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Topic: Ashoka University

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.

New Delhi’s elite gather to argue against elitism of literature. Most leave with puzzled faces

Amit Chaudhuri and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra got together at New Delhi’s IIC to discuss how literature can be viewed from the lens of national identity.

Ashoka University’s real issue is the clash between ‘suits’ that fund and ‘boots’ that run it

The tight ‘suits’ that adorn Ashoka’s governing body will do well to shed them for looser kurtas. The management’s submissiveness became the discussion point rather than the merits of the paper.

‘Hasty acceptance of resignation’ — Ashoka economics dept wants Professor Sabyasachi Das back

Dept writes open letter to university's governing body. Prof Das's paper suggesting that BJP won 'disproportionately' in closely contested seats in 2019 polls has stoked controversy.

Sabyasachi Das’ paper is ground breaking. But ‘democratic backsliding’ is gross exaggeration

Sabyasachi Das asked a good and an important question. This is the job of academics. But a single paper is hardly the final truth. It’s a fragment of a broader puzzle.

Ashoka University prof’s paper full of political fog. It only disproves 2019 electoral fraud

Shashi Tharoor to Nishikant Dubey--nobody has thoroughly read Sabhysachi Das' paper to understand its content and context. Both are closely intertwined.

Something was fishy about 2019 polls for sure, but don’t expect Das’ paper to catch the fish

Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy, a yet unpublished paper by Dr. Sabyasachi Das, an economist who teaches at Ashoka University, has drawn attention, as it should.

Is WFH solution to India’s low female labour participation? Not really, says economist

New Delhi: Could remote working be the solution to one of India’s most persistent problems — its abysmally low female workforce participation? The question,...

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The Kapoors’ love for food is stuff of legends. Netflix gets us a seat at a table

If there is one celebrity who has made talking about food both relatable and entertaining, it is Kareena Kapoor Khan.

Nvidia worth $5 trillion: What does it mean for the market?

The chipmaker at the heart of the AI revolution may be the most influential stock in Wall Street history. Nvidia has been the primary driver of the market’s gains since the start of 2023.

Launch of India’s heaviest comms satellite is a level up for its soaring military ambitions. Here’s how

ISRO’s LMV3 rocket set off the CMS-03 satellite from Sriharikota Sunday. It weighs 4,410 kg, will primarily serve Indian Navy and has a life of at least 15 years.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.