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On 3rd September, the Ashoka Office of Sports and Exercise formally confirmed the Squad Leaders for the academic year 2026/27. These are the new leaders of the Ashoka sports fraternity. As the biggest tournament of the Monsoon semester closes in — Surge, hosted by Shiv Nadar University (SNU) — there is no time to waste. With a solid foundation already in place, the teams’ performance at SNU will look to solidify the authority of this new generation of captains.

If Green Day were bigger fans of the SEC Batch Championships, they’d never have recorded “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” Their loss, as that glorious purpose falls to us at Edict Sports — and across five days, 17 sports, 294 Instagram stories and heaven knows how many posts on X (formerly Twitter), it was a purpose we embraced with open arms, as two-time defending Batch Champions UG2023, chasing a record-extending threepeat, were finally dethroned by the UG2025s.

Before Vidushi Malavika Sarukkai began dancing at Ashoka University’s Black Box Theatre on September 7, someone had thought about where her musicians would sit, what she would eat, how she would be received, and what the room of her performance needed to feel like.

This summer, I spent some time in Indonesia, finishing a course at a university in Yogyakarta. On the evening of June 11, as I was on a walk with a friend, I encountered a group of students in the square in front of the university. It was a demonstration, a black-feathered chicken was kept in the middle of the pavement as a part of a ceremonial gear

On Wednesday, 6th May, the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) sent out an email detailing violations of the Election Code by the United Students Front (USF) and disqualifying all candidates contesting under their banner. The AUEC statement alleged that USF had continued to put out campaign-related materials well into the silence period (which began at noon on 5th May), in direct violation of Section 7.2 of the Student Government Election Code. Meanwhile, in the ea

On 22nd March, 2026, the Black Box was covered— chairs, corners, floors and all— with viewers eager to be transported to sunny Kalokairi, curious to see what flavour the student production at Ashoka University would add to one of the most popular musicals, Mamma Mia.

Nearly a year after the arrest of Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad over his Facebook post on Operation Sindoor, the case has now effectively been brought to a close. On Monday, 16th of March 2026, the Haryana government informed the Supreme Court that it would not grant sanction to prosecute the professor, a decision that halts further criminal proceedings. The State’s decision, described in court as a “ one-time magnanimity, ” was noted by a bench led by Chi

Nethra Ramakrishnan (UG'29) reviews the expense tracker, HoR and UG Council records from the Monsoon Semester of Ashoka University Student Government. The writer filed an RTI on the SG platform on 1st February. "As per the AUSG RTI policy, expedited submissions will receive a response within 3 working days, and responses to anonymous submissions will be uploaded to the AUSG Public Information Drive within 4 working days. The RTI request has not received a response at the tim

On Friday, 6th February,2026, Dean of Student Affairs (DSA) Dr. Dheeraj Sanghi sent out an email to the student body addressing changes to the Night Entry Protocol, effective immediately.

In the early hours of Thursday, 23rd January 2026, Dr. Dheeraj Sanghi, Dean of Student Affairs (DSA) sent out an email to the student body addressing the unprecedented number of Main Gate Infractions the previous night. The email summarized the night's events, highlighting that 1500 students had left campus on Thursday night and that more than 750 had not returned post midnight. Thursday, 22nd January, was the first Thursday night since the implementation of the new main gate