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Chitkara University in Punjab suspends classes for a week after student protests over girl’s suicide at campus: Details

OpIndia Staff - 28 September, 2026

Chitkara University has suspended academic classes for a week at its Rajpura campus following intense student protests

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Students protest at Chitkara University in Punjab, say that a girl committed suicide on campus: Here is what we know so far

OpIndia Staff - 27 September, 2026

Hundreds of students protested late at night at Punjab’s Chitkara University, claiming a female student had committed suicide and that the hostel was haunted.

Crime

LPU students protest over rape of female student, block highway: Here is what is happening in Punjab

OpIndia Staff - 27 September, 2026

The growing unrest prompted the police to reach the university campus. Students continued raising slogans and demanding action over the incident.

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Abhijeet Dipke barges into government school for ‘inspection’: How CJP is turning students and schools into political props

Rukma Rathore - 19 August, 2026

The classes faced interruptions as the centre of education turned into a platform for Abhijeet Dipke's political performance.

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Rahul Gandhi asks Hemant Soren to meet protesting students: Why his appeal exposes Congress-backed JMM govt’s brutal crackdown on protesters

Divya Bharti - 17 August, 2026

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has urged Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to meet students protesting over JPSC and JSSC recruitment exam irregularities. The intervention follows heavy police deployment, action against journalists, and the deteriorating health of hunger-striking leader Devendra Nath Mahato.

Opinions

JPSC scam and the national disease called ‘Sarkari Naukri’

Sanghamitra - 14 August, 2026

The JPSC scam is a textbook illustration of how bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption allow the infestation of multilayered networks of exam mafia and shady private firms wrapped like a parasite around the very machinery that is tasked with selecting the officers and staff for running the government.

Opinions

From pellet guns, lathicharge, to media intimidation, everything dubbed wrong during Delhi’s CJP protest becomes ‘normal’ during Jharkhand student protest: The Left-Liberal hypocrisy

Shraddha Pandey - 10 August, 2026

As the student protest intensifies in Jharkhand, the Ranchi Police has said that it will use pellet guns against student protestors in case of “emergency”.

Meet Abhinav Pandey: The vocal ‘activist’ of Jantar Mantar protest missing in intensity over Jharkhand paper leak

Dibakar Dutta - 3 August, 2026

While Abhinav Pandey did talk about the Jharkhand student protest, there was a marked change in intensity. There were no campaigns seeking resignation or pressure on the Hemant Soren government to remove its Education Minister. The overall coverage and the 'call for accountability' was borderline non-existent.

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