Ashoka University

We must be able to differentiate between brute forces that perpetuate casteism and humble appeals against it

Casteist slogans have been raised by the students of Haryana's Ashoka University at the campus, sparking a flood of questions and criticism on social media.

Two co-founders of the private institution Ashoka University are among three people arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged money laundering, sources said today.

The scientific board of Trivedi Centre for Political Data at the Ashoka University has announced that it is dissolving itself alleging that its founder and director Gilles Verniers was "forced to leave".

Mr Balakrishnan, a full professor in the economics department who joined the private university in 2015, on Saturday wrote to Ashoka University Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee and board of trustees chairperson Pramath Raj Sinha.

A group of faculty members of Ashoka University has written to its vice chancellor claiming that free thought within universities in India is in crisis today.

A second Economics professor has resigned at the Ashoka University alleging an "environment of fear", days after his colleague Sabyasachi Das quit amid a massive controversy over his research paper citing evidence of election manipulation.

A research paper by a faculty member of Ashoka University has landed the prestigious private university at the centre of political slugfest between the Congress and BJP.

Ashoka University co-founders Vineet Gupta and Pranav Gupta have stepped down from the boards and committees of the university, after they were named in a case involving alleged swindle of Rs 1,626 crore by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Ashoka University co-founders Vineet Gupta and Pranav Gupta, who were booked last week by the CBI in a Rs 1,600 crore fraud case, on Thursday stepped down from all boards and committees of the varsity.

Pranav Gupta and Vineet Gupta, co-founders of the Ashoka University, have been charged by the CBI for an alleged swindle of Rs 1,626 crore involving their Chandigarh-based pharmaceutical company Parabolic Drugs.

Former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian, who had resigned as a professor at Ashoka University in March this year, will join Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs as a senior fellow on July 1.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, whose resignation from Ashoka University last week reignited a discussion on the consequences of criticising the ruling BJP, wroteto protesting students, praising them for their "bracing moral clarity and deep political wisdom"

The university in Haryana's Sonipat became the centre of a controversy earlier this week, when Pratap Bhanu Mehta chose to step down as professor, saying that the founders made it "abundantly clear" that his association with the institution was a "political liability".

Ashoka University, Sonepat, has admitted that there have been "lapses in institutional processes" surrounding the exits, last week, of two top academics citing free-speech curbs. The privately-funded liberal arts institution has said it will "work to rectify" these slips "in consultation with all stakeholders". Acknowledging their eminence, a joint...

We must be able to differentiate between brute forces that perpetuate casteism and humble appeals against it

Casteist slogans have been raised by the students of Haryana's Ashoka University at the campus, sparking a flood of questions and criticism on social media.

Two co-founders of the private institution Ashoka University are among three people arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged money laundering, sources said today.

The scientific board of Trivedi Centre for Political Data at the Ashoka University has announced that it is dissolving itself alleging that its founder and director Gilles Verniers was "forced to leave".

Mr Balakrishnan, a full professor in the economics department who joined the private university in 2015, on Saturday wrote to Ashoka University Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee and board of trustees chairperson Pramath Raj Sinha.

A group of faculty members of Ashoka University has written to its vice chancellor claiming that free thought within universities in India is in crisis today.

A second Economics professor has resigned at the Ashoka University alleging an "environment of fear", days after his colleague Sabyasachi Das quit amid a massive controversy over his research paper citing evidence of election manipulation.

A research paper by a faculty member of Ashoka University has landed the prestigious private university at the centre of political slugfest between the Congress and BJP.

Ashoka University co-founders Vineet Gupta and Pranav Gupta have stepped down from the boards and committees of the university, after they were named in a case involving alleged swindle of Rs 1,626 crore by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Ashoka University co-founders Vineet Gupta and Pranav Gupta, who were booked last week by the CBI in a Rs 1,600 crore fraud case, on Thursday stepped down from all boards and committees of the varsity.

Pranav Gupta and Vineet Gupta, co-founders of the Ashoka University, have been charged by the CBI for an alleged swindle of Rs 1,626 crore involving their Chandigarh-based pharmaceutical company Parabolic Drugs.

Former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian, who had resigned as a professor at Ashoka University in March this year, will join Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs as a senior fellow on July 1.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, whose resignation from Ashoka University last week reignited a discussion on the consequences of criticising the ruling BJP, wroteto protesting students, praising them for their "bracing moral clarity and deep political wisdom"

The university in Haryana's Sonipat became the centre of a controversy earlier this week, when Pratap Bhanu Mehta chose to step down as professor, saying that the founders made it "abundantly clear" that his association with the institution was a "political liability".

Ashoka University, Sonepat, has admitted that there have been "lapses in institutional processes" surrounding the exits, last week, of two top academics citing free-speech curbs. The privately-funded liberal arts institution has said it will "work to rectify" these slips "in consultation with all stakeholders". Acknowledging their eminence, a joint...