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NEET leak: RSS student wing ABVP slams NTA for ‘creating distrust among students, parents’

Neelam Pandey -
‘UGC/CSIR-NET exam plagued by irregularities. Systemic issues cast serious doubt on credibility of examination system,’ ABVP said in resolution passed during national executive council meet.

St Stephen’s students are divided between backing DU intervention and first woman principal

Anushka Srivastava -
Susan Elias’s appointment was seen as a moment of change at St Stephen’s, but DU’s objection has plunged the college back into crisis.

Yet another govt scholarship under fraud cloud: CBI claims discrepancies in disability funds disbursal

Mayank Kumar -
Central agency claims, in an FIR lodged Wednesday, that Rs 11.41 crore was sanctioned to non-existent students or to fictitious or non-functional educational institutions.

Kalraj Mishra: How the BJP old-timer & Brahmin flag-bearer is stirring the political pot in UP

Prashant Srivastava -
Mishra has served twice as UP BJP president, and three terms as Rajya Sabha member. He was a Union minister from 2014 to 2017, and has been governor of Himachal and Rajasthan.

Visually-impaired student’s court battle puts end to MBBS transfer ban. ‘PwD Act can’t be decorative’

Ruchi Bhattar -
The order was a response to a petition by Sahil Arsh, an MBBS student suffering from a 40% visual impairment and denied a transfer to a Delhi college despite deteriorating health conditions due to high temperatures in Barmer.

How neo-casteists set up a symphony orchestra to make UGC equity guidelines fail

Aarushi Punia -
In the Indian education system, neo-casteism encompasses many forms of caste-based profiling, manipulation of nomenclature, political rigmaroles, and fearmongering.

New UGC rules on hold: Why Supreme Court believes they are ‘regressive’, can deepen caste divisions

Ruchi Bhattar -
Regulations exclude ragging, presume only certain castes can discriminate, petitioners argued. Bench suggests setting up expert committee of sociologists the rules.

Some OBCs were ‘dominant’ in medieval India. How history can decode the UGC controversy

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
Temples, military labour markets, and land-grant regimes structured medieval caste hierarchies. Today, access to education, employment, bureaucratic categories, and media platforms do.

Another UP officer resigns, this time in support of CM Yogi as Shankaracharya row escalates

Prashant Srivastava -
As the Shankaracharya row escalated, GST Deputy Commissioner Prashant Kumar Singh quit, citing 'moral responsibilities towards the government that pays my salary'.

New UGC rules challenged in Supreme Court, plea seeks ‘caste-neutral’ definition of discrimination

Ruchi Bhattar -
In September 2025, the Supreme Court directed the UGC to tighten anti-discrimination rules, including policies on ragging and caste bias in higher educational institutions.

On Camera

Iran player’s gun gesture was just a goal celebration. Stop projecting your politics on it

Saptak Datta -
From Gabriel Batistuta's machine-gun routine to Robbie Keane's finger-gun salute, guns aren't foreign to goal celebrations. Backlash against Iran’s Mohammad Mohebi is excessive.

ICAI to onboard 25 CA firms under PM Internship Scheme, targets 2,000 interns by year-end

Udit Bubna -
ICAI plans to engage medium and large CA firms under the PMIS, with interns likely to start joining next month. The ICAI can later open it up for everyone.

India, US, Siberia, Pakistan: 5 crashes in 3 days underline military aviation risks

Anmol Kapil -
In India, the crash involving the AN-32 transport aircraft marked the fourth major incident involving a military aircraft since the beginning of this year.

Five challenges await Modi. First, he must shake off the past and Nehru

Shekhar Gupta -
It’s a perfectly reasonable presumption that Modi will be around for a significant enough time for us to reflect on the challenges that lie ahead. I will list five.
  • Why only ABVP? What about other students organisations? Why they are not called? If govt wants an honest feedback all other student organisations should have been called.