Students Agitation

The Bombay High Court came down heavily on Satara police for seeking action against a professor who referred to late activist Govind Pansare's book 'Shivaji Kon Hota' while pacifying agitated students during an event.

Allahabad University students, who have been agitating for 83 days to demand rollback of the fee hike, on Monday gheraoed the varsity's vice-chancellor.

AIIMS paramedical students have withdrawn their agitation and resumed normal work with immediate effect after their demands related to hostel accommodation and other issues were accepted.

Meeting of khaps, farmer unions and student organisations was held to discuss agitation strategy against Agnipath defence recruitment scheme.

Union minister and BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Thursday urged students protesting against the Agnipath scheme to stop their agitation and keep away from those inciting them.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Wednesday said that the university doesn't impose food choices on students and stressed that they can debate and agitate but should not indulge in violence.

Jadavpur University teachers have threatened to boycott the examination process if the institution yields to some agitating engineering students' demand to conduct online examinations.

The students have been agitating for a week now, demanding the reopening of hostels but the vice-chancellor is unresponsive, SFI leader Somnath Sow said.

Railway property worth crores has been damaged and 12 government employees were injured in Bihar during the three-day agitation by students against the changes in railway recruitment rules, sources have said.

The Naga Peoples' Front (NPF), a member of the all party government in Nagaland and Naga Students' Federation (NSF) will hold democratic agitations till the Centre reconsiders its latest extension of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

Junior doctors protesting the delay in college allotments of postgraduate medical students in Delhi said today that they will continue their agitation as talks with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya remained inconclusive.

Agitating students of Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, who have launched a sit-in near the official residence of Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty, on Tuesday allegedly stopped his vehicle when it came out of the quarters.

Students of Visva-Bharti at Santiniketan, who have been staging a sit-in over rustication of three peers for more than a week, began a relay hunger strike on Sunday.

Visva-Bharati students, who had been staging a sit-in protest near the vice-chancellor’s residence over the expulsion of three peers, moved their site of agitation outside the prohibited area.

Confirming that Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty is “under siege” due to the ongoing agitation by a section of students, Visva-Bharati University on Monday temporarily suspended the admission process for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, a notice said.

The Bombay High Court came down heavily on Satara police for seeking action against a professor who referred to late activist Govind Pansare's book 'Shivaji Kon Hota' while pacifying agitated students during an event.

Allahabad University students, who have been agitating for 83 days to demand rollback of the fee hike, on Monday gheraoed the varsity's vice-chancellor.

AIIMS paramedical students have withdrawn their agitation and resumed normal work with immediate effect after their demands related to hostel accommodation and other issues were accepted.

Meeting of khaps, farmer unions and student organisations was held to discuss agitation strategy against Agnipath defence recruitment scheme.

Union minister and BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Choubey on Thursday urged students protesting against the Agnipath scheme to stop their agitation and keep away from those inciting them.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Wednesday said that the university doesn't impose food choices on students and stressed that they can debate and agitate but should not indulge in violence.

Jadavpur University teachers have threatened to boycott the examination process if the institution yields to some agitating engineering students' demand to conduct online examinations.

The students have been agitating for a week now, demanding the reopening of hostels but the vice-chancellor is unresponsive, SFI leader Somnath Sow said.

Railway property worth crores has been damaged and 12 government employees were injured in Bihar during the three-day agitation by students against the changes in railway recruitment rules, sources have said.

The Naga Peoples' Front (NPF), a member of the all party government in Nagaland and Naga Students' Federation (NSF) will hold democratic agitations till the Centre reconsiders its latest extension of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

Junior doctors protesting the delay in college allotments of postgraduate medical students in Delhi said today that they will continue their agitation as talks with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya remained inconclusive.

Agitating students of Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, who have launched a sit-in near the official residence of Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty, on Tuesday allegedly stopped his vehicle when it came out of the quarters.

Students of Visva-Bharti at Santiniketan, who have been staging a sit-in over rustication of three peers for more than a week, began a relay hunger strike on Sunday.

Visva-Bharati students, who had been staging a sit-in protest near the vice-chancellor’s residence over the expulsion of three peers, moved their site of agitation outside the prohibited area.

Confirming that Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty is “under siege” due to the ongoing agitation by a section of students, Visva-Bharati University on Monday temporarily suspended the admission process for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, a notice said.