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Wednesday, December 10, 2025
TopicDelhi University

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.

On Camera

India is an aerospace giant on paper, importer in practice—what China did right and we didn’t

For decades, India’s defence industry has churned out ‘indigenous’ hardware. Much of it is mere assembly of imported kits or licensed production, masking a deep import dependence.

Niti Aayog CEO has a message for power stakeholders. Buckle up for surge to feed EVs, data centres

Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.