Nit Protests

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar has been closed and the students asked to leave the campus and the hostel amid tensions over an alleged blasphemous post by a non-local student.

Students at a premier engineering college in Assam on Monday staged a sit-in on the campus demanding the sacking of the dean of the academics for his alleged role in the suicide of a student recently.

NIT Silchar suicide: Students at the National Institute of Technology at Silchar in Cachar district of Assam on Friday night clashed with the police during an aggressive protest after the death of one of their fellow students at the college hostel.

More than 100 students of NIT, Uttarakhand had gone back home en masse last year after a prolonged agitation in protest against of lack of facilities at the institute's temporary campus in Shrinagar.

A 20-year old student of the National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT-K) jumped to death from his department building, sparking off a protest by other students who alleged constant nagging by a professor forced him to take his life, the police said.

The students of National Institute Of Technology (NIT), Srinagar today took out a protest march and demanded permanent deployment of the CRPF in the campus and reshuffling of college administration and immediate formation of Student's Council.

The NIT Srinagar today announced a revised schedule of examinations for outstation students who had skipped the tests earlier this month in the wake of trouble following clashes over India's defeat to the West Indies in the T20 World cup on March 31.

Amidst the unrest in NIT Srinagar campus, outstation students have demanded that academic activities in the institute, including the Minors (exams), beginning today, be deferred until normalcy returns.

Around 150 young people who were on their way to Srinagar to express solidarity with the non-local students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) were detained at Lakhanpur and not allowed to enter Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Saturday said the NIT stalemate should end as most of the demands of the protesting students have been accepted.

Students from four local colleges on Saturday blocked the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district.

The Jammu and Kashmir government will hold another meeting with protesting students at NIT Srinagar today after an earlier meeting late last night failed to end the protests and bring students back to their classes.

Faced with severe criticism for a lathicharge on protesting students at Srinagar's National Institute of Technology or NIT earlier this week, officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Police have expressed hurt in strongly worded social media posts.

Fresh protests today rocked the National Institute of Technology or NIT in Srinagar as some outstation students took out a march in the campus to press for their demands including a call to shift the institute out of Kashmir.

Student protesters at Srinagar's National Institute of Technology or NIT boycotted classes on Thursday morning and raised slogans in the campus demanding that the institute be shifted out of the Jammu and Kashmir capital.

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar has been closed and the students asked to leave the campus and the hostel amid tensions over an alleged blasphemous post by a non-local student.

Students at a premier engineering college in Assam on Monday staged a sit-in on the campus demanding the sacking of the dean of the academics for his alleged role in the suicide of a student recently.

NIT Silchar suicide: Students at the National Institute of Technology at Silchar in Cachar district of Assam on Friday night clashed with the police during an aggressive protest after the death of one of their fellow students at the college hostel.

More than 100 students of NIT, Uttarakhand had gone back home en masse last year after a prolonged agitation in protest against of lack of facilities at the institute's temporary campus in Shrinagar.

A 20-year old student of the National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT-K) jumped to death from his department building, sparking off a protest by other students who alleged constant nagging by a professor forced him to take his life, the police said.

The students of National Institute Of Technology (NIT), Srinagar today took out a protest march and demanded permanent deployment of the CRPF in the campus and reshuffling of college administration and immediate formation of Student's Council.

The NIT Srinagar today announced a revised schedule of examinations for outstation students who had skipped the tests earlier this month in the wake of trouble following clashes over India's defeat to the West Indies in the T20 World cup on March 31.

Amidst the unrest in NIT Srinagar campus, outstation students have demanded that academic activities in the institute, including the Minors (exams), beginning today, be deferred until normalcy returns.

Around 150 young people who were on their way to Srinagar to express solidarity with the non-local students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) were detained at Lakhanpur and not allowed to enter Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Saturday said the NIT stalemate should end as most of the demands of the protesting students have been accepted.

Students from four local colleges on Saturday blocked the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district.

The Jammu and Kashmir government will hold another meeting with protesting students at NIT Srinagar today after an earlier meeting late last night failed to end the protests and bring students back to their classes.

Faced with severe criticism for a lathicharge on protesting students at Srinagar's National Institute of Technology or NIT earlier this week, officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Police have expressed hurt in strongly worded social media posts.

Fresh protests today rocked the National Institute of Technology or NIT in Srinagar as some outstation students took out a march in the campus to press for their demands including a call to shift the institute out of Kashmir.

Student protesters at Srinagar's National Institute of Technology or NIT boycotted classes on Thursday morning and raised slogans in the campus demanding that the institute be shifted out of the Jammu and Kashmir capital.