student protest

Students are demanding immediate government intervention and reform in the examination, on which lakhs of young aspirants coming from the lower middle class and middle class pin their hopes.

This reportedly comes after some students at Osmania University protested recently after a razor blade was allegedly found in a curry served for dinner at the New Godavari hostel mess.

A massive agitation was initiated by student organisations of the Left and the TMC on 5th March after the SFI and ultra-left Naxal outfits disrupted an event of the West Bengal College & University Professors Association (WBCUPA), an organisation of pro-Trinamool professors leaving the state education minister Basu and several professors injured.

Several videos of KIIT authorities threatening Nepali students to leave the campus surfaced on social media on 17th February. In one such video, the varsity authorities are seen telling students “Pack your bags and leave” the campus. In her bid to defend the varsity’s founder, one of the KIIT officials went on to brag about how the founder feeds 40,000 students for free. 

Concerned over the lack of security and the insensitive behaviour of the hostel warden, other students came out in support of the victim and launched a sit-in protest at the NIT Trichy campus.

TISS designated Progressive Students Forum as an "unauthorised and illegal forum" on its campus and accused them of misleading students, obstructing the functioning of the institute, creating division among the students and faculty and defaming the institute.

A major turning point in the anti-Mandal agitation came on 19th September 1990 when a student named Rajeev Goswami set himself on fire in protest.

The protesters had stormed and occupied a building on Columbia University's main campus overnight, flying a Palestinian flag from Hamilton Hall.