Citizens for Justice and Peace
http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/jnu-faculty-divided-over-boycott-classes-505
17-Feb-2016
JNU faculty divided over boycott of classes Feb 17, 2016 – SHASHI BHUSHAN | • New Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru University’s ongoing protest against the arrest of students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar has not only divided political parties, but also caused a rift among some 700 JNU faculty members. One group of teachers, led by the…
http://www.asianage.com/india/jnu-controversy-lawyer-disrupts-sc-proceedings-chants-vande-mataram-661
17-Feb-2016
JNU controversy: Lawyer disrupts SC proceedings, chants ‘Vande Mataram’ Feb 17, 2016 | • Age Correspondent | • New Delhi After the incident, SC limited the number of people to be allowed inside the courtroom for hearing. The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the number of people present in the courtroom as a lawyer tried…
NBA condemns Delhi assault on journos
17-Feb-2016
Feb 17 2016 : Mirror (Mumbai) The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) condemned the assault by lawyers and others on journalists and cameramen, especially women journalists, who were reporting from the Patiala House Court on Monday. The incident happened when the president of the JNU Students Union, Kanaiya Kumar, was being produced in the court on…
Shah Rukh collects degree, ABVP activists protest
17-Feb-2016
Feb 17 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) New Delhi: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Shah Rukh Khan received his graduation degree on Tuesday, 28 years after passing out from Hansraj College. Walking down the memory lane, the Bollywood star said, “This is a very special mo ment for me. I am back in my college…
Vicious assault on Kanhaiya
17-Feb-2016
Imran Ahmed Siddiqui New Delhi, Feb. 17: Kanhaiya Kumar was kicked and punched so viciously inside a court complex today afternoon that what appeared to be urine stained the young man’s trousers. Half an hour later, the JNU students’ union president, arrested on a sedition charge, was beaten up again – this time in a…
JNU Row: No question of clean chit to Kanhaiya, says Bassi
17-Feb-2016
Shubhomoy Sikdar New Delhi, February 17, 2016 The Police Commissioner said that they, in fact, had evidence against the JNUSU president on the basis of which he was arrested. Dismissing media reports on a Delhi Police internal report not mentioning Kanhaiya Kumar as raising anti-India slogans, Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Wednesday said those…
Mahishasura & beef claims in cop report
16-Feb-2016
Imran Ahmed Siddiqui New Delhi, Feb. 16: Delhi police have cited “beef eating” and worship of “Mahishasura” by some far-Left student organisations at JNU to bolster their charge that they were involved in “anti-national” activities in the university. The claim came in a status report to the Union home ministry in connection with the activities…
Lawyers thrash JNU students, teachers and journalists
16-Feb-2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 NEW DELHI: Violence broke out in Patiala House court complex when groups of lawyers on Monday attacked journalists, students and teachers of JNU and unidentified people in and outside the court dubbing them as anti-nationals in the wake of a raging row over the arrest of a student leader of the…
JNU teachers join strike, to take ‘nationalism’ classes
16-Feb-2016
New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI): Jawaharlal Nehru University teachers joined the students in boycotting classes on Tuesday in protest against arrest of its student union leader in a sedition case and said they would take classes on “nationalism” in the varsity lawns. The students on Monday had gone on an indefinite strike till JNU Students’…
Lawyers beat up scribes, students in Delhi court
16-Feb-2016
JNU issue takes violent turn inside Patiala House | Two dna journos threatened Azaan Javaid @AzaanJavaid New Delhi: Journalists, senior faculty members and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, along with other political activists, were on Monday threatened, attacked and beaten up inside the Patiala House Courts, where JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was being produced.…