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Topic: Delhi University

How DU is wooing big firms to help students snag plum placements

Placement cell aims to bring 100 recruiters to its upcoming 'Job Mela', which will take place thrice a year. Move comes months after DU slipped in NIRF rankings.

‘Blatant political messaging’ – staff & students miffed as walls & logo of DU’s IP college turn saffron

Claiming that they were not aware of the move, a group of professors calls it ‘blatant political messaging’. AISA also criticises decisions of college administration.

IIT-Delhi among top 50 world institutions for engineering in QS Rankings, DU has most ranked entries

Other IITs to make the list are Kanpur, Kharagpur, & Madras. Overall, 66 Indian universities cumulatively achieved 355 entries of which 44 courses featured in top 100.

Students protest after DU bars 2 from exams for 1 yr over BBC Modi documentary screening

Groups including NSUI had tried to screen Gujarat riots documentary in January. University official says action 'well thought out', but MP & alum Shashi Tharoor says he's 'appalled'.

‘People with fake degrees should not throw rulebook’: TMC’s Mahua Moitra attacks Nishikant Dubey

Moitra's remarks came after BJP leader sought termination of Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha membership in front of parliamentary panel over speech on Adani-Hindenburg matter.

11,050 teaching posts vacant in central higher education institutes — DU, IIT-Kharagpur top list

Ministry of Education data in Rajya Sabha shows University of Delhi has 792 teaching positions lying vacant, IIT-Kharagpur has 819, and IIM-Tiruchirappalli has 51. 

Section 144 at DU arts faculty over BBC documentary screening, 24 students detained

The action comes days after a similar ruckus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia over the documentary’s screening.

DU pensioners & ad-hocs face non-payment, delays — ‘no strength to go knocking on doors’

Affected colleges include Ramanujan College & Rajdhani College. According to DU Registrar Vikas Gupta, these funds are directly released by UGC and university has no say in matter.

DU a step closer to seeking Rs 938-cr loan from govt, profs say this would ‘burden’ students

University’s finance committee approves decision to seek HEFA loan; matter now before DU’s highest body, the executive council.

Delhi University is the new battleground for queer students—stigma, suppression and suicide

At Hindu College, Zakir Husain College, Jesus and Mary College, and Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, the demands of students for a queer collective are met with resistance, ignorance, indifference, and even threats by authorities.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

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.