The JNU on Monday slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and rusticated three others for varying durations over their alleged role in the controversial 9 February event for which they were charged with sedition, an action which had sparked outrage and triggered protests. Based on the findings of a high-level […]
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JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Sunday predicted a “social revolution” in the country when hunger and deprivation will unite the masses irrespective of their caste, creed or religion. Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second consecutive day during his two-day visit to Maharashtra, Kanhaiya Kumar said the Bharatiya Janata Party was attempting to
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Delhi Police officials have arrested two persons in connection with placing of pistol and cartridges in a bus routed through JNU last week. One of the two arrested persons is brother of Amit Jani, who has threatened to behead Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid. Amit Jani’s brother Saurabh Aggarwal has told police that the plot
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News about JNU protests was all over the internet about a month ago. Just when we thought the whole issue was fading into thin air, Yatra.com, brought it alive in their latest ad. The commercial features a Kanhaiya Kumar lookalike delivering a passionate speech where he demands for ‘Azadi’ to choose a window seat in
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A protester hurled a shoe at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar while he was addressing a press conference in Hyderabad on Thursday. “Anti-nationals like Kanhaiya should not be allowed to speak,” the protester shouted before the police took him away. Continuing with his speech, Kanhaiya said that such incidents do not matter
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Kanhaiya Kumar, the student who was arrested on sedition charges, is scheduled to arrive tomorrow at the Hyderabad university where Dalit student Rohith Vemula killed himself after alleging caste discrimination. Mr Kumar, 28, will meet students who say that Mr Vemula was driven to suicide by university officials who suspended him and his friends in
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Jawaharlal Nehru University student’s union president Kanhaiya Kumar met Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, days after the Congress vice-president attacked the government over a sedition row at the university. Kanhaiya met Gandhi along with delegations from the JNUSU and the All India Students’ Federation (AISF). Kanhaiya was booked and arrested on a charge of involvement in
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified today that he had not intended to equate Kanhaiya Kumar, the student recently arrested on charges of sedition at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. “It was a girl in the audience (at JNU) who mentioned Bhagat Singh, and I said that Bhagat Singh was a
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Taking a dig at ruling BJP over its stand on the JNU row, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said nationalism is now decided by whether one can say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ or not. He said people should have the right to choose what they believe is correct and still be tolerant of others’
JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were released from jail after they were granted interim bail on Friday. Both the JNU students arrested in a sedition case almost a month ago, were granted bail for six months by a Delhi court. Students at JNU cheered the duo’s release even as actor Anupam Kher, who
A judge, who was hearing the petitions for cancellation of interim bail of JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar, today referred it to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court for allocating it before another bench after objection was raised by one of the petitioners to the warning that they may have to bear the cost
The JNU students who were served show-cause notices to explain their role in the controversial February 9 event, have decided to “not accept” the university probe panel’s report and have said it’s unfair. The decision was taken late Wednesday night after a JNU Students’ Council meeting. “The inquiry report is based on an unfair probe
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Provocative slogans like ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ were raised at controversial JNU event by a group of masked outsiders, a high-level inquiry committee of the varsity has said. However, the report about the JNU case said video footages of the February 9 event does not show anyone raising the slogan “Bharat Ki Barbadi tak jung rahegi” (Fight
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A fresh poster issuing death threats to JNU student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who are facing charge of sedition, reportedly appeared on Friday, days after a similar poster announced a reward of Rs 11 lakh on Kumar which landed a youth in jail. An image of the poster was circulated on
JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is out on bail in a sedition case, is facing ire of the BJP’s youth wing for his remarks on the security forces in Kashmir. Speaking on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act or AFSPA, Kanhaiya said, “No matter how much you try to stop us, we will
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met his match in Kanhaiya Kumar, noted writer Nayantara Sahgal today said as she praised the JNUSU president for his speech at JNU after his release from jail and his subsequent “rational” interviews to the media. “Kanhaiya Kumar has electrified India with not only his speech in which much passion
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Jawaharlal Nehru University professor Makarand Paranjape, Monday, took on Kanhaiya Kumar for quoting wrong facts, while delivering his speech at the campus after being released from Tihar Jail last week. Paranjape, poet and professor of English at JNU, made the comments while speaking at 15th edition of the speak-in at JNU: “India’s Uncivil Wars. Tagore,
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Posters offering a reward of Rs 11 lakh to anyone who shoots dead JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was released on bail two days ago, have surfaced in the national capital. The small posters bear the name of the Purvanchal Sena, an organisation which claims to work for the people of Uttar Pradesh and
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A day after he became the first major leader to call Kanhaiya Kumar’s speech “brilliant”, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal went a step further as he appropriated the slogans raised in JNU to make a case against the Centre’s alleged interventions in the working of the Aam Aadmi Party government. “Hum kya maangte, azadi. LG
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He was put in prison for 21 days. He was beaten up by goons dressed as lawyers at the Patiala House court premises in New Delhi. He was vehemently criticised by certain sections of the media over a video in which he was shown shouting anti-national slogans — it later turned out to be a
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday night said they never demanded freedom from India — “We demanded freedom within India,” he said while addressing a gathering of thousands of students on the campus after spending days in Tihar jail on sedition charges. “We never demanded azadi (freedom) from India. We want
The conditional bail for JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar may have been a minor victory for students demanding his release, but the content of the order of Justice Pratibha Rani delivers them a sobering message. The bail comes with several conditions, directives to JNU faculty and some serious observations on the exercise of freedom
The Delhi High court today reserved its verdict on the bail plea of JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who refuted the allegation of police that he was raising anti-India slogans at an event on 9 February at the campus. Justice Pratibha Rani, before whom the Delhi Police claimed that they have witnesses who have
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Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi today came out in support of students who took out a march in Delhi to demand justice for Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad research scholar who committed suicide last month, and Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU student arrested for sedition. Rohit Vemula’s family is also present at the “Chalo Dilli” protest. “The
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Family members of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is facing a sedition case, asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “break silence” over the row, saying “a lot was expected” from him. Expressing concern over the attack on Kanhaiya at Patiala House Courts, roles played by a section of lawyers, media
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JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar will spend at least three more nights in Tihar Jail as his petition for release is expected to be heard by Delhi High Court only next week. Day-long attempts by his legal team, which began with the Supreme Court refusing to take up the plea, couldn’t ensure a hearing
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Sedition charges are the flavour of the month. In India, a ‘strong’ government with a solid majority has charged young Kanhaiya Kumar of threatening the country’s security by joining hands with the likes of Hafiz Saeed, on the basis of a fake Twitter handle, and has slapped sedition charges against him. Neighbouring Bangladesh, has gone
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JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday took the unusual step of filing a writ petition in Supreme Court seeking bail, saying violence unleashed by a section of lawyers in the Patiala House Courts complex had disrupted the justice delivery mechanism and posed a grave threat to his life. The petition will be heard on Friday.
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The sedition case against Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar appears to be an afterthought, relying mostly on a TV report. When the station house officer (SHO) of a nearby police station visited the JNU campus on February 9, he saw students at an evening rally commemorating the anniversary of the execution of 2001
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