NUSRL Ranchi vice chancellor BC Nirmal has been willing to resume his duties at the law school for more than eight months now during which he has been allegedly forced to stay away from work and has allegedly been denied his salary, emoluments and benefits even though he was not removed from his post but only went on leave, he said.

Students of NUSRL Ranchi, have hammered out a compromise agreement with a new acting vice chancellor, winning a series of concessions to improve the administration and management at the law school.

The NUJS Kolkata student juridical association (SJA) president reacted to NUSRL Ranchi vice chancellor Prof BC Nirmal’s statement that NUSRL students are protesting on campus not for rights but for a holiday, calling him “delusional” and “plain indifferent”, in a Facebook post.

NUSRL Ranchi’s student body is out in full force before its campus gates since yesterday, having locked out the administration and faculty members until NUSRL vice chancellor Prof BC Nirmal, and registrar in charge Dr PP Mitra, resign or are removed from their posts and the students’ other demands are met.

NUSRL Ranchi students boycotted an exam today to protest the alleged lack of a competent teaching faculty to teach the psychology paper at the law school. The students allege that the faculty member appointed for the psychology paper is incompetent.

NUSRL Ranchi’s assistant registrar was suspended from his position after a first year student of the law school filed a complaint of sexual harassment against him. Two committees have been set up to inquire into the complaint against the assistant registrar Dr Narendra Narottam, who was the universi...

Former Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Prof BC Nirmal has today joined NUSRL Ranchi as vice chancellor, almost five months after the last VC demitted office.