Many of the students studying at JNU have no financial means other than the scholarship. The fact that so many parents have also lost their jobs due to the pandemic worsens the condition.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has reported its case of coronavirus after a pharmacist in the varsity tested positive for the deadly disease. Following this development, university administration contact tracing of all who had come in the contact of the pharmacist are being traced and informed to remain vigilant and get tested for the noval disease.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday strongly advised students stranded in its hostels to return to their native places as special trains and some intra-state bus services have become operational following relaxations in COVID-19 lockdown norms.
JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar said the academic calendar has been unanimously approved by all the deans of Schools and Chairpersons of Special Centres.
Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said: "The Director General of National Testing Agency has been advised to postpone the last date for submission of applications for various examinations".
The students' union had requested the varsity administration to extend the deadline in view of the national lockdown imposed by the Centre to arrest the spread of the deadly disease.
Coronavirus outbreak: The JNU administration said all evaluation/examination/class presentation activities had been postponed till March 31. The deadlines of thesis submissions of all research scholars will be extended appropriately.
All lectures, class presentations and examinations at JNU are suspended till 31st March, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Registrar informed on Friday. It said that conducting any event, such as seminars, conferences and workshops, in the campus during this period should be postponed due to coronavirus pandemic.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Saturday said the university pensioners will get the payment for February by next week, days after it said it will not be able to give the money as the University Grants Commission (UGC) has not given the funds.
A video of ex-JNU student Umar Khalid, who was among those who raised 'tukde-tukde' slogans inside the university campus in 2016, has been heard making provocative statements saying they will be on the roads when Trump will visit India to convey a message present government is dividing the nation.
While speaking to ANI in the national capital on February 29, the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Jagadesh Kumar spoke about JNU warning students' body against providing shelter to Delhi violence victims on campus.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday hit out at the Delhi government for its sanction to prosecute former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in connection with a sedition case, saying the Kejriwal dispensation is "no less ill-informed than the Centre" in its understanding of the sedition law.
The JNU administration on Friday warned the university's students' union against providing shelter to the victims of the northeast Delhi violence on the campus.
Anti national slogans were raise in the JNU campus on February 9, 2016. Four days later Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested by Delhi Police under sedition charges.
Former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar demanded a speedy trial against him. This, he said, will bring out how sedition law was being "misused". Delhi state government on Friday gave green signal to Delhi Police to prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar in JNU sedition case.
Delhi government on Friday sanctioned the Delhi Police Special Cell to probe allegations of sedition against former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
A new hostel will soon come up at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for the students belonging to the Northeast besides a regional convention centre in Delhi, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday.
Hours after the BJP criticised the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) dispensation over the law and order situation, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray hit back at the party saying that those targeting his government should first see what is happening under their watch.
Sharjeel Imam, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student arrested last month for his “cut-off Assam” remark was brought to Guwahati on Thursday by the Assam Police.
A Delhi Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi government to file a status report relating to the issue of pendency of sanction in the JNU sedition case to prosecute student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and others.
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