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

2. “To ensure the safety of students we have come towards the main gate. We want urgent restoration of electricity. We will not move from the gate till the time electricity is restored. The police are not responding to our calls,” he added.

3. Aishe Ghosh, president of the Left-backed Students’ Federation of India, alleged that the administration was liable for the blackout. “We will watch the documentary with the help of mobile phones using QR codes,” she instructed NDTV. The JNU administration was not accessible for remark.

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

5. After the blackout, the scholars headed for a cafeteria contained in the campus, the place they watched the documentary on their cellphones and laptops. While they have been watching the documentary, some stones have been thrown at them from behind the bushes, sources mentioned. 

6. Late at evening, the scholars marched in the direction of police station and held a protest there. The protest was later referred to as off after the police assured them that they may look into the matter. “We filed a complaint, and the police assured us they’ll be immediately looking into the incident. We gave the name and details of all the persons involved,” Ms Ghosh mentioned, based on ANI.

7. Earlier within the day, a pupil group in Hyderabad University screened the documentary. The college authorities have requested its officers to submit a report on the matter.

8. Last 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 elements of the 2002 Gujarat riots when he was the Chief Minister of the state.

9. In a pointy takedown of the BBC, the Centre referred to as it a “propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative”. “The bias and lack of objectivity and frankly continuing colonial mindset are blatantly visible,” the overseas 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 may very well be watched.  “Shame that the emperor & courtiers of the world’s largest democracy are so insecure (sic),” tweeted Trinamool Congress’s Mohua Moitra.

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