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A failing game of... money, muscle & caste
9 Oct 2016 2:44 PM GMTEarlier, student politics meant something. For example, during freedom struggle students were one of the main cogs in the wheel of India’s protracted...
Soon, new sports hostel & shooting range in DU
1 Oct 2016 11:49 PM GMTWith an aim to boost sports infrastructure in the Delhi University (DU), a new sports hostel and an international standard shooting range are being...
Soon, Delhi University may introduce several online courses on various subjects
30 Sep 2016 1:43 AM GMTWith the Central government’s push to popularise internet-based learning under the Digital India scheme, the Delhi University may see a launch of a...
DU sports teachers boycott Annual GBM
28 Sep 2016 1:09 AM GMTFuming over the change of designation from teaching staff to non-teaching staff, sports teachers of the Delhi University refused to attend the Annual...
Razing of huts at Yamuna plains hits students hard
26 Sep 2016 1:29 AM GMTThe National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) directive, banning farming on the Yamuna floodplains, demolition of hutments and clearing of standing crops in the...
Delhi University welcomes students from abroad in orientation programme
23 Sep 2016 12:29 AM GMTThe Delhi University received close to 100 foreign students under the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) scholarships, a marked increased...
Trend to opt for Hindi by foreign students grows in DU
22 Sep 2016 11:39 PM GMTTrends this year show a surge in the number applicants of Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) and increasing interest of foreign nationals in Hindi along...
DU’s Udaan Utsav to instill nationalism in students draws flak from Left-wing groups
21 Sep 2016 11:43 PM GMTThe dust has hardly settled in the Delhi University with the students’ union elections coming to an end but the issue of ‘nationalism vs...
DU’s quota conundrum
19 Sep 2016 11:54 PM GMTIt is not only students – belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) – who get relaxation in cut-offs...
OBC sympathisers in ABVP voted for Left, claim JNU insiders
12 Sep 2016 12:12 AM GMTRSS-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), however, failed to bag a single seat in the central panel. ABVP activists and students in the...
DUSU polls: ABVP wins 3 posts, NSUI 1
11 Sep 2016 10:29 PM GMTMeanwhile, the Congress-backed National Students Union of India’s (NSUI) two-year drought in the central panel ended with their Mohit Garid winning...
23-year-old from Ladakh wins unopposed as the president of DU’s LLM section
11 Sep 2016 10:27 PM GMTThe election for the post was scheduled on Friday along with the DUSU elections. Since her opponent had pulled out his nomination at the last moment,...