Students on hunger strike in India demand restoration of student union
Students at New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia university are on hunger strike demanding the restoration of their student union, which has been banned since 2006. They accuse university authorities and the police of restricting their movement and blocking access to basic supplies.
Authorities estimate some 500,000 to 700,000 people will protest across the country on Thursday, while as many as 80,000 people are expected to march from 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) in the capital Paris. Similar protests have sparked in other European countries in recent weeks with youth-led demonstrations seen in Denmark, Germany and Italy.
The Delhi High Court issued notices to the Centre, CBSE, NCERT and PARAKH on a PIL seeking to extend the calculator facility, now available only to students with Dyscalculia, to students with other disabilities in Class 12 mathematics and accountancy papers
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has also dismissed the strike threat issued by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Abuja chapter, over the administration’s reallocation of portions of the institution’s land to private developers and government agencies. The confrontation followed a recent press conference by ASUU UniAbuja Chairman, Dr. Sylvanus Ugoh, who warned that the union could no longer guarantee industrial harmony on campus if the FCT Minister failed to reverse allocations made out of the institution’s designated land parcel in the…
With the introduction of the on-demand examination system, students will no longer have to wait for the university to announce the supplementary examination schedule
