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SV Krishna Chaitanya ByExpress News ServiceCHENNAI: IIT Madras banned its students from wearing black during a visit by Vice-President of India M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday evening. “This is the first time IIT-M has officially banned wearing black to attend a lecture,” a student said. “Two months back, when Krishna Gate was closed, some of us held a ‘black shirt’ protest,” said a student associated with Chintabar, an IIT-M students’ collective, adding the administration might have banned black anticipating similar protests. Two days back, students at Pondicherry University had protested before Naidu during the convocation on February 26. Earlier, when the Prime Minister attended a convocation, police had imposed an unofficial ban on wearing black..