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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.
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.
Published on Jan 29, 2024 02:52 PM IST
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.
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
Published on Sep 13, 2023 12:00 AM IST
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Updated on Feb 05, 2023 08:33 AM IST
Manish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow
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.
Updated on Mar 23, 2021 04:48 AM IST
Kainat Sarfaraz, 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.
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.
Updated on Mar 22, 2021 02:45 AM IST
Fareeha Iftikhar, 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".
Updated on Mar 21, 2021 11:27 AM IST
hindustantimes.com | 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’
Updated on Mar 21, 2021 12:29 AM IST
HT Correspondent, 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’.
Published on Mar 20, 2021 11:52 PM IST
HT Correspondent, 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
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.
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.
Updated on Oct 12, 2020 07:47 PM IST
New Delhi |
Press 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.
Published on Jun 05, 2020 08:20 PM IST
New Delhi |
Press 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
Updated on May 28, 2020 04:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times |
Saudamini 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.
Updated on Apr 04, 2020 03:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times |
Saikat 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.
Published on Feb 19, 2020 08:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Dipanjan Sinha
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.
Published on Feb 04, 2020 12:59 PM IST
New Delhi |
Indo 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
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.
Published on Aug 03, 2019 03:48 PM IST
Press Trust of India |
Press 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.
Updated on Jul 21, 2019 09:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT 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 |
Gilles 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.
Updated on May 03, 2019 09:57 AM IST
New Delhi |
Neelanjan 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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