An Open Letter to VC Dinesh Singh

An Open Letter to VC Dinesh Singh

Respected Mr. Dinesh Singh, This letter is to congratulate you on your relentless pursuits to making Delhi University a world class university. I am fully aware that due to the “hurried” changes in the degree program, you have received more brickbats than bouquets, but this letter is an exception. It...
SOL might adopt FYUP in the next academic year

SOL might adopt FYUP in the next academic year

After a range of concerns surfacing amidst students, the School of Open Learning, popularly known as SOL might be getting the FYUP next academic year onwards. SOL or School of Open Learning is Delhi University’s solution for students who prefer distance learning. The correspondence courses from the institute are a...
Jackie Chan at China Film Festival in New Delhi

Jackie Chan at China Film Festival in New Delhi

Jackie Chan loves to sing, the movie 3 Idiots and Biryani. At the China Film Festival held in Siri Fort Complex on 18th June, the multi-faceted actor talked about fostering better ties between the two growing economies. Chan, who was here to inaugurate the first ever China Film Festival in...
Moksha Jan Utsav- bridging gaps and simplifying lives

Moksha Jan Utsav- bridging gaps and simplifying lives

Moksha Foundation is recently started, zealous organisation that aims at simplifying lives. Located in Naraina, this NGO focuses on 3 primary areas of work which are, promotion of green energy, taking up information based awareness programs and providing legal advice and medical aid to those who can’t afford it. It...
DUSU organises Delhi University's first ever Job Fair

DUSU organises Delhi University’s first ever Job Fair

The Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) organised their first ever job fair on June 11 and 12, 2013 at the Delhi University Sports Complex (North Campus).  The event saw the participation of representatives from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) and 45 private companies including Wipro, NIIT, VLCC, Convergys,...
Sports Admission Guidelines

Sports Admission Guidelines

This admission season, as per university guidelines, ECA aspirants will not get more than 15% concession from the last cutoff for a specific course in the general cutoff list. Till 2011 there was no minimum eligibility criterion for students successful in ECA trials. It is being said that putting a bar...
Open Letter from the Faculty Members of the History Department Criticizing FYUP

Open Letter from the Faculty Members of the History Department Criticizing FYUP

The Faculty members of the History Department at Delhi University recently wrote an open letter criticizing the FYUP and highlighting significant loopholes in the way in which this new undergraduate system was implemented by the University officials. Here it is: “We are in the midst of strong protests by teachers...
KMC-CIC Team wins laurels at NASA Lunabotics 2013

KMC-CIC Team wins laurels at NASA Lunabotics 2013

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) organized the Lunabotics Mining Competition in which it challenged university level students to design and build a lunar excavator, known as a LUNABOT, that can mine on lunar surface. Kirori Mal College in collaboration with Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi (whose Lunabot was...
Students, Teachers Protesting against FYUP Detained

Students, Teachers Protesting against FYUP Detained

About 150 teachers and students who had gathered to protest against the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) in Delhi University were arrested at India Gate on Monday. The protest was a peaceful candlelight protest and was organised by the Joint Action Front for Democratic Education (JAFDE). There were about 500 teachers and...
A Day in the Life of an Intern

A Day in the Life of an Intern

A Day in the Life of an Intern 7:30 am:  My eyes open most reluctantly as the alarm goes off. I hit the ‘Snooze Button’ and pretend like it never even went off in the first place. I promptly go back to sleep. 8:15 am: My mother forces me to...
DU Cut Offs 2013: What You Can Expect

DU Cut Offs 2013: What You Can Expect

Soon after the declaration of class XII board results, DU has again found a place in news. Only this time, it’s about a new course structure, amidst expectations of a rising cut off. Let’s have a glance at this year’s results. About 7231 students crossed the barrier of 95%. While...
Latest entries
French Open 2013: Another chapter in the book of Grand Slam Tennis

French Open 2013: Another chapter in the book of Grand Slam Tennis

  Irrespective of who you are and where your interests lie, everyone has their eyes set on France in the months of May and June. The movie buffs are in for a treat as they witness yet another installment of the magnificent Cannes Film Festival and the sports fanatics are busy rooting for their favourite...
What makes Robert Langdon the most impressive Harvard professor?

What makes Robert Langdon the most impressive Harvard professor?

Dan Brown, one of the most widely read authors across the globe, is back with yet another spine chilling novel. And not just any power packed thriller but another book featuring ‘Robert Langdon’, the insightful professor from Harvard who cracked the secret of the Holy Grail in the Da Vinci Code. His latest offering, Inferno,...
The Great Gatsby – Movie Review

The Great Gatsby – Movie Review

“The Great Gatsby” follows Fitzgerald’s classical work portraying Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as the narrator who leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, drinking-games and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his dream to make it big after Yale, Nick lands next door to...
Students of Law Fac Organise Protest March Against University Authorities

Students of Law Fac Organise Protest March Against University Authorities

The students of the Faculty of Law, as well as the students who are trying to take admission in the Faculty of Law, organized a huge protest march starting from the main gate of the Arts Faculty and it culminated inside the Faculty of Law. The main reason for organising this protest march was to...
Movie Review: Go Goa Gone

Movie Review: Go Goa Gone

Film – Go Goa Gone Starring – Vir Das, Kunal Khemu, Saif Ali Khan, Pooja Gupta, Anand Tiwary Director – Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK Writer’s Rating – 2.5/5 Go Goa Gone finds three hip young dudes in the throes of a quarter life crisis, facing extreme situations with more derring-do than smarts. Vir Das...
Understanding the Four-Year Undergraduate Program: Year-wise Details

Understanding the Four-Year Undergraduate Program: Year-wise Details

The recently, and hurriedly, implemented Four-Year Undergraduate Program has left prospective students seeking admission in Delhi University in a tizzy. Here we bring to you the year-wise details of the FYUP. First Year: First up, students would be required to choose a main (also called major) subject for their Bachelor’s Honours / B.Tech degree. This...
Bombay Talkies – Ajeeb Dastan Hain Yeh

Bombay Talkies – Ajeeb Dastan Hain Yeh

100 years of song and dance, technicolour expressions and the classic Bollywoody Maa came to their age. New stamps were released by the government and hordes of desi actors landed up on Cannes’ shores, finally with some half-baked reason of representing the century old Indian film industry to get their 15 seconds of limelight. In...
Reclaiming the streets: From Agenda to Action

Reclaiming the streets: From Agenda to Action

Street Vendors Dialogue with Political Leaders and Civil Society Representatives to Convert Street Vendors Livelihood Protection Bill into the Act New Delhi, 1 May: Thousands of street vendors’ representatives gathered on  International Labour Day at the” Street Vendors Dialogue with Political Leaders and Civil Society Representatives’ at the Kamani Auditorium, with the Union Minister of...
VC to Address School Students regarding the Four Year Undergraduate Programme

VC to Address School Students regarding the Four Year Undergraduate Programme

In a letter sent out to schools across Delhi, Prof. J.M. Khurana, Dean, Students Welfare, University of Delhi, on behalf of the Vice Chancellor, has invited school-leaving students to meet the VC for an admission-related interaction on Thursday, 2nd May, 10 am onward. This is probably the first public interaction that the VC will be holding, ahead of a...