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Monday, October 20, 2025
TopicSouth Asian University

Topic: South Asian University

Emails, threats & sexual assault: SAU student alleges gangrape, says staff tried to suppress incident

Condemning the incident, South Asian University asserts that it has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment and all forms of violence against women.

Maha Shivratri, ‘Maoists’ & a veg-non-veg war—another controversy hits Delhi’s SAU

The mess served fish, as on all Wednesdays, while there were special arrangements for those observing Maha Shivratri. An ABVP-SFI fight ensued.

Taliban appoints ‘acting consul’ at consulate in Mumbai, first appointee by current Afghan regime

Ikramuddin Kamil spent 7 years studying in India on an MEA scholarship. There is no official response by the MEA, yet. India has no official diplomatic ties with Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Spat over movie screening, professor’s exit lays bare ‘toxic’ academic culture & ‘petty’ politics at SAU

Heated exchanges on X between current & former students of South Asian University over a professor’s ‘forced’ retirement point to tensions among teachers, ‘lack of academic freedom’.

South Asian University is now pale shadow of itself. Blame geopolitics, protests & academic control

Row over student citing Chomsky’s criticism of PM in research proposal & retirement of professor is latest flashpoint. But, there's no denying that SAU was a unique academic project.

‘Inhumane, undemocratic’: Rajya Sabha MP slams South Asian University undertaking for students

In his letter to SAU acting president, Binoy Viswam of CPI has called out two declarations in mandatory ‘general undertaking’ for students and asked for their removal.

‘Revoke suspension’ of SAU profs — 500+ academics from Indian, foreign universities write to SAARC

Academics from universities in India, US & UK are among 502 signatories. Their letter comes days after academics from Bangladesh wrote to the South Asian University demanding the same.

83 Bangladeshi academics write to Delhi’s SAU, demand reinstatement of suspended professors

Letter to the SAARC university says 'such despotic practices can only breed in non-democratic environment'. The professors, suspended in June, were accused of inciting student protests.

Visa woes, ‘low stipend’, protest backlash — why SAARC university is a far cry from Manmohan’s vision

Since its establishment in 2010, South Asian University has seen various controversies — the most recent ones being students protesting against university's admin & suspension of faculty.

4 SAARC university professors suspended for ‘misconduct’, accused of ‘inciting student protest’

Suspensions come months after South Asian University was rocked by student protests seeking an increase in the monthly stipend for Master’s and PhD programmes, among other demands.

On Camera

America imagines Asim Munir is the cure to jihadism. He is the disease

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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.