New Delhi Jan 21 PTI Women and student activists Friday staged protests to demand the arrest of the accused in the alleged molestation case on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus earlier this weekActivists from All India Democratic Womens Association Democratic Youth Federation of India and Students Federation of India protested in front of the Delhi Police Headquarters against alleged police inaction in the matterThe alleged incident happened On January 17 near the VC House when a man riding on a motorcycle tried to drag a female student when she was walking in the VC road towards the forest and attempted to rape her Such incidents being reported and casually handled by the police must be condemned the protesters said in a statementLater in the day the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union took out a march from the university campus to Vasant Kunj police station to demand the arrest of the accused PTI SLB TIR TIR

New Delhi Dec 29 PTI The left-affiliated All India Students Association held a protest at the UGC headquarters against the alleged UGC-NET Hindi paper leak in KurukshetraAISA activists and students gathered at the headquarters raising slogans for an immediate repeal of the National Testing Agencys tender on examinationsIn a memorandum submitted to the Additional Secretary of UGC they said All India Students Association would like to stress the demand for an independent enquiry into the recent trend of paper leaks in general and the Hindi UGC NET paper that was leaked in KurukshetraThe UGC NET examination that is being conducted by the private and autonomous NTA must be conducted by UGC once again under full answerability to the public The examination of NET examination for Hindi must be conducted once again at the earliest possible date it saidMeanwhile students of various educational institutions including DU condemned the alleged brutal attack on doctors by Delhi Police An event was organised at Delhi Universitys Arts Faculty to express solitary with the resident doctors protesting over the delay in NEET PG counselling PTI SLB TIR TIR

New Delhi Sep 17 PTI Nearly 200 assistant professors who were recruited on a temporary basis under a special Education Ministry project celebrated Prime Minister Narendra Modis birthday on Friday and demanded the regularisation of their services as a return giftThe faculty members hired under the third phase Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme initiated with the World Bank have been protesting at Mandi House demanding they be made permanentSanjeev Vishwakarma who teaches in Assam said One of the protesting faculty members had brought his children along and they cut the birthday cake They demanded that their fathers job be regularised as a return gift from the prime minister All the protesting faculty members are IIT and NIT graduatesUnder the TEQIP-III project 1500 assistant professors were recruited on a temporary basis for 71 engineering institutions in rural areas with focus on 12 statesThe project is aimed at improving the quality of technical education especially in low income states by providing highly qualified faculty members to existing engineering collegesAfter the project period the state governments were supposed to recruit them Vishwakarma said adding they protested at Jantar Mantar and were given assurance that their case would be taken up with the respective state governments and were also granted extension for another six monthsWe are staring at unemployment and nothing has been done for our absorption We want a permanent policy for our absorption and the colleges where we were teaching recruit us permanently he said PTI SLB TIR TIR