Nit Srinagar Protest

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.

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 visiting central team will resolve the problems faced by students protesting in the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Jammu and Kashmir soon, Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria said in Agartala today.

In a packed hall at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, a student representative today told visiting officials from the Centre's education ministry that they want the institute shifted out of Srinagar and want action taken against policemen who lathicharged student protesters late on Tuesday evening.

Union Education Minister Smriti Irani has assured students that examinations will be conducted in a "secure environment" at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, where student protesters were lathicharged by the police during clashes on Tuesday evening.

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.

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 visiting central team will resolve the problems faced by students protesting in the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Jammu and Kashmir soon, Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria said in Agartala today.

In a packed hall at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, a student representative today told visiting officials from the Centre's education ministry that they want the institute shifted out of Srinagar and want action taken against policemen who lathicharged student protesters late on Tuesday evening.

Union Education Minister Smriti Irani has assured students that examinations will be conducted in a "secure environment" at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar, where student protesters were lathicharged by the police during clashes on Tuesday evening.