Articles tagged with: NLU Delhi

NLU Delhi regi GS Bajpai to make RGNUL Patiala ‘one of best in country’ as new VC

NLU Delhi former registrar and Prof GS Bajpai , who had retired in January 2021 will take over as vice-chancellor (VC) of RGNUL Patiala this Friday (21 May), according to Bar & Bench . He told Bar & Bench: RGNUL is already a fast-growing institution. My priority is too see that it is made ...

NLU Delhi GS Bajpai 6-year-run as registrar ends, to focus on research, Mar ‘21 crim law reform

NLU Delhi registrar Prof GS Bajpai, who has been in the role since 2014 under previous vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Ranbir Singh, has stepped down from the position.

No surprises: AILET 2021 postponed, will now happen on 20 June after CLAT

AILET postponed to 20 June 2021 Following the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), as expected, NLU Delhi ‘s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) date also fell victim to the CBSE board exams, and has postponed to 20 June 2021. The Ailet had originally been scheduled for 2 May 2021; the CBSE is schedule...

NLU Delhi’s AILET 2021 admissions test scheduled for 2 May 2021

Notification from NLU Delhi about Ailet 2021 NLU Delhi has announced a date of 2 May 2021 for its next All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), which is a separate entrance exam from the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for the other national law schools. The CLAT has not yet announced the date of its n...

DU CLC, NLU-D law students win 2021’s Rhodes scholarship at Oxford

At least two Indian law students have secured this year’s Rhodes Scholarship to study for a fully-funded postgraduate degree at Oxford University.

NLU Delhi wins Man Lachs space moot for India for 2nd time

Scoop: This will be the fifth time in 11 years that an Indian team has won the Lachs

How was your physical NLU Delhi AILET today? Test centre shortages dogged, aborted at least a few candidates

The NLU Delhi entrance test, the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), has taken place today at physical test centres via a computer-based test. NLU Delhi’s alternative to the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has generally drawn upwards of 20,000 candidates, though this year NLU Delhi has refused to ...

NLU Delhi confirms Ranbir successor: ‘Critical time’ ex-registrar Srikrishna Deva Rao to return as VC post 6 years of heading NLUO

We can reveal that NLU Delhi’s governing council (GC) has just confirmed the next VC with Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao, the current vice chancellor (VC) of NLU Cuttack in Odisha, according to two authoritative sources.

Big day tomorrow: NLU Delhi founder Ranbir Singh to continue as prof emeritus • GC to pick from Jaswal, Rao, Wani as successor

Prof Ranbir Singh, NLU Delhi’s founding vice chancellor (VC) who has served in the position for 11 years, is due to retire tomorrow (23 September), though he will continue to stay at the NLU as professor emeritus from 24 September.

NLU Delhi to hold physical AILET 2 days before CLAT

NLU Delhi‘s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) has bitten the bullet and picked a date for its all-new offline exam.

Cheating the home-proctor: YouTube whistleblower / amateur security researcher recants, claims Symbi’s SLAT is 100% foolproof (but the jury’s still out)

After our report on Monday (27 July) of how cheating was practically possible and/or attempted (though not necessarily successfully) by a number of candidates taking the home-proctored Symbiosis Law Admissions Test (SLAT) 2020, a very daring / foolhardy and/or public-minded candidate who uploaded his entire cheating attempt to YouTube, has now removed the video and disowned his cheating attempt.

NLU Delhi backtracks from home proctored AILET, to go ‘risky’ physical CLAT route • SC declines to intervene in CLAT

After initially criticising the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) national law universities’ approach of holding centre-based law school admissions tests as everything from not “patriotic” and carrying the “risk” of “mass infection” of candidates and their families, NLU Delhi has done an about turn and announced that it too would hold a centre-based physical test.

NLU Delhi home proctored admissions exam AILET postponed

NLU Delhi’s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) exam has been postponed again from 18 August to an unspecified future date.

NLU Delhi students send RTI, letter to chancellor against opaque ‘snail-paced’ VC appointment to succeed Ranbir Singh

Besides many Covid related decisions, a lot of other vital decisions need to be taken at NLU Delhi, argue the students*

Shots fired: NLUD’s online AILET implies physical CLAT not ‘patriotic’, ‘endangers’ families, risks ‘mass infection’ (rhetoric aside, all options seem bad)

The Cold War-esque rivalry between NLU Delhi’s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) and all the other national law universities’ (NLUs) competing Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has intensified, with the former directly implying that the latter’s plan to conduct the admissions test would be unsafe and against government policy, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

‘How can we let garbage pickers win?’: NLU Delhi housekeeping staff, students respond with video, appeal vs admin’s offer of alt jobs

The NLU Delhi students fighting for the continued employment at NLU Delhi of up to 55 housekeeping staff, via a third party contractor, have made an emotional video appeal and a written rebuttal to the university’s claim that it had “taken a decision to help on a purely humanitarian basis” by making “arrangements of their employment in the nearby areas”.

Delhi HC kills NLU Delhi 50% reservation this year, orders extending admissions deadline by a week

The Delhi High Court has temporarily stayed the 50% horizontal local domicile reservation that NLU Delhi had announced in January 2020, reported Livelaw today. The court directed the university to reverse the notification of the 50% reservation by issuing a new one its website, without the reservati...

NLU Delhi English prof writs VC selection process as unfair for being biased towards law-teaching ‘Master Race’

Prof Prasannanshu appeals against NLUD VC selection process An NLU Delhi professor who had applied for the post of vice-chancellor (VC) has filed a writ petition in the Delhi high court over the selection process for VC, terming it “grossly illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable and not germane to the pri...

‘Acquiescence at best, involvement at worst’: Alums speak out for NLUD Workers Students group, which rebuts admin ‘factual report’

The standoff between the NLU Delhi administration and a group of students protesting for the continuing employment of up to 55 campus cleaning staff (indirectly) came to a head over the weekend as on Friday one student and one worker were allegedly briefly detained by the police after student protests outside the main gates.

NLU Delhi admin to delay hard-won gov’t order in students’ epic 6-month battle to get cleaning staff their jobs back in midst of Covid crisis

Despite a Delhi ministry government order to return them to employment, the situation for the workers remains uncertain*