The university under the aegis of the Centre for Independence and Partition Studies will organise various events on the occasion, including a photography exhibition and screening of a short film based on the experiences of partition survivors, an official statement said.

The students will be taught a selection of 40 couplets from Kabir Bani in the first semester as part of the revisions recommended by the Faculty of Arts, officials said.  

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has stated that there is no endorsement of the proposal to include Manusmriti in the syllabus of Delhi University’s law course. Pradhan clarified that some law faculty members had proposed changes in the jurisprudence chapter, but these were not approved by the Academic Council.

The three new centres will be established under the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, it said.

Students highlighted the selective enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct and the failure to address Islamophobic rhetoric. The event was marked by expressions of sadness and a call for the Election Commission to uphold its responsibility to conduct free and fair elections.

During a press conference, Saibaba shared details of his "prison ordeal" and became visibly emotional while discussing the impact the past seven years had on his family.

In a significant legal development, the Maharashtra government has escalated its legal confrontation to the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, following the Bombay High Court's recent verdict acquitting former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and five others in a case related to alleged Maoist links.