OU women students protest on being asked to vacate hostel overnight
2 years, 3 months ago

OU women students protest on being asked to vacate hostel overnight

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Around 100 women students of the Arts and Science colleges of Osmania University protested the university’s order asking them to vacate their hostels, along with their luggage, overnight. The students, who were staying at the centenary block of the hostel, staged a sit-in protest and blocked the campus road, raising slogans against officials on Saturday. One of the protesting students said that despite it being a semester break, many students wanted to stay on campus to prepare for Group 1 SI and constabulary exams. To dissuade protest, the dean of student affairs Prof. B. Rajendra Naik met the students and assured them that they could stay on till September 25 and that a decision on the hostel building for the next semester would be taken later.

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Poor facilities disrupt classes of OU students
1 month, 1 week ago

Poor facilities disrupt classes of OU students

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: This year too, the students of Osmania University suffered because of a delay in the hostel accommodation process. Despite the commencement of classes on October 16, 2024, many students were unable to attend classes until after Diwali as the hostel mess was not operational and neither was the Wi-Fi fixed. The hostel administration should speed up the scheduling process …

Hyderabad: Nizam College Students End Protest After Hostel Allotment Assurance
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hyderabad: Nizam College Students End Protest After Hostel Allotment Assurance

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Undergraduate students of the Nizam College ended their four-day-old protest on Thursday after assurances from Congress MLC Dr Balmoor Venkat and the state government with regard to the demand for 100 per cent hostel allotment for female undergraduates. He later assured the students that the academic year for postgraduate students would conclude by September, after which all hostel rooms …

OU Hostels to Remain Open During Summer Vacation
7 months, 3 weeks ago

OU Hostels to Remain Open During Summer Vacation

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Osmania University on Tuesday announced that its hostels would remain open during the summer vacation to help students who would be preparing for competitive and recruitment exams. A statement issued by the university on Tuesday said, "In response to the representation received from students, the university administration is pleased to announce that the university hostels will remain operational during …

OU Campus Heats up with Protests Over Lack of Water and Power in Hostels
7 months, 3 weeks ago

OU Campus Heats up with Protests Over Lack of Water and Power in Hostels

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Osmania University chief warden of hostels on Monday said that summer vacations would begin from May 1, and asked students to cooperate as there was a severe shortage of water and electricity. Almost immediately after the chief warden issued the notice, students marched to the varsity’s administrative building and demanded that the officials explain how the university could …

OU Women Hostellers Bash Intruder, Hand Him Over To Police
10 months, 3 weeks ago

OU Women Hostellers Bash Intruder, Hand Him Over To Police

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Boarders of the Osmania University PG women’s hostel in Secunderabad beat one of three drunk stalkers who were trying to enter the building by breaking open the washroom glass window in the ground floor, at around 12.30 pm on Friday. My friend Arya Anjali, other girls and I came out of their rooms and saw three drunken men who …

EFLU students to resume stir, invite students from other varsities to join in
1 year, 1 month ago

EFLU students to resume stir, invite students from other varsities to join in

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Students of the English and foreign Language University are set to resume their protest from the last week of this month, albeit in a novel way. Members of the students' JAC informed this correspondent that they intend to invite students from other universities to join in their protest events. The authorities had on October 19 lodged cases on eleven …

Police book 11 EFLU students for protesting against alleged sexual assault
1 year, 2 months ago

Police book 11 EFLU students for protesting against alleged sexual assault

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Osmania University police registered an FIR against 11 students of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad for holding a protest against a case of sexual assault on the campus. The protest in which over 200 students participated was in response to an alleged sexual assault incident that occurred on October 18. In his complaint, Samson stated that the 11 …

Tension on OU campus as students storm VC’s chamber
2 years, 1 month ago

Tension on OU campus as students storm VC’s chamber

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: About 200 students from Nizam College and E2 hostellers held a protest in front of the Vice-Chancellor's administration building. A group of second-year Nizam College students along with student organisation activists attempted to enter the VC's chambers by breaking the windows, protesting the management's decision to relocate them for E2 hostel. Nizam College PG students claimed the administration was …

Squads keep strict vigil on ragging in campuses
2 years, 1 month ago

Squads keep strict vigil on ragging in campuses

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Despite the recent incident of students ragging and assaulting a batchmate in ICFAI Business School, officials claimed there were few such cases because of strict enforcement, punishments and the presence of anti-ragging squads. Prof. Laxminarayana said another factor that prevented ragging, especially in colleges under OU, was that many students are members of one of the major student groups, …

Nizam College splits hostel seats, protests continue
2 years, 1 month ago

Nizam College splits hostel seats, protests continue

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Undergraduate students of Nizam College continued their protest on Saturday, demanding that they be allotted all the rooms in the new hostel. Following earlier protests for over a week by girl undergraduate students of the college demanding hostel facilities, Osmania University had allotted 50 per cent of the rooms to UG students and the other half to PG students. …

Osmania University holiday extension leaves students in the lurch
2 years, 2 months ago

Osmania University holiday extension leaves students in the lurch

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The decision of Osmania University to extend the holidays has left students who returned to the campus after the Dasara vacation in the lurch. Angered over this, over 100 students staged a sit-in protest on Tuesday, demanding that the management roll back its decision and start mess facilities in the hostels. A student who is pursuing law said the …

OU hostel inmates asked to leave; up in arms against VC
2 years, 11 months ago

OU hostel inmates asked to leave; up in arms against VC

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Osmania University has asked its resident students to vacate the hostels immediately, after the government declared holidays for education institutions from January 8 to 16. The university just informed us to vacate hostels without telling us a reopening date,” said D. Naresh, state president, Dalit Minority Student Association. “They are forcefully living in the hostel for 10 years and …

OU campus tense after students protest fee hike
3 years ago

OU campus tense after students protest fee hike

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Protests by students, led by ABVP, escalated as 3,000 students belonging to Osmania University, JNTU-Hyderabad, Mahatma Gandhi University and Kakatiya University demanded immediate withdrawal of the proposed fee hike in their institutions. "Around 300 students barged into the campus and broke several glass doors by shoving away security guards and police personnel," said Prof Ravinder adding that such violent …

Students protest at Osmania seeking Covid testing, postponement of exams
3 years, 9 months ago

Students protest at Osmania seeking Covid testing, postponement of exams

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Over 200 students staged a protest at Osmania University on Friday seeking Covid-19 testing and postponement of exams, after they claimed that six students there tested positive for the coronavirus. After conducting tests for just 150 students, the university says it would not do further tests as we have exams the next day. Students said, “The university is neither …

AMU students seek resumption of hostel facilities, stage protest
3 years, 10 months ago

AMU students seek resumption of hostel facilities, stage protest

India Today  

The students of Aligarh Muslim University have staged a protest, urging the college authorities to resume the functioning of hostel facilities on campus and the resumption of offline classes due to the various difficulties faced by the students amid the pandemic. He further added that all the students are demanding offline classes for final year students and the resumption of …

University of Hyderabad student union plans 5-day protest
4 years ago

University of Hyderabad student union plans 5-day protest

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad Student Union has planned a five-day agitation on the campus, ahead of the Academic Council meeting scheduled on December 22. Citing UGC guidelines from September 2020, the Student Union said that the last date for admission to vacant seats was November 30, whereas the UoH closed admissions, much earlier adding to the woes of students …

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