teachers unleashed by BJP’s student wing ABVP goons, the Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) squarely blamed it on Home Minister for engineering it. Both the organization demanded resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah and removal of Delhi police commissioner.

Delhi Police Shameful Bystanders To Mob Brutality On Students in JNU: Amnesty India

New Delhi: In response to a masked mob attacking at least 26 students and teachers in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Executive Director of Amnesty ...

JNU “Sedition” Case: Police Fail to Procure Prosecution Sanction

Delhi Police failed to procure prosecution sanction against former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case. Police informed the trial court that the sanction to prosecute, which is pending with the Delhi government, was expected in a few days.

JNU Students Leader Umar Khalid Shot At In Delhi, Escapes Unhurt

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid was shot at by an unidentified man outside Constitution Club of India in New Delhi on Monday afternoon. Umar Khalid managed to escape unhurt.

Assassination Of Scribe Gauri Lankesh Alarming, Another Proof Of Intolerant & Insecure India

Demanding that killers to be hunted as earliest as possible, Punjab based pro-freedom group Dal Khalsa said the cold-blooded murder of senior

Speech of JNU Students Leader Umar Khalid at Jalandhar (14 August, 2017)

A Sikh group Dal Khalsa held a conference at Jalandhar on Monday, August 14 against misuse of sedition law by Indian state and atrocities on Muslims and Dalits by pseudo Gau Rakshaks. This is video recording of speech of JNU student leader Umar Khalid.

To Counter Leftist Ideology RSS Chief to meet Academicians to Discuss Rewriting of University Curriculums

The pro Hindutva outfit the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief here on Friday has called for a covert meeting of the vice chancellors and academicians over the weekend to

Curse of Caste: Dalit Scholar of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Commits Suicide

Just a year after the shocking suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University, another Dalit scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Muthu Krishnan (28) committed suicide in a friend’s home.

The Tribal Versus Development (by Umar Khalid, JNU)

Umar Khalid a PhD research scholar at JNU, New Delhi has written an opinion article upon the root cause of the on going conflict in the tribal belt of central and eastern India.

Academic Freedom Being Eroded In India: Amartya Sen

Nobel prize laureate in Economics Amartya Sen has said that the concept of autonomy of universities was increasingly becoming "alien" in the sub continent,

Free Speech and Academic Freedom under Threat in Indian Universities: says Amnesty India

Academic freedom in universities must be protected recent events at Ramjas college in Delhi illustrate the growing threat to freedom of expression on Indian university campuses, said Amnesty International India.

Jodhpur University files Complain Against JNU Professor For its Kashmir Remarks

As per the media reports the Registrar of Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur has filed a police complaint against JNU professor Nivedita Menon over her alleged

JNU Students burn effigy of Indian PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah depicting them as ‘Ravana’

A section of Jawahar Lal Nehru (JNU) students chose the visages of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah to depict them as Raavan and burnt the effigy.

I was misinterpretted, Both 1984 and 2002 were state led pogroms: Kanhaiya Kumar

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president and a young leftist Kanhaiya Kumar who had come under heavy criticism for his statement advocating differentiation between 1984 and 2002 massacres (read related news below), has offered a clarification maintaining that he was "misinterpreted" once again.

Sorry Kanhaiya, We Can’t Agree With You On 1984: Responses from Shehla Rashid and Sucheta De

Here are two responses on Kanhaiya’s statement differentiating between 1984 and 2002. One from JNUSU Vice-President and the Other from Sucheta De, a prominent leader of All India Students’ Association

1984 & 2002: Is My Violence Better Than Yours? A Fact Check

A badly written, and slightly garbled Press Trust of India report has stated that Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar has sought to differentiate between the 1984 anti-Sikh and 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Delhi and Gujarat respectively.

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