PM Narendra Modi today attended the closing ceremony of the Delhi University’s (DU) centenary celebrations as the chief guest. Many colleges affiliated to DU like Hindu College, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College and Zakir Husain Delhi College have made it compulsory for students and faculty to attend the live telecast of the event. No black […]
Groundxero | News Report August, 19th, 2021 On 16 August, 2021, Dr. Neelam, a Schedule Caste (Dalit) professor, in the Hindi department at Delhi University’s Lakshmibai College, was slapped publicly in front of her colleague by Dr. Ranjeet Kaur — the teacher-in-charge — for not signing on the minutes of a meeting. Dr. […]
The services of twelve ad-hoc assistant professors working for several years in a college affiliated to Delhi University were suddenly discontinued earlier this month putting them in a precarious position amidst the raging pandemic. The report was initially published in Workers Unity. Even as the second wave of Coronavirus epidemic exploded in Delhi, affecting […]
The English Department of Delhi University has written an open letter to the University after its plan to conduct the end semester exam of its final year students from 1st July. The university’s proposed online Open Book Examination (OBE) format and the haste to execute it against all opposition reflect poorly on the approach to […]
“Female students are in a state of trauma,” Mehreen Shah, a student of Gargi College told GroundXero while describing the recent incident of mass molestation and abuse at the college on February 6, during its annual festival Reverie 2020. A report by Utsa Sarmin. “The fact that an atmosphere is being created where students are […]
Since 1st May safai karamcharis in Delhi University have been fighting for their right to dignified employment, braving the Delhi heat while dealing with the more urgent issue of keeping their families fed without employment. The promise of a democratic, independent nation that upholds human rights and the dignity of labour continues to remain unfulfilled […]
Rajveer Kaur, an MPhil student at the Department of Punjabi at Delhi University, along with her friends and comrades at bSCEM (Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch), a student organization based in Delhi and the surrounding area, had brought out a wall-magazine with articles on Bhagat Singh and the poems of Paash, the left-revolutionary Punjabi poet. […]
Saare pinjron ko todenge, Itihaas ki dhara modenge. #pinjratod Pinjra Tod is an autonomous women’s collective that started in Delhi, which, amongst other things, fights for affordable, non-restrictive and non discriminatory accommodation, aiming to change the face of the public university, as such, through these questions! GroundXero interviewed two members of Pinjra Tod at Jamia […]