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Sunday, October 26, 2025
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Topic: College Admission

Technical colleges likely to see two-three month delay in 2021-22 academic session

States like Maharashtra haven’t been able to finish their admission counselling for 2020-21 so far. As a result, AICTE expects a delay in the next session.

Refund full fee to students withdrawing admission before 10 November, AICTE tells colleges

The AICTE allowed technical institutions to deduct no more than Rs 1,000 for processing fee. But a student withdrawing after the deadline will have to pay for that term.  

IIMC asked to revisit its admission criteria based on marks after Supreme Court ruling 

I&B Secretary Amit Khare says IIMC has been asked to revisit admission norms after SC ruling that said states can’t promote final-year students without holding exams as ordered by UGC.

AICTE slashes 2 lakh seats across engineering, management and pharmacy colleges

The council said no new engineering colleges will be permitted to open until 2021-22 and colleges have been restricted from adding more seats.

Hollywood actor sent to jail for rigging daughter’s college entrance exam scores

'Desperate Housewives' star Felicity Huffman is the first parent to be sentenced in a college admissions scandal that has sparked nationwide outrage.

As JU cancels admission tests, faculty and students protest ‘assault on 40-year-old legacy’

As many as 16 of the JU English department’s 18 teachers have opted out of the admission process in protest.

A guide to surviving and thriving in Delhi University, by Gurmehar Kaur

My first year in a Delhi University college was, of course, stranger than most students’ first year in college.

With soaring marks in class XII boards, is there space for 70 percenters in India’s colleges?

Experts weigh in on the rise in percentages, over the years, across different boards for class XII students and their impact on college admissions.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.