‘Let them go to court’: Left Unity celebrates after trouncing ABVP 4-0 in JNU polls

All four key posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union polls went to the Left Unity with comprehensive margins.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Sep 16, 2018 · 08:45 pm

JNU Students’ Union polls: Left unity wins all four seats

N Sai Balaji was elected president with 2,161 votes while Sarika Chaudhary won the post of vice president with 2,692 votes.

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· Sep 16, 2018 · 10:37 am

Rajasthan student union polls: ABVP wins three of seven major universities, NSUI wins one

Independent candidates won the top post in student unions of three of the main universities.

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· Sep 12, 2018 · 02:35 pm

Panjab University students’ council gets its first woman president

Leftist party Students for Society candidate Kanupriya defeated her rival from the the ABVP by 719 votes.

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· Sep 07, 2018 · 10:58 am

Campus activism: IIT students across India are demanding a bigger say in decision making

Given their close ties with the corporate world, the premier engineering instiutions have traditionally been wary of students politics. That could be changing.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Feb 12, 2018 · 09:00 am

Shifting ground: Why the ABVP is losing students union elections at major universities

Its rivals are closing ranks and running campaigns around ‘constructive agendas’.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Oct 17, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Alliance for Social Justice sweeps students’ union election at University of Hyderabad

The election commission has not yet announced the results officially after students protested against the disqualification of the vice president-elect.

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· Sep 22, 2017 · 10:45 pm

Did Allahabad University cancel an event for fear that it was like ‘anti-national’ programme in JNU?

Permission was withdrawn for a programme called Jashn-e-Samvidhaan, or celebration of the Constitution, after Hindutva groups protested.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Sep 19, 2017 · 07:30 am

Left alliance beats ABVP to win JNU student elections, Bapsa comes third

United Left candidate Geeta Kumari won the president’s post by defeating the ABVP’s Nidhi Tripathi by 464 votes.

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· Sep 10, 2017 · 08:11 am

Muzzling campus politics: Student activists in Bengal, Telangana protest new rules, restrictions

Bengal to introduce teachers in student unions under new policy. Osmania University has banned political meetings on campus.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Jun 11, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Lessons in dissent: How students on campuses have shaped politics in Kashmir over the decades

Since April, the Valley has seen a new wave of student protests. But it is not organised like the movements that went before.

Rayan Naqash

· Jun 05, 2017 · 09:00 am

Objections to JNU's Shehla Rashid prompt Aligarh Muslim University students to postpone event

Some students were offended by a January 9 Facebook post on hate-speech and accused her of blasphemy against the Prophet

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Feb 17, 2017 · 12:30 pm