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Topic: Delhi University

Your creative talent won’t get you into DU anymore. Keep obsessing over marks marks marks

Delhi University’s sports quota remains, but the Extra-Curricular Activities quota is scrapped due to Covid. If classes & exams can go online, why can’t trials for ECA?

DU decides to postpone final year open book exam to August, informs High Court

The court condemned the varsity's decision, saying it was playing with student's lives and that it wasn't fair about its preparedness for conducting exams.

DU could postpone open book exams to August, asked by HRD ministry to list ‘challenges’

Delhi University’s decision to hold semester papers in OBE mode has been criticised by both students and teachers, and also challenged in High Court.

How Covid impacts education and the recipe for ICMR’s vaccine

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Online exams to start 10 July, those missing out can take physical exam in Sept: DU tells HC

The varsity said this would be irrespective of whether students have filled up applications online or not and in cases where they failed to upload their answer sheets.

Sonal Mansingh, Geeta Chandran & other artistes want DU to resume ECA admissions

In a letter addressed to Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, the artistes cited the Jagannath Rath Yatra and argued that even the ECA trials can be conducted with adequate safety measures.

Delhi University postpones open book exams by 10 days in view of rising Covid cases

The revised datesheets — of exams that were scheduled to begin from 1 July — for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes will be notified on July 3, the university said.

Colleges could drop plan to conduct offline exams in July as Covid cases rise

UGC has approached its expert committee, asking it to rethink the idea of holding exams in July and come up with an alternative solution.

Modi govt rankings out — IIT-Madras best institution in India, Miranda House best college

The Modi government has criticised the emphasis global excellence lists place on peer perception to question their assessment of Indian institutes.

Delhi HC refuses to interfere in Delhi University’s decision to hold open book exams

In its order, the court said it wanted to resolve issues faced by persons with disabilities while giving the exams and said they would be addressed by the time the exams start.

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Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.