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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicAshoka University

Topic: Ashoka University

Ashoka University students decry ‘privacy violation’ as baggage scanners, metal detectors enter campus

New rules also state that cigarettes and alcohol will be confiscated and sent to the dean of student affairs. Constantly engaging with the student government, says administration.

Jadavpur University Press is a rare success in publishing. Now Ashoka is catching up too

Distribution and display have always been twin challenges for small publishers, more so for university presses, who have the added burden of perception.

With changing student & faculty demographic, Ashoka students look beyond traditional Humanities

Data shows a trend setting in of more Ashoka University students opting for majors that offer relatively secure career prospects, such as Economics, Finance, and Psychology.

Off The Cuff with Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Ashish Dhawan & Pramath Raj Sinha

Ashoka University founders Pramath Raj Sinha, Sanjeev Bikhchandani and Ashish Dhawan join Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta for an exclusive conversation in this edition of the...

Girish Karnad to Sai Paranjpye, why Indian icons have donated to Ashoka University’s archive

Ashoka University’s archive is India’s first within a private university. It’s slowly becoming a favourite destination for eminent personalities looking to preserve their legacies.

Is English dominating Indian translations? ‘It’s like alien invasion’

‘Why don't we translate directly from Telugu into Odia?’ This was one of the questions raised at the ‘Bhashavaad’ National Translation Conference hosted by Ashoka University at Delhi's IIC.

Why Ashoka student body wants university to ‘boycott Israeli universities & exchange programmes’

Members of Ashoka University student body met representatives of management who told them that their demands were not under consideration for the time being, it is learnt.

ED arrests 2 Ashoka University co-founders in money laundering case against their pharma firm

Ashoka University says it has no ties to Chandigarh-based Parabolic Drugs Ltd of which Pranav Gupta is MD & Vineet Gupta ‘whole time director’. ED has also arrested CA SK Bansal.

ED arrests 3, including 2 Ashoka University founders, on money laundering charges

Vineet and Pranav Gupta, co-founders of Sonepat-based university, stepped down from their posts in 2022 after the CBI registered a case against them in 2021.

Nine-year-old Ashoka University is asking the most important question. Who am I?

Ashoka University tried hard to project an unapologetic centrism, but it just couldn’t shake its notorious tag—JNU of the private sector. Now it's unravelling in a funders-vs-faculty battle.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.