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Ashoka University has introduced a new B.Sc. (Hons.) in Management, which will be available to students from the incoming Undergraduate Cohort of 2026 onwards. The degree will be housed under the Havells School of Management and Leadership, established following a ₹250 crore philanthropic grant announced in February 2025. The programme builds on Ashoka's existing entrepreneurship offerings, which have seen more than twelve hundred undergraduates enrol in over forty courses, w

The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) student protest erupted in June 2026 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi driven by widespread outrage over massive paper leaks and structural irregularities in the NEET-UG examination. For around thirty-seven days, student activists maintained a continuous demonstration demanding systemic testing reforms and accountability from top officials. Most significantly, they demanded the resignation of former Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. The C

The World Cup began and ended with a bang, but amid the fireworks, it left a smokescreen of whispers in its wake—those of an unfortunate future. Restrictions on the movement of entire teams, strict policing and immigration checks of professional athletes, entire nations barred from even travelling.

This year, Ashoka University introduced the Ashoka Mathematics Challenge (AMC), a new admissions pathway for applicants intending to pursue majors in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics, and similar STEM degrees, creating the university’s first discipline-specific admissions route that requires applicants to identify with a specific academic discipline before entering the university. The assessment will be available in a round of special admissions on 23rd August, 2026,

On 14th July, 2026, Ashoka University, financially supported by Dr. Amit Varma, established the Dr. Ajit Varma Centre for Planetary Health, a new transdisciplinary centre under the Trivedi School of BioSciences. The centre aims to study environmental change and human health through collaborations with three different disciplines: computer science, for health modelling through AI, Economics, for climate change evaluation, and Psychology, for studying community adaptation. Esta

At 2:00 pm on Saturday, July 25th, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced via a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he had tendered his resignation.