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Mohd. Imran Khan
No Salary for Striking Period to Contractual School Teachers Suffering Amid lockdown
08 Apr 2020
“The government should take a humanitarian view to pay the teachers’ salaries.”
Ravi Kaushal
‘Never Felt This Insecure on Campus,’ Says Female JNU Student after Encounter with Drunk Guard
04 Apr 2020
‘Cyclops claims that it is run by Ex Servicemen. Now, these men are misbehaving with us. I wish to ask our Vice Chancellor, who is responsible for our security?’
Sumedha Pal
COVID-19: Delhi University Students Claim ‘No Entry’ in Hostel
01 Apr 2020
Students feel stranded as they cannot return home or afford accommodation charges elsewhere.
Ravi Kaushal
Delhi Govt Releases Much Awaited Grant for Salaries in DU, Colleges Term it Insufficient
27 Mar 2020
The grant will only cover the pending salaries of two months, but the reimbursements and arrears due to employees according to the 7th Pay Revision cannot be covered by this grant, allege the college…
Tarushikha Sarvesh, Abdul Hafiz Gandhi
Build Quarantine Centres Anywhere, Not in Universities
20 Mar 2020
India can consider universities as a site of incubation of Covid-19, but they must be a last resort—not the very first.
Sagrika Kissu
Jammu: Fee Fixation Committee Stands Defunct Amid another Steep Hike in Private School Fees
16 Mar 2020
The FFC became non-functional after the completion of the earlier Chairman’s two-year term on July 28, 2019. It has been nine months and the administration has not appointed a new Chairman as yet.
Ravi Kaushal
Submissive Citizens in Making: DU Hostels Impose Strict Curfew Times, Residents on Strike
09 Mar 2020
The residents of girls’ hostels, who have been on strike for 11 days, alleged that the rules of the hostels have been drafted in a manner that penalises them for realising their dreams and even…
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Universities are Spaces for Free Thinking: Romila Thapar
07 Mar 2020
Romila Thapar explains that Institutions like Universities emerge from a new relationship between the state and citizen, where no one has to be subservient to the other.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
West Bengal: 1,200 Shiksha Mitras Denied Pay for Six Years
29 Feb 2020
In 2004, there were 1,800 shiksha mitras in the state. However, over the last decade, the number of centres of has decreased, and so has the number of shiksha mitras. Most of them are now too old to…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
2 Months After Withdrawal of Hunger Strike, Bengal Para-Teachers Still in Limbo
28 Feb 2020
Para-teachers threaten ‘larger’ action, say despite written assurances and two meetings, the state government has not moved an inch.