Suranjan Das

Jadavpur University sit-in: West Bengal Governor, VC urge students to call off hunger strike

West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, who is also Chancellor of the Jadavpur University (JU), on Monday expressed concern over the health of the students, who had been observing hunger strike over the past three days in protest against the institute's new admission procedure.

Jadavpur University scraps entrance test in six humanities subjects; teachers, students to continue protests

The Jadavpur University authorities on Wednesday decided to scrap the entrance test procedure to undergraduate courses in six humanities subjects and admit students on the basis of marks obtained in board examinations.

Jadavpur University students continue agitations against State Assembly bill to make unions 'apolitical'

Agitating students were demanding that the Jadavpur University EC adopt a resolution describing the government’s step as "undemocratic" and "unacceptable"

JU fracas over Agnihotri's film: Left's most blatant display of intellectual tyranny

JU incident is also a manifestation of the turf war that is taking place right now between the Right, which has political power but lacks the intellectual heft and Left, which shall not cede an inch of space.