Rowdyism and violence have no place in centres of learning. Indian universities, unfortunately, have been witness to such excesses in campuses, time and again. Political animosities have, more often t...

JNU is seeking tuition fees from end-year PhD students for the extra semester they have been granted to finalise and submit their theses, a process halted by the pandemic-induced closure of universiti...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned by two weeks the hearing of JNU student Sharjeel Imam’s appeal for consolidation of multiple FIRs registered against him in various states for alleged se...

Dissent is being silenced and dissenters are being sent to prison. Writers and academics are being treated as criminals for refusing to toe the line of those in power. Samik Bandyopadhyay, academic, l...

Teachers, students and alumni from JNU and Delhi University have condemned the “cruel persecution” of Rakesh Ranjan, an assistant professor of economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce, by...

Hundreds of research scholars at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Millia Islamia have not been getting their fellowship for at least four months now during the pandemic because the institut...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has allowed schools to include deleted chapters in internal assessments if they have already been taught, while standing by the Covid-linked syllabus pr...

Over 500 academics have publicly declared that the Central Board of Secondary Education’s decision to delete the chapters on federalism, secularism, democratic rights, caste and nationalism from...

Talents born and nurtured in Bengal have been flocking to Mumbai and Bangalore to advance their careers. It's time to end this long history, Bikash Sinha, Homi Bhabha Professor at the department o...

Jawaharlal Nehru University has made sweeping curriculum changes, including the introduction of an Ayurveda Biology course due to be offered by its Sanskrit school. The changes were cleared at a meeti...