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Sunday, October 19, 2025
TopicIndian Universities

Topic: Indian Universities

Who is the Indian university really for? Delhi scholars critique NEP’s gaps

Debaditya Bhattacharya's book launch in Delhi sparked a timely discussion on the state of higher education in India. Scholars Zoya Hasan, Simona Sawhney, and Tanika Sarkar were part of the panel.

NEP meets reality, DU to Motihari: Godown campus, research without labs, no space for 4-yr degrees

This is Part 3 of a four-part series. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Motihari/New Delhi: When a 21-year-old, first-generation student...

NEP turns 5: Gains, gaps & ground realities, a report card on India’s biggest education reform

Many of the schemes recommended under the policy are now in place, but implementation is uneven. Stakeholders say it's too early to expect widespread results.

Deepak Nayyar wants to abolish UGC and end political appointments at universities

It is no accident that our universities have not produced any Nobel laureates. ‘I think they never will in the next 25 years, the way we are going,’ said Nayyar.

Indian universities in ‘global intellectual marketplace’, delayed census & public infra’s monsoon test

Financial Times points out that a ‘crunch’ in rare-earth materials due to China reducing exports could adversely impact India’s car manufacturing industry.

To use or not, is no longer the question. From IITs to DU, universities are fighting unethical AI use

IIT-Delhi panel has recommended AI-assisted content be clearly cited in captions, footnotes, or main text. Director says these were just ‘first tranche’ of recommendations.

Universities should develop personality, otherwise learning is worthless: C Rajagopalachari

On 8 August 1949, India’s last Governor-General C Rajagopalachari spoke about the state of higher education in India and its shortcomings at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

How bribery scandal involving a Guntur university has cast doubts on integrity of NAAC’s rating process

Members of National Assessment & Accreditation Council inspection committee, including a JNU professor, have been arrested for granting favourable ratings to KLEF Deemed to Be University.

Leave education to universities, limit UGC role to grants—SN Bose in Rajya Sabha

On 21 March 1955, Prof SN Bose participated in a debate on the UGC Bill and expressed concern about certain clauses that suggested 'the central government will be interfering with the working of universities'.

NIRF parameters ill-designed & lead to absurd university ratings. Govt must order a review

NIRF overall rankings in 2023 used 16 parameters to evaluate universities. These parameters represent a good spread of criteria — only theoretically.

On Camera

Hitlerite vegetarianism is not virtue. India’s food debates need more science, less sentiment

Vegetarianism is as much a fad as prohibition. To say that man by nature is vegetarian is baseless and misguiding, wrote Tahir Siddiqui in 1953.

Paul John Whisky, Malhar Gin win top honours at Soho India Wine & Spirits Awards 2025

Goa: Creators of the Paul John Indian Single Malt Whisky and Malhar India Craft Gin, John Distilleries registered yet another stellar showing at the...

Munir threatens India, again; accuses Delhi of ‘using’ TTP, asks Afghan Taliban to ‘rein in proxies’

Speaking at Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad’s Kakul, Field Marshal Munir said it is ‘disconcerting that Afghan soil is being used for terrorism in Pakistan’.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.