‘Every university has a lunatic fringe… left, right, centre… But they cannot define its identity’: JNU VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit

‘Every university has a lunatic fringe… left, right, centre… But they cannot define its identity’: JNU VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit

JNU VC Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on why she is agonised by its anti-national image, the problems of standardising the admission process and what makes JNU India’s premier academic institution. The session was moderated by Sukrita Baruah, senior correspondent Sukrita Baruah: Would you like to begin with a few opening remarks? Jawaharlal Nehru University, by all […]

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JNU hostel, water issues: ABVP activists stage protest, demand answers from rector

JNU hostel, water issues: ABVP activists stage protest, demand answers from rector

RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists on Thursday accosted JNU Rector rector Ajay Kumar Dubey in the university and demanded answers on the dilapidated conditions of hostels and water crisis on the campus. ABVP activists said Dubey’s “callous and non-serious attitude” regarding problems faced by the JNU students community is a clear manifestation of […]

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CUET delay: JNU teachers’ demands restoration of university’s own admission procedure

CUET delay: JNU teachers’ demands restoration of university’s own admission procedure

After Delhi University officials informing that the admissions process will be delayed, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association (JNUTA) today expressed concerns over the delay in admissions and demanded that the institution restore its time-tested admission procedure instead of relying on the National Testing Agency. This comes amid the rescheduling of the Common University Entrance […]

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JNU hostel, water issues: ABVP activists stage protest, demand answers from rector

JNU to resume offline classes for all courses from August 3

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) will resume in-person classes for students of all courses from the next month, according to an official notification issued on Wednesday. “It has been decided to start classes in offline mode in the University by 3rd of August,2022. All the students are hereby required to attend the offline classes from […]

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JNU to bring back deprivation point model for PhD students: VC Santishree

JNU to bring back deprivation point model for PhD students: VC Santishree

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is planning to bring back the most unique feature of its admission policy – the deprivation point model — for PhD students, Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit has said. The university had devised a deprivation point model to help students from backward regions, especially women, take admission. It was discontinued […]

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