Pune Film Institute Row

After his visit to Nagpur, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar will next week meet the students of FTII here who had protested against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the chairman of the institute.

Disgruntled BJP lawmaker Shatrughan Sinha has said that he had been willing to accept the post of 'interim chairman' of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) here and that he had also requested the current chairman Gajendra Chauhan to step down to end the stalemate with protesting students.

Agitating students of FTII today held one more round of talks with the government but there were no indications of an immediate end to the four-month-old deadlock over appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as its Chairman.

A key meeting will be held today between the government and the agitating FTII students in a fresh bid to end the four-month-long strike at the Pune-based institute.

The Bombay High Court today issued notice to the Union I&B and Home ministries, the Maharashtra government and student leader of FTII on a PIL seeking to put an end to the ongoing strike at the Pune-based film institute.

The agitating students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) are not averse to the Information and Broadcasting secretary assuming the post of chairman till a transparent mechanism to select the institute's governing body is evolved, sources on the campus have said.

With FTII students sticking to their demand for removal of TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as the institute's chairman, a second round of talks in Mumbai today between the striking students and I & B Ministry officials failed to break the deadlock but the two sides agreed to meet again in New Delhi on October 6.

A day before protesting students of Film and Television Institute of India are expected to meet the government, they have released a strongly-worded letter signed by 200 American intellectuals, backing their stir and criticizing the Centre.

The agitating students of the Film and Television Institute of India today said they would withdraw their hunger strike to pave way for a dialogue with the government if the Information and Broadcasting ministry confirmed a date for talks to resolve their demands, including removal of actor Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of the institute.

A third student of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), who was on a relay hunger strike, was taken to a hospital on Sunday after his sugar levels dropped, even as protests against appointment of actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as institution's chairman continued.

Three students at the Pune Film and Television Institute of India have launched a hunger strike to demand the removal of BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as Chairman of the premier film school.

The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a PIL seeking its intervention to end the ongoing stir at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) opposing the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as Chairman.

A national institute for film, television and animation will be set up in Arunchal Pradesh, the Centre announced today even as it continued to battle controversy over its appointment of the chief of Pune's Film and Television Institute of India.

A three-member team of central officials are expected to hold talks with students of Film and Television Institute of India in Pune today, who are demanding the removal of TV actor and BJP member Ganjendra Chauhan as its chairman.

Five students of Pune's prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) were arrested from campus after midnight on Tuesday and a dozen more were charged in an escalation of a two-month long row over the Centre's choice of the institute's chief.

After his visit to Nagpur, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar will next week meet the students of FTII here who had protested against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the chairman of the institute.

Disgruntled BJP lawmaker Shatrughan Sinha has said that he had been willing to accept the post of 'interim chairman' of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) here and that he had also requested the current chairman Gajendra Chauhan to step down to end the stalemate with protesting students.

Agitating students of FTII today held one more round of talks with the government but there were no indications of an immediate end to the four-month-old deadlock over appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as its Chairman.

A key meeting will be held today between the government and the agitating FTII students in a fresh bid to end the four-month-long strike at the Pune-based institute.

The Bombay High Court today issued notice to the Union I&B and Home ministries, the Maharashtra government and student leader of FTII on a PIL seeking to put an end to the ongoing strike at the Pune-based film institute.

The agitating students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) are not averse to the Information and Broadcasting secretary assuming the post of chairman till a transparent mechanism to select the institute's governing body is evolved, sources on the campus have said.

With FTII students sticking to their demand for removal of TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as the institute's chairman, a second round of talks in Mumbai today between the striking students and I & B Ministry officials failed to break the deadlock but the two sides agreed to meet again in New Delhi on October 6.

A day before protesting students of Film and Television Institute of India are expected to meet the government, they have released a strongly-worded letter signed by 200 American intellectuals, backing their stir and criticizing the Centre.

The agitating students of the Film and Television Institute of India today said they would withdraw their hunger strike to pave way for a dialogue with the government if the Information and Broadcasting ministry confirmed a date for talks to resolve their demands, including removal of actor Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of the institute.

A third student of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), who was on a relay hunger strike, was taken to a hospital on Sunday after his sugar levels dropped, even as protests against appointment of actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as institution's chairman continued.

Three students at the Pune Film and Television Institute of India have launched a hunger strike to demand the removal of BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as Chairman of the premier film school.

The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a PIL seeking its intervention to end the ongoing stir at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) opposing the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as Chairman.

A national institute for film, television and animation will be set up in Arunchal Pradesh, the Centre announced today even as it continued to battle controversy over its appointment of the chief of Pune's Film and Television Institute of India.

A three-member team of central officials are expected to hold talks with students of Film and Television Institute of India in Pune today, who are demanding the removal of TV actor and BJP member Ganjendra Chauhan as its chairman.

Five students of Pune's prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) were arrested from campus after midnight on Tuesday and a dozen more were charged in an escalation of a two-month long row over the Centre's choice of the institute's chief.