1. Left wing supporters have caught two college students, who, they claimed, had been throwing the stones. The 2, they mentioned, belong to the ABVP, the scholars’ wing of the BJP’s ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. “College students of ABVP pelted stones at us,” mentioned N Sai Balaji, former president of the College students Union.  

2. “To make sure the security of scholars we’ve come in direction of the principle gate. We would like pressing restoration of electrical energy. We is not going to transfer from the gate until the time electrical energy is restored. The police should not responding to our calls,” he added.

3. Ayeshi Ghosh, president of the Left-backed College students’ Federation of India, alleged that the administration was chargeable for the blackout. “We are going to watch the documentary with the assistance of cellphones utilizing QR codes,” she advised NDTV. The JNU administration was not out there for remark.

4. The JNU administration had refused to offer permission for the screening, which India has barred from on-line sharing. The administration mentioned disciplinary motion can be taken if the documentary was screened.

5. The scholars argued that the screening is not going to violate any rule of the college, or have an effect on communal concord. The screening was scheduled for 9 pm, however earlier than that, energy and web went off on the College students’ Union workplace.

6. After the blackout, the scholars headed for a cafeteria contained in the campus, the place they watched the documentary on their cellphones and laptops. Whereas they had been watching the documentary, some stones had been thrown at them from behind the bushes, sources mentioned. Later, they began a protest march which remains to be on.

7. Earlier immediately, a scholar group in Hyderabad College screened the documentary. The college authorities have requested its officers to submit a report on the matter.

8. Final week, sources mentioned the federal government had requested Twitter and YouTube to take away the controversial BBC sequence on PM Modi, which claims to have investigated sure points of the 2002 Gujarat riots when he was the Chief Minister of the state.

9. In a pointy takedown of the BBC, the Centre known as it a “propaganda piece designed to push a selected discredited narrative”. “The bias and lack of objectivity and albeit persevering with colonial mindset are blatantly seen,” the international ministry mentioned.

10. Slamming the federal government over the “censorship”, a number of opposition leaders had tweeted various hyperlinks the place the primary of the two-part sequence could possibly be watched.  “Disgrace that the emperor & courtiers of the world’s largest democracy are so insecure (sic),” tweeted Trinamool Congress’s Mohua Moitra.

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