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Heading: Shiuli Biswas appointed as New Head of Residence Life On 9th October, 2025, the Dean of Student’s Affairs, Dr. Dheeraj Sanghi, announced that Ms. Shiuli Biswas had been appointed as the Head of Residence Life, in an email addressed to the student body. Biswas had previously worked within the Residence Life Office and Chairman Board of Trustee as Chief of Staff and Director. She had also served as an Non Teaching-Staff Member on the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC)

Nila Nagaraja (UG '29) reports on Ashoka University's 500 new scholarships.

Following the administration’s decision to reject online classes , an email sent by the Campus Life Ministry (CLM) on October 23rd mentioned that, based on past trends, the administration anticipates that “the air quality will naturally improve in the coming days.” However, ten days later, on Saturday, 1st November, 2025, Ashoka’s Air Quality Index (AQI) surged to 291 at 11:00 am. This is the highest recorded level in the University this year, since January 15th, 2025, which

Despite a spike in AQI in Delhi-NCR, Dean of Academic Affairs Bikram Phookun and Vice-Chancellor Somak Raychaudhury have decided against online or hybrid classes, as confirmed in an email to faculty members on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025. In the coming week, however, certain faculty members decided to conduct online classes.  About a month prior to Diwali, Campus Life Ministry (CLM) consolidated a smog-week proposal following a student survey with over 800 responses. They pro

At around 1:22 A.M, on Saturday, 20th September 2025, several students reported seeing a glowing object streak above campus, which was observed moving for about 5-7 seconds, tracing an arc in the sky. Similar glowing objects were seen in various regions of Delhi NCR  at the same time. The Ashoka football team present in Pilani also saw it moving eastward towards Delhi. Students and faculty speculate that the body may have been a meteorite or a piece of spacecraft debris from

Fatema Tambawalla (UG '27) covers the recent update on the worker's sit-in at Ashoka University. The protest stands disbanded as AUSG members push for unionization and a GRC.

On Tuesday, 9th September 2025, the thirteenth day of the protest, at 12:25 pm, the Dean of Student Affairs (DSA) Professor Dheeraj...

As of Saturday, 6th September 2025, Ashoka University housekeeping staff’s protest continued, moving into its ninth day. As part of a series of student-organised public talks, celebrated human rights lawyer and Supreme Court advocate Colin Gonsalves spoke at 4:30 p.m., followed by a session at 5:00 p.m. by constitutional lawyer, law scholar, and author of The Transformative Constitution Gautam Bhatia. 

Tanush Guha (UG '26) and Nysa Sanghvi (UG '27) report on the ninth day of the housekeeping workers' protest.

On Thursday, 4th September, classes at Ashoka University moved out of air-conditioned rooms and into lawns, corridors, and open-air amphitheatres as students and faculty expressed solidarity with housekeeping staff who have been on strike for over a week. The faculty also released a new petition to demand withheld salaries of protesting workers.