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Stockholm, Feb 20: Greta Thunberg on Friday tweeted her support for an Indian activist jailed over a guide for anti-government farmers protests, which the Swedish climate campaigner had earlier shared to social media.

Rashmi Samant, the first Indian woman to be elected president of the Oxford University Student Union, has quit after the emergence of old social media posts that were deemed to be “racist” and “insensitive”.

New Delhi, Feb 17: A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in a defamation complaint filed by former Union Minister and BJP leader M J Akbar against sexual harassment charges levelled against him by the former during the #MeToo campaign.

Updated Feb 13, 2021 | 12:39 IST Rashmi Samant will become Oxford Student Union President after winning the elections. MIT student is all set to become the first Indian women to occupy the position of Student Union President. Rashmi Samant to become Oxford Student Union President&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspRepresentative Image Alumni of Manipal Institute of Technology, MIT created history by winning the prestigious position of Oxford Student Union President. Rashmi Sam...

Samant is the first Indian woman to occupy the position of president of the Oxford Student Union.

Rashmi Samant, an alumna of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), won the presidential election to Oxford Student Union on Thursday.She is the first Indian

A number of large protests went ahead in Oxford in 2020 despite the coronavirus, including a Rhodes Must Fall demonstration in High Street in the summer and a Black Lives Matter rally in South Park. There is a right to protest in the UK but officers have the power to break up and fine people for being part of a protest, on coronavirus health grounds. In June, police didnt break up peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrations even though they would breach coronavirus laws. There were hundr...

An Oxford University college has decided to keep its statue of a Barbados-born slave owner. All Souls College has dropped the name Christopher Codrington from its library, but has refused to remove its controversial statue. In a statement published at the end of last year the college said "rather than seek to remove [the statue] the college will investigate further forms of memorialisation and contextualisation within the library, which will draw attention to the presence of enslaved peo...

An Oxford college has removed the name of an 18th century slave trader from its main library but has defied calls to take down his statue. All Souls College reviewed its link to Christopher Codrington, a Barbados-born colonial governor, in the wake of last years Black Lives Matter movement. The former college fellow who died in 1710 bequeathed £10,000 to the library which has since been unofficially known as the Codrington Library.  All Souls College has removed the name of an 18th century s...

Toggle Sidebar All Souls College change Codrington Library name, but keep statue of slaveholder [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Amelia Wood (Cherwell) writes about attempts by All Souls College (Oxford, England) to acknowledge that Christopher Codrington’s wealth was derived as a product of enslaved people’s work in the Caribbean, while not removing his statue from the Codrington Library. The College’s Governing Body announced that there will be a n...