Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit chosen as JNU's first female Vice Chancellor
Pandit, who is 59 years old, completed her MPhil and PhD in International Relations from JNU
Pandit, who is 59 years old, completed her MPhil and PhD in International Relations from JNU
The decision was taken at the university’s Academic Council meeting and an announcement was made by the deemed university late last evening, 12 January.
<p>Raids are being conducted in Mumbai, Patna and Delhi to arrest research scholar Sharjeel Imam who has been booked in sedition cases lodged across several states for his alleged “inflammatory” speeches made during a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, police said on Monday. Five teams of the Crime Branch have been deployed to locate […]</p>
<p>Union minister Smriti Irani has reacted to actor Deepika Padukone visiting the JNU campus in support of protesting students on Tuesday night. Speaking at an event in Chennai on Thursday, Irani said the actor had ‘made her political affiliation known in 2011 that she supports the Congress party’. The Union minister was referring to an […]</p>
<p>Amid criticism over top Bollywood celebrities maintaining silence over the violence in JNU, Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone joined the protesting students at the JNU’s Sabarmati hostel. According to reports, Deepika visited JNU around 7:45 pm and stayed on campus for about 10 minutes. The actor left without saying anything, however, she was photographed meeting JNU […]</p>
<p>Thousands across the country registered their protest after a masked mob attacked students and teachers and vandalised hostels in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday. Youngsters, mostly students from different colleges in Mumbai, assembled on the pavement across the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel near the Gateway of India to criticize the violence in […]</p>
<p>The Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday said it will implement the new hostel manual from Wednesday, with its Vice-Chancellor appealing to the students to call off their strike. After a meeting of all the three Rectors, the university’s Registrar, the Deans of Schools and Chairpersons of the Special Centres, a circular was also issued urging […]</p>
<p>Tight security arrangements were made at Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy (JNU) campus with hundred of troops deployed outside ahead of the JNSU’s protest march to Parliament on the first day of winter session. The Jawaharlal Nehru Student’s Union (JNUSU) has said it will take out a march to Parliament to protest against the hostel fee hike […]</p>
<p>Objectionable messages were written on the Swami Vivekananda Statue inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While there is no clarity on who defaced the statue, it is clear that the messages were directed at the BJP and its associates. The statue is situated on the right side of […]</p>