Kanhaiya only used the stage ‘set’ for him
By arresting Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar on shaky sedition charges, the ruling BJP provided a stage to Mr. Kumar, which he used with aplomb after being...
View ArticleHope Kanhaiya Kumar proves himself worthy of support he received: Shatrughan...
--> Sinha had come out in support of Kanhaiya earlier saying that he had said nothing that amounted to sedition. Expressing happiness over the release of Kanhaiya Kumar from Tihar prison, Bharatiya...
View ArticleStudent leader urges freedom of speech after arrest, release in India
New Delhi (CNN)A student leader whose arrest last month on sedition charges sparked massive protests in India has vowed to protect free speech in the world's largest democracy as it engages in an...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar to campaign for Left in upcoming assembly polls, claims CPI(M)
CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury. Express Photo By Amit Mehra Claiming that JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar is an activist, leaders of Communist parties today said he will...
View ArticleI am just a soldier in the struggle for truth and justice: Kanhaiya Kumar
--> JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar who seems to have swept his supporters off their feet with his post-release speech, had cultivated quite an interesting network of peers inside Tihar jail where...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar wins praise from non-BJP leaders for ‘azadi’ speech
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday won accolades from non-BJP leaders for his rousing ‘azadi’ speech in which he took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they...
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Kumar also spoke out against attempts to ‘patent’ nationalism and ‘malign’ JNU’s image. Oinam Anand There is a difference between being anti-government and treason, said JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar...
View ArticleAfter Kanhaiya Kumar's speech, Left says will draw him into WB, Kerala campaign
--> A day after his fiery speech at JNU, Kanhaiya Kumar's words reverberated silently in the corridors of Parliament. It was at the back of most minds. Some chose to remain silent, some praised it...
View ArticleWho made Kanhaiya Kumar infamous?
Are we seeing a Students' Spring in India? It sure looks like it. After spending 20 days...
View ArticleYou will not walk alone: Ex- JNU students union presidents support Kanhaiya...
--> While academicians and students across the country came out in support of the protesting JNU students, those who held the post of the JNU students' union president before Kanhaiya, led the...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar emerges a seasoned politician after his ordeal
The lone success of Modi's Make-in-India campaign, quipped a friend. He was talking, of course, about Kanhaiya Kumar, who has emerged from his ordeal of being charged with sedition, beaten up by goons...
View ArticleShatrughan Sinha praises JNU hero Kanhaiya Kumar
-->"Hope, wish and pray that he will prove himself worthy of the support" -- Shatrughan Sinha In an apparent variance with his party's stance over the JNU row, BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha praised...
View ArticleRs 11 lakh for shooting Kanhaiya Kumar: Poster in Delhi offers reward for...
--> The posters in Hindi read, “Whoever shoots JNUSU president and traitor Kanhaiya Kumar will be rewarded Rs 11 lakh from the Poorvanchal Sena.” The after-effects of Kanhaiya Kumar’s epic address...
View ArticleDid you check facts before making the speech: JNU professor Makarand...
--> His speech was interrupted by Kanhaiya and some students booed him. Makarand Paranjape, poet and professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday took on students union president...
View ArticlePolice asks JNU to keep it informed about Kanhaiya’s movement
New Delhi: JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar with the union Vice President Shehla Rashid (L) and Rama Naga (R) who is facing sedition charges, addresses a news conference at the JNU campus in New Delhi on...
View ArticleAnother Kanhaiya Kumar remark sparks controversy, complaint filed
NEW DELHI: A fresh complaint has been lodged against Jawaharlal Nehru students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar for remarks made by him at a student's gathering on women's day. The complaint has been...
View ArticleUnlikely to campaign for WB, Kerala polls, says Kanhaiya Kumar
After an electrifying speech of Kanahaiya at JNU, the CPM General secretary Sitaram Yechury had declared that Kanhaiya would be campaigning for Left parties in the Assembly polls. (PTI Photo) JNU...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar: India's most loved and loathed student
Media captionKanhaiya Kumar spoke to the BBC about his politics Revolution still remains some distance away at Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, but the Indian spring has already arrived...
View ArticleIt’s high time to change India’s sedition laws: HRW
March 14, New Delhi: While on a recent speaking engagement at the University of California, Berkeley, I visited the Free Speech Movement café, homage to the 1960s student protests that changed forever...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar: India 'sedition' student may be expelled
A student leader from a top university in India charged with sedition may be expelled from campus, reports say. Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested last month, after a rally against the execution of a Kashmiri...
View ArticleDelhi HC to hear another sedition plea against Kanhaiya Kumar
NEW DELHI: A petition was filed in the Delhi high court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a sedition charge for saying that the Indian Army is...
View ArticleNow, Kanhaiya Kumar says Kashmir is an integral part of India
NEW DELHI: JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, against whom sedition charges have been slapped for raising "anti-India" slogans, on Friday said Kashmir is an integral part of India and so...
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Kanhaiya Kumar at JNU. (Express Photo: Praveen Khanna) In fresh attack on the NDA government, JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday vowed to wage a “direct fight” against “dictatorship” as he...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar vows to wage battle for scrapping of sedition law
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. Express photo by Ravi Kanojia. JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday vowed to wage a battle for scrapping of the sedition law under which he and two other PhD...
View ArticleJNU row: Kanhaiya Kumar vows to wage battle for scrapping of sedition law
--> Kanhaiya Kumar said all parties and people supporting democracy must come forward to demand abolishing the British-era law. JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday vowed to wage a battle for...
View ArticleLoud and clear, Indian students send message of freedom
- Freedom cries are back in the embattled campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which has been at the centre of a nationalism debate after a few of its students were slapped with sedition...
View ArticleJNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar meets Congress VP Rahul Gandhi
JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. (Express Photo: Praveen Khanna) For the first time since the JNU row began and subsided, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar...
View ArticleUnlikely to campaign for Bengal, Kerala polls, Kanhaiya Kumar says
NEW DELHI: Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who walked out of Tihar on bail last week where he was lodged in a sedition case, has indicated that he is unlikely to...
View ArticleKanhaiya vows to wage battle for scrapping of sedition law
awaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday vowed to wage a battle for scrapping of the sedition law under which he and two other PhD scholars of the university were arrested...
View ArticleIt’s high time to change India’s sedition laws (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) While on a recent speaking engagement at the University of California, Berkeley, I visited the Free Speech Movement café, homage to the 1960s student protests that...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar on sedition and 'freedom' in India
Indian student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who was jailed by authorities on sedition charges, isn't backing down from his criticism of the government following his release on bail from jail. Police in New...
View ArticleHC refuses to cancel Kanhaiya's bail for now
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday declined to cancel the interim bail granted to JNU student union president Kanhaiya Kumar for now. Justice Suresh Kait adjourned the hearing...
View ArticleIt's a direct fight against dictatorship: Kanhaiya Kumar
--> Kanhaiya said that universities all across the country are being attacked and his is a fight against direct dictatorship. In fresh attack on the NDA government, JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar...
View ArticleKanhaiya will not campaign for polls
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar will not campaign in Kerala and West Bengal for the upcoming Assembly polls. CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury has clarified...
View ArticleSuspension of Kanhaiya Kumar cancelled, JNU faculty to see if ABVP finds...
--> Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, who were debarred from performing academic activities ever since the February 9 incident took place on campus, were on Friday informed that they could...
View Article'More Kanhaiyas will come'
New Delhi: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar struck a defiant note on Thursday after he was attacked allegedly by an outsider on the university campus. "They killed Rohith Vemula to suppress the voice of...
View ArticleKanhaiya stance under question
New Delhi: Is Kanhaiya Kumar trying to distance himself from the February 9 event? That's the question that some teachers and students are quietly asking after Kumar, at a conclave held by a media...
View ArticleShoe hurled at JUNSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: A protester hurled at a shoe at JUNSU president Kanhaiya Kumar while he was addressing a press conference in Hyderabad on Thursday, TV channels reported. "Anti-nationals like Kanhaiya should...
View ArticleListen to Kanhaiya
Kanhaiya Kumar, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student union leader, gestures as he addresses a meet inside JNU campus in New Delhi, India, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi When Narendra Modi...
View ArticleAssam polls: Kanhaiya Kumar poster boy for Congress, jail hoardings fill...
GUWAHATI: Kanhaiya Kumar, the leader of All India Students Federation, the student body of the CPI, is the poster boy of Congress' outdoor campaign in...
View ArticleWe want India with both Krishna and Kanhaiya Kumar: Shashi Tharoor
NEW DELHI: Taking a dig at ruling BJP over its stand on the JNU row, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said that nationalism is now decided by whether one can say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' or not. He said...
View ArticleFresh row? BJYM files complaint against Kanhaiya Kumar, JNU prof Nivedita...
--> Bharatiya Janata youth wing filed a complaint against Kanhaiya and JNU professor Nivedita Menon saying they made "anti-national" statements. JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar found...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar calls for greater unity, inclusivity in movement against...
NEW DELHI: "The Left needs unity and a new language to approach the public. We can't establish a movement by shouting only names of men. We must raise slogans with names of women in our movement too....
View ArticleAftermath of JNU incident ABVP conducts seminar for national unity at Panjab...
JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar with the union Vice President Shehla Rashid addresses a news conference at the JNU campus in New Delhi on Friday. (PTI Photo) Condemning the incident at JNU wherein...
View ArticleBetween fiery speech and interviews, friends find a ‘different’ Kanhaiya
JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar addresses a press conference outside the administration block Friday. Oinam Anand In the past 24 hours, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president...
View ArticleDid you check facts before making the speech: JNU prof asks Kanhaiya
Makarand Paranjape, poet and professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University today took on students union president Kanhaiya Kumar who is facing sedition charge, asking him whether he checked his...
View ArticleUnlikely to campaign for West Bengal, Kerala assembly elections: Kanhaiya Kumar
--> Want to tell Venkaiah Naidu what we are doing is activism but what his government is doing is politics, Kanhaiya said. JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who walked out of Tihar on...
View ArticleGovt flared up JNU issue to camouflage Rohith Vemula suicide: Kanhaiya Kumar
--> The government smartly made issues of JNU to keep Rohit Vemula's issue under carpet, said Kanhaiya Kumar. JNU Students Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Wednesday alleged the government flared up...
View ArticleKanhaiya Kumar in a fresh spot over "anti-national" remarks
NEW DELHI: JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar found himself in a spot today over remarks made by him at a student's gathering on women's day with the BJP's youth wing filing a police complaint...
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