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Topic: Delhi University

JNU warns students against joining Jantar Mantar protest. IIT Roorkee, DU did it earlier

In a post on X, JNU asked students to 'exercise responsibility on social media', and warned that 'violations may invite legal consequences under applicable laws'.

UPSC aspirant ‘surveilled, pressured by cops to say she’s part of CJP’, Brinda Karat writes to Delhi CP

Post-graduate student says she was accosted by policemen at her gym a day before CJP protest at Jantar Mantar, questioned, coerced to show her phone, and then surveilled continuously

Property row with tenant family behind DU prof’s murder. How cops tracked them down to Bengal

A couple and their minor son were held Sunday. The family had travelled to Delhi to 'eliminate' the victim after being asked by her to vacate her property, cops say.

St Stephen’s students are divided between backing DU intervention and first woman principal

Susan Elias’s appointment was seen as a moment of change at St Stephen’s, but DU’s objection has plunged the college back into crisis.

How humanities-heavy St. Stephen’s found its 1st woman principal from AI background

A computer scientist and academic administrator, Susan Elias brings to St. Stephen’s a profile markedly different from the humanities-heavy leadership traditions often associated with the college.

AAP student wing ASAP wants to bring a different kind of Delhi University campus politics

Launched just months after AAP’s defeat in the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections, ASAP also represents the party’s attempt to rebuild its youth outreach and campus presence after years of decline.

The all-new Hansraj College. Cows, Gayatri mantra, BJP videos, FIRs & principal Rama Sharma

Rama Sharma is the first woman and Hindi professor to serve as Hansraj principal. She has clashed with students over weddings, gaushalas, suspensions. 'Hansraj is my ideology,' she says.

Machismo, mobs & misinformation: Campus politics at Delhi University has turned into hooliganism

Student participation in politics is vital. But when union leaders vandalise, the campus stops being a space for ideas and discussions.

Jamia hosts RSS-linked event despite protest by Left, NSUI; protesters say ‘this is our space’

Event was organised by ABVP, students’ wing of RSS, under banner of Yuva Kumbh. Left-affiliated groups, NSUI staged protest amid heavy police presence outside Jamia Millia Islamia.

Romila Thapar on André Béteille—’He pushed us to think about society differently’

Delhi's IIC hosted a discussion titled ‘Remembering Prof. André Béteille: Life, Scholarship and Legacy’, chaired by sociologist Dipankar Gupta.

On Camera

Ajinkya Rahane’s farewell closes the chapter on India’s greatest Test generation

Ajinkya Rahane was at the heart of India's rise under Kohli and Shastri. Nowhere was his understated value more immortalised than during the 2020–21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

In Delhi, an emotional farewell to former Army chief Gen VN Sharma with full state honours

The three service chiefs paid tributes, along with several former Army chiefs. Friends & fellow soldiers remember him as a 'natural charmer'.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.