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Ashoka University reacts after videos show students raising casteist slogans

Ashoka University said it attaches great value to freedom of expression, but it also attaches great importance to mutual respect.

In a video, students of Ashoka University are seen shouting slogans such as
Updated on Mar 28, 2024 10:13 AM IST

Malnutrition: Scaling digital behaviour change interventions

This article is authored by Sharon Barnhardt and Pratyusha Govindraju, Centre for Social and Behaviour Change, Ashoka University.

Malnutrition(Pic for representation)
Published on Jan 29, 2024 02:52 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

ED arrests 2 Ashoka University founders; what's 1626 crore case all about?

The agency, which investigates financial crimes, arrested the promoters of the company named Parabolic Drugs, who co-founded the university.

Enforcement Directorate (Representational photo)
Published on Oct 28, 2023 06:26 PM IST

No norms violated, says Ashoka University in row over its data centre

The scientific board of Ashoka University’s Trivedi Centre for Political Data (TCPD) announced its dissolution in an open letter on Tuesday

Ashoka University officials did not respond to requests seeking comment. (HT Archive)
Published on Sep 13, 2023 12:00 AM IST
ByAshna Butani

Ashoka University political science department extends solidarity to ex-professors

The department expressed solidarity with professor Sabyasachi Das, who resigned from the department of economics, after the university distanced itself from his work

Ashoka University. (HT File Photo)
Updated on Aug 17, 2023 12:59 PM IST

Ashoka row: Professors threaten exodus if Sabyasachi Das not reinstated

Das' colleagues have written to the Governing Body threatening a faculty exodus if he is not offered reinstatement.

Ashoka University(HT File)
Updated on Aug 16, 2023 07:21 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Sreelakshmi B

Ashoka University 'dismayed' over research hinting ‘vote manipulation’ in 2019

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey asked how Asoka University could allow the research paper which discredited India's poll process.

'Democratic Backsliding in the World's largest Democracy' research paper discusses voter manipulation in 2019 election. (HT_PRINT)
Updated on Aug 02, 2023 08:38 AM IST

Wildbuzz: The ‘double engine’ serpent

The floods had ravaged the area and the outlet was awash with deep water; the employees had stacked the cloth

Tenthouse workers search cloth piles for boa family; rescued mother and snakelets. (PHOTOS: SALIM KHAN)
Updated on Jul 30, 2023 03:23 PM IST

History is a living subject, should be revisited: Ashoka University chancellor

Ashoka University chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee strongly feels that mathematics and history both are among the worst taught subjects in most Indian schools, both suffer from same lacunae.

Ashoka University chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Feb 05, 2023 08:33 AM IST

Ashoka University students begin class boycott, demand changes

While the students boycotted most of the classes during the day, nearly 900 students attended a scheduled class by Pratap Bhanu Mehta and discussed Karl Marx and his celebrated work Das Kapital.

News of Mehta’s exit broke on Thursday (he resigned on March 15) and caused a stir among students, faculty, and the larger academic community in India and overseas.(File photo)
Updated on Mar 23, 2021 04:48 AM IST
By, New Delhi

Lapses in institutional processes over resignation of faculty: Ashoka varsity

Ashoka University acknowledges lapses in institutional processes over resignations of political commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta and noted economist Arvind Subramanian from its faculty.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (extreme right) and Arvind Subramanian (extreme left) resigned from Ashoka University recently.(Sanjeev Verma/Hindiustan Times File Photo)
Published on Mar 21, 2021 01:11 PM IST
PTI | , New Delhi

Ashoka, its ex-professors move to salvage situation

News of Mehta’s exit broke on Thursday—he resigned on March 15—and caused a stir among students and faculty of the university, and the academic community across India and overseas.

The statement issued by Ashoka University also sought to help the university regain some of the reputational ground it has lost in the past few days.(MINT_PRINT)
Updated on Mar 22, 2021 02:45 AM IST
By, New Delhi

'Lapses will be rectified': Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashoka varsity issue statement

Breaking their silence after a week, the board which includes the chancellor, vice-chancellor and the chairman of the board of trustees of the varsity said they express "deep regret at the recent events".

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (extreme right) and Arvind Subramanian (extreme left) resigned from Ashoka University recently.(HT file photo)
Updated on Mar 21, 2021 11:27 AM IST
By | Written by Arpan Rai, New Delhi

Ashoka students seek return of professors

Academics write open letter, term Mehta’s exit ‘dangerous attack on academic freedom’

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (extreme right) and Arvind Subramanian (extreme left) resigned from Ashoka University recently.(Sanjeev Verma/Hindiustan Times File Photo)
Updated on Mar 21, 2021 12:29 AM IST
By, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Varsity students plan two-day class boycott

150 academics write to varsity, term Mehta’s exit ‘dangerous attack on academic freedom’.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta (extreme right) and Arvind Subramanian (extreme left) resigned from Ashoka University recently.(Sanjeev Verma/Hindiustan Times File Photo)
Published on Mar 20, 2021 11:52 PM IST
By, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

Arvind Subramanian resigns as professor of Ashoka University

Arvind Subramanian resigns as professor of Ashoka University after Mehta; students, faculty stage protest

Arvind Subramanian.(REUTERS)
Published on Mar 19, 2021 10:04 AM IST
PTI | , New Delhi

Arvind Subramanian resigns as professor from Ashoka University

Eminent economist Arvind Subramanian has resigned as professor from Ashoka University, two days after noted political commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta's exit from the institution.

Arvind Subramanian, former chief economic advisor, had joined Ashoka University as a professor in the Department of Economics in July 2020.(Mohd Zakir/HT file photo)
Published on Mar 18, 2021 05:11 PM IST
PTI |

Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University’s first academic session likely to begin next year

The chief minister said that those designing courses will show the curriculum to industry bodies and companies and ask them if students who learn this will get jobs.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejirwal made the comments after meeting the newly appointed vice chancellor and board members of the university.(ANI file)
Updated on Oct 12, 2020 07:47 PM IST
New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India| Posted by Akhilesh

Classroom learning will change post COVID-19 lockdown, says HRD Secretary

Noting that more than 24 crore children in the country are going to be affected, Karwal both teachers and students will have to adjust a lot in the post lockdown world.

Representational image. (HT file)
Published on Jun 05, 2020 08:20 PM IST
New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India| Posted by Akhilesh Nagari

Review: My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories by Sumana Roy

A collection of 14 short stories about people who suffer from curious ailments

Plastic, not fantastic: One of the stories in this collection features a woman who attempts to throw every bit of plastic out of her home.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Updated on May 28, 2020 04:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | BySaudamini Jain

Lockdown Diaries: The comfort of sickness by Saikat Majumdar

Time has lost urgency, hours have become porous; they flow into each other throughout the day.

Definitely not love in the time of corona: A couple in the Botanical Gardens, Pondicherry, in an earlier era.(In Pictures via Getty Images)
Updated on Apr 04, 2020 03:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | BySaikat Majumdar

Universities are launching courses to study, address the climate crisis

The aim, they say, is to create batches of professionals who can work on mitigation as that becomes a priority across sectors.

(iStock)
Published on Feb 19, 2020 08:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Art installation on mental health awareness in Delhi

Ashoka University’s Ashoka Centre for Well-Being (ACWB) in collaboration with Red Balloon’s Young People for Change put together a week-long residential workshop to initiate conversations around mental health among the youth.

The installation on mental health awareness is being promoted by the India Art Fair.(unsplash)
Published on Feb 04, 2020 12:59 PM IST
New Delhi | ByIndo Asian News Service

Opinion| How the Constitution moulded citizens

The protests we’re seeing today — and which show little sign of slackening — are the most positive reaffirmation of our commitment to the Constitution. That’s another reason why this Republic Day is special

Are the anti-CAA protests a sign that our commitment to the Constitution is as strong as it ever was?(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
Published on Jan 25, 2020 05:50 PM IST

UGC: AMU, Panjab University, Ashoka University denied IoE tag, here’s a list of institutes who made the cut

Among the universities that have failed to make the cut are Aligarh Muslim University, Ashoka University, Azim Premji University, Tezpur University in Assam, Punjab university, Andhra University and Indian Institute of Public Health in Gandhinagar.

Aligarh Muslim University(HT File)
Published on Aug 03, 2019 03:48 PM IST
Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

Malabika Sarkar appointed Ashoka University’s new VC after Pratap Bhanu Mehta resigns

Malabika Sarkar, who is the third VC of the Ashoka University, said she looked forward to working with the faculty and students to build a world class university.

Malabika Sarkar(HT File)
Updated on Jul 21, 2019 09:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Podcast: The end of the never-ending campaign

This week on Grand Tamasha national political editor of Hindustan Times Sunetra Choudhury joins Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to reflect on some of her key takeaways from the 2019 campaign.

Updated on May 16, 2020 11:06 AM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: What assets, occupations of political hopefuls tell us

The data is extracted by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and merged with Trivedi Centre for Political Data’s (TCPD) own candidates’ data set.

Updated on May 23, 2019 06:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByGilles Verniers and Priyamvada Trivedi

Lok Sabha elections 2019: How does voter turnout impact election results?

The relative cost of turning out is affected primarily by party organizations. Good party organizations have polling booth workers who go to the homes of supporters and assist them in coming to vote, working around employment and housework.

The top 3 panels of the figure plot the probability of BJP winning, i.e., its strike rate, against the turnout change in at the constituency level in 1999, 2004, and 2014 using a statistical method known as binary logistic regression. (Peeyush Khandelwal / HT photo)
Updated on May 03, 2019 09:57 AM IST
New Delhi | ByNeelanjan Sircar

Podcast: Hindi heartland votes; and Niranjan Rajadhyaksha on Modi economy

This week on the Grand Tamasha podcast Neelanjan Sircar joins Milan Vaishnav to discuss the epic electoral battle in the crucial heartland state of Uttar Pradesh and whether recent state election results are a good barometer for how those states will behave in national elections.

Updated on May 07, 2020 09:59 PM IST
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