Sammaira Mittal

This year, Ashoka University has dissolved its Student Care Office (SCO), bringing counselling, psychiatric consultations and YourDOST services under the Ashoka Centre for Well-Being (ACWB). The change ends a period in which mental health support was managed across separate offices. ACWB traditionally handled counselling, while the SCO, which operated under the Dean of Student Affairs (DSA), dealt with students in acute distress and coordinated services including psychiatric care and external...

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, with nearly...

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 Chief Justice of...