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Monday, November 17, 2025
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Topic: Hostels

10-year wait, but no dedicated hostel. JNU’s Northeast students say their ‘voices disrespected’

The students didn’t find support from student bodies either, which argued that region-wise hostel allotment would lead to the ‘ghettoisation’ of Northeast students.

How queer are universities? Architect imagines DU north campus as a non-binary lesbian

The state and private real estate shape campus spaces to mirror the surveillance and scrutiny faced by LGBTQIA+ students, argued architect Chan Arun-Pina at a Bengaluru lecture.

‘Paying entire mess staff’s salary’ — close to 400 IIT-Delhi students protest hostel mess fee hike

Students allege mess charges were 'arbitrarily doubled' and then capped at Rs 35,000. However, they are still having to pay over Rs 7,000/month.

Classic idea with funky touch — this hostel start-up has big plans to boost ‘backpacker culture’

Backpacker hostel brand goSTOPS is planning to expand from 2,500 beds in 32 hostels currently, to 10,000 beds in 100 hostels by June 2023, with an eye on Gen-Z travellers.

Delhi HC asks MHA to consider plea to let students stay in hostels for final exams

Due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, all govt, private hostels & PGs, except a few, are shut which has been causing difficulty to final year students.

On Camera

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.