Attack On Professor

To shed light on the intricate dynamics at play, NDTV spoke with Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University and author of multiple books on the Middle East, to understand the status quo and what the future might hold.

A video circulating on social media shows a retired professor in Bihar's Chapra district collapsing on stage and dying of a heart attack during a religious event.

Punjab Education Minister Pargat Singh on Sunday attacked SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal over recruitment of assistant professors in government colleges, saying he being agitated over higher education is like "Kangana Ranaut turning into a farm activi

Professors from top universities and research institutes are together demanding a ban on the use of lethal autonomous weapons against humans. In their appeal to the world governments, they cited a recent UN report of a drone airstrike in Libya by a devious Turkish-made weapons system, STM Kargu-2, that needed no human oversight.

Around 150 renowned intellectuals from the world's best known centres of academic excellence have written an open letter to the trustees, administrators, and faculty of Ashoka University, Sonepat, expressing solidarity with Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta who recently quit the institution citing Founders' insecurities over his criticism of the governm...

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan is the latest among a host of global academics to voice their distress over the exit of two renowned intellectuals, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramaniam, from Ashoka University earlier this week citing alleged curbs on free speech. "Free speech is the soul of a great university. By compromis...

A professor of Jadavpur University has been subjected to casteist attacks on social media for a post about conducting final semester exams during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Writer Arundhati Roy on Wednesday slammed the government for the "relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers", a day after an associate professor of the Delhi University was arrested by the NIA in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case.

A court New Delhi has sought action taken report (ATR) from Delhi Police on a plea filed by a JNU professor seeking registration of FIR in a case related to attack on students and teachers in the varsity campus on January 5.

The Delhi High Court has issued notices to WhatsApp, Google, Facebook and Apple Inc on a petition seeking preservation of data including CCTV footage, WhatsApp messages, relevant data and information relating to the January 5 violence that took at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The court has also sought responses from Delhi Police and t...

A professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has quit a government panel tasked with reviewing economic data a day before its first meeting, "disturbed" by the masked mob attack on students and teachers at the university on Sunday. "I regret to inform you that, because of the situation in JNU where I stay, I will be unable to attend tomorrow's ...

Sucharita Sen has been associated with the Jawaharlal Nehru University for the last 20 years, having joined the renowned institution as a student before going on to become a professor in its teaching faculty. Today, she is scared to go back there for the first time in her life.

A Sanskrit professor at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi has been allegedly attacked by students for supporting his Muslim colleague, Feroz Khan, whose appointment to the department as assistant professor had sent students on protests since the past one month.

Former Delhi University professor SAR Geelani, who was arrested and later acquitted by the Supreme Court in connection with the Parliament attack case, died on Thursday following a cardiac arrest, his family said.

The Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association (JTSA) on Sunday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his silence over a mob attack on an Assistant Professor in the state.

To shed light on the intricate dynamics at play, NDTV spoke with Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University and author of multiple books on the Middle East, to understand the status quo and what the future might hold.

A video circulating on social media shows a retired professor in Bihar's Chapra district collapsing on stage and dying of a heart attack during a religious event.

Punjab Education Minister Pargat Singh on Sunday attacked SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal over recruitment of assistant professors in government colleges, saying he being agitated over higher education is like "Kangana Ranaut turning into a farm activi

Professors from top universities and research institutes are together demanding a ban on the use of lethal autonomous weapons against humans. In their appeal to the world governments, they cited a recent UN report of a drone airstrike in Libya by a devious Turkish-made weapons system, STM Kargu-2, that needed no human oversight.

Around 150 renowned intellectuals from the world's best known centres of academic excellence have written an open letter to the trustees, administrators, and faculty of Ashoka University, Sonepat, expressing solidarity with Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta who recently quit the institution citing Founders' insecurities over his criticism of the governm...

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan is the latest among a host of global academics to voice their distress over the exit of two renowned intellectuals, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramaniam, from Ashoka University earlier this week citing alleged curbs on free speech. "Free speech is the soul of a great university. By compromis...

A professor of Jadavpur University has been subjected to casteist attacks on social media for a post about conducting final semester exams during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Writer Arundhati Roy on Wednesday slammed the government for the "relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers", a day after an associate professor of the Delhi University was arrested by the NIA in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case.

A court New Delhi has sought action taken report (ATR) from Delhi Police on a plea filed by a JNU professor seeking registration of FIR in a case related to attack on students and teachers in the varsity campus on January 5.

The Delhi High Court has issued notices to WhatsApp, Google, Facebook and Apple Inc on a petition seeking preservation of data including CCTV footage, WhatsApp messages, relevant data and information relating to the January 5 violence that took at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The court has also sought responses from Delhi Police and t...

A professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has quit a government panel tasked with reviewing economic data a day before its first meeting, "disturbed" by the masked mob attack on students and teachers at the university on Sunday. "I regret to inform you that, because of the situation in JNU where I stay, I will be unable to attend tomorrow's ...

Sucharita Sen has been associated with the Jawaharlal Nehru University for the last 20 years, having joined the renowned institution as a student before going on to become a professor in its teaching faculty. Today, she is scared to go back there for the first time in her life.

A Sanskrit professor at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi has been allegedly attacked by students for supporting his Muslim colleague, Feroz Khan, whose appointment to the department as assistant professor had sent students on protests since the past one month.

Former Delhi University professor SAR Geelani, who was arrested and later acquitted by the Supreme Court in connection with the Parliament attack case, died on Thursday following a cardiac arrest, his family said.

The Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association (JTSA) on Sunday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his silence over a mob attack on an Assistant Professor in the state.