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On Wednesday, 30th September, 2026, hundreds of Ashokans assembled outside the library cafe at 8:45 p.m. for a candlelight ‘Reclaim the Night’ march organised by four independent collectives: The United Students Front (USF), the Savitri Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (SAPSC), Rosa’s Reading Circle and the United Queer Forum (UQF). This march came in the wake of the recent Kalkaji temple rape incident, expressing solidarity with the protests currently taking place across Delhi

Amidst citizens’ demand for accountability and representation throughout the country, the students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have been protesting for elections to the AMU Student Union (AMUSU). On Sunday, September 20th, Yasar Fahad, a master's student at AMU, launched a hunger strike centred on the demand for the restoration of the union. Over the last 17 days, his strike has grown into a mass mobilisation, with students from different departments, residential hall

On the evening of Thursday, the 24th of September, the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) released the results of the Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) Monsoon 2026 Elections. Kriti Chhibber (UG '28) from Horizon has been elected President. Chaitanya Gupta (UG ’29), an independent candidate, has been elected as the General Secretary. Chhibber got a vote share of 43.8% and Gupta, a vote share of 39.1% (note that AUSG Elections follow the first-past-the-pos

Earlier this week, The Edict, in collaboration with the AUEC (Ashoka University Election Commission), hosted the annual AUSG (Ashoka University Student Government) candidates' debates. The debates ran across two days: Candidates for late graduates, third- and fourth-year councils spoke on Tuesday, 15th September 2026; candidates for the First Year Council (FYC) and the Young India Fellowship (YIF) spoke on Wednesday, 16th September. The decision to conduct the debates over a

What is UA, and what do they stand for? The Edict spoke with the collective’s founding members to find out.

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.

Someday, in the decades to come, there will be two groups of people in India. There will be the people who remember the student protests of the summer of 2026, and there will be the people who can say ‘I was there’. We, the reporters of The Edict, were there. Jantar Mantar has emerged as the epicenter of the nationwide student protests calling for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan since the 6th of June 2026. It was also the site for the lathi charge an

In light of the workers’ protests that took place earlier this year, the Haryana government notified a nearly 35% hike in minimum wages, effective from 1 April 2026. Under the revised rates, the daily wage for unskilled workers now stands at Rs. 582.4, for semi-skilled workers it stands at Rs. 645.41, while highly skilled workers are entitled to Rs. 747.14 per day. For the housekeeping staff at Ashoka University, the implications of this revision remained unclear; neverthele

At 6:00 pm on 20th May, 2026, the Ashoka University Election Commission (AUEC) declared the results of the 2026-27 Ashoka University Student Government (AUSG) re-elections. In an email to students, the commission announced that the required quorum of 40% had not been met for any of the seats being re-contested, including the positions of President and General Secretary, four seats on the Fourth Year Council, and one seat on the Third Year Council.“None of the elections conduc