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New Delhi: The competition for a seat at Delhi University is far from over. The university has opened the third round of undergraduate admissions for the 2025-26 academic session under its Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS), offering multiple pathways for students to secure or improve their placements.This phase introduces several key features, including seat upgradation, mid-entry applications, and category-based admissions. Students who secured seats in the first or second rounds can now reorder their course-college preferences in hopes of obtaining a more preferred option. The window for upgradation and preference modification was open from the evening of Aug 2 and closed at 4.59 pm on Aug 3.The results of upgraded seat allocations will be announced on August 5 at 5 pm. Colleges will then begin the approval process, which will continue until 4.59 pm on August 6. Students allotted upgraded seats must complete the fee payment by August 7, 4.59 pm to confirm their admission. The vacancy list for the next round will be published on August 8 at 5 pm.In a welcome move for late applicants, the university has opened a mid-entry window for students who missed earlier rounds. Applications for mid-entry will be accepted from August 8 to 10. This option is particularly helpful for those who were unable to register earlier due to unforeseen circumstances.Another important addition is the activation of category-based applications, allowing eligible candidates to apply under their respective reservation categories. With this phase, DU is working to make its admission process more accessible and inclusive -- providing a second chance to late applicants while also refining seat distribution for those already in the system.Looking back at the second round of seat allocations, a total of 87,335 students were offered placements across various colleges and programmes. This included 24,843 new allocations and 27,314 upgradations, indicating considerable movement from the first list. At the same time, 17,922 candidates chose to freeze their existing seats.
New Delhi: Delhi University has steadily increased its fee components over the last three years, with key funds showing significant rises since 2022. The University Development Fund has grown by approximately 67%, while the University Facilities and Services Charges have surged sharply by 200%. Meanwhile, the Economically Weaker Section Welfare Fund has increased by 150% in the same period, highlighting a consistent upward trend in student fees.Continuing this pattern, the university has revised fees again for the 2025-26 academic session. This year's hikes exceed 20% in some key components, m ...Read More >
Kolkata: More than 70 per cent of first-year undergraduate seats in West Bengal's state-run colleges are vacant even after two rounds of counselling for admission, an official said on Thursday. There are a total of 9,36,215 undergraduate seats in state-run and state-aided colleges in the state. While 4,21,301 lakh candidates had registered in the centralised admission portal, only 2,69,777 got admitted, filling up 28.81 per cent seats, he said. In comparison, last year, 4.44 lakh seats were filled, he added. In the first phase of counselling, 2.30 lakh students were enrolled, while in the s ...Read More >
Mumbai: The University of Mumbai (MU) on Wednesday announced a revised schedule for pre-admission online registration for undergraduate admissions for the academic year 2025-2026. This decision comes after three merit lists were already published under the original schedule and is aimed at giving an opportunity to students who failed to complete their registration in time. Students will now be able to register online for admission between 6 and 10 June 2025 through the university's official website at https://mu.ac.in/admission. The university has clarified that applications submitted during ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The Supreme Court has said money cannot be recovered by filing an FIR and seeking help of police as it quashed a cheating case against the producer of Bollywood movie "Tanu Weds Manu". A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan expressed displeasure over the approach of the Allahabad High Court in dealing with the petition of producer Shailesh R Singh for quashing of the FIR against him by complainant Kunal Jain. "Money cannot be recovered, more particularly, in a civil dispute between the parties by filing a first information report and seeking the help of the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI) The Delhi University has confirmed 67,582 admissions in the third round of undergraduate seat allocation, the data shared on Wednesday revealed. The university said allocations for Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA), sports and Children/Wards of University employees (CW) categories will be made public on August 15. The total number of allocations in the latest round stood at 7,061, including those enrolled in performance-based programmes. DU opened its mid-entry admissio ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 9 (PTI) The talent and capability of today's graduates will take the country to new heights on the global stage, said Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday, while speaking at the 18th convocation of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU). "Today's graduates are the real drivers of Viksit Bharat," she said at the event held at the university's East Delhi campus in Surajmal Vihar. A total of 26,649 degrees were conferred on students, including 124 PhDs, 11 MPhils, 2,873 postgraduate, 22,455 undergraduate, 477 MBBS and 709 MD/MS and DM/MCh degrees. Universit ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Two days after a law student died and his friend suffered critical injuries when a car knocked them down as they stood near railing on the service lane of Delhi-Jaipur highway in the early hours of Tuesday, a civil engineer was arrested on Thursday.Mohit (31), an employee of a private company in the city, told police that he got drowsy while driving. He is staying at a PG facility in Sector 14.The student who died, Harsh Singhal (25), was a resident of Om Nagar colony. His friend Abhishek Kumar (23), who is from Shanti Nagar in Sector 11, is undergoing treatment at a private hospital ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jul 4: Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha Friday said that he was proud to see women breaking barriers in agricultural sciences and technology. In his address at the 6th convocation ceremony of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir (SKUAST-K), the LG said, "Proud to see our daughters breaking barriers and achieving success in Agricultural Science and Technology. It reflects a bright future for J&K and the nation." During the convocation, of the 5250 degrees of undergraduate, master's, and PhD, 2661 degrees were awarded to women, of the 150 stu ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Thursday took strong action against the police officers allegedly responsible for the Bengaluru stampede, suspending several high-ranking officials, including the city's police commissioner. Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also announced a one-man commission to probe the lapses that triggered the deadly stampede. "Cubbon Park Police Station police inspector, station house master, station house officer, ACP, Central Division DCP, cricket stadium in-charge, additional commissioner of police, commissioner of police have been susp ...Read More >
Mumbai : Tesla's long awaited India debut finally took place with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurating its showroom in Mumbai on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-led car maker unveiled its Model Y compact all-electric SUV at its 'Experience Centre' in Bandra-Kurla Complex with the CM describing it as the "right city and the right state" for the launch."Mumbai stands for innovation and sustainability. In 2015, when I went to the US, I had my first ride in a Tesla, and then I thought we need such a vehicle for mobility in India. But it took 10 years for it to come to India. But we are very happy ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 7 (PTI) The Maharashtra government has approved the rollout of four-year undergraduate programmes, introducing honours and honours with research degrees from the 2026-27 academic year in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The decision aims to bring uniformity and ensure effective implementation of the revised four-year undergraduate structure across all public universities, and affiliated as well as autonomous colleges in the state. According to a government resolution (GR) issued on Monday, the four-year undergraduate programme will be structured into eight seme ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: In a landmark decision, the Odisha government on Saturday enhanced the reservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students and introduced a quota for the Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) in medical and technical education. The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi here. "While the quota for the ST students is raised from 12 per cent to 22.50 per cent, it has been enhanced from 8 per cent to 16.25 per cent for SCs. The state government has introduced an 11.25 per cent quota for OBC students, who are known ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: In a major step toward promoting social justice and equitable access to education, the Odisha Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Majhi, approved a revised reservation policy for admissions to medical, engineering, and other professional and higher education courses late on Saturday. The policy introduces an 11.25% reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) in these streams for the first time. It simultaneously raises the quota for Scheduled Tribes (ST) from the previous 12% to 22.50% and for Scheduled Castes (SC) from 8% to 16.25%. This brings the o ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Delhi University has issued a notification allowing students enrolled under the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) to exit the course after completing the third year with a degree, marking a major step in the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The official notification issued on Thursday states that students who have successfully completed six semesters (three years) under the UG Curriculum Framework 2022 are eligible to exit with a three-year degree - a general degree for multi-core discipline programmes or an Honours degree for single-core discipline ...Read More >
KOCHI: Justice N Nagaresh of the Kerala High Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the suspended Kerala University registrar describing "Bharat Mata" as "a lady holding a saffron flag" in the petition challenging the disciplinary action against him. Registrar K S Anil Kumar was suspended by the vice-chancellor in-charge for cancelling permission for a June 25 event scheduled to be attended by Governor Rajendra Arlekar. He had cited the display of a controversial image of "Bharat Mata" carrying a saffron flag on the dais at the Senate Hall, Thiruvananthapuram as the reason for withdrawing ...Read More >
Based on the number of seats available at the college, Advocate Jeetender Gupta stated that it should reserve at least 47 seats for the ECA/sports quota. The Delhi High Court on Friday requested details from Hindu College, located in the capital, regarding the seats allocated under extracurricular activities (ECA) or sports quotas for the academic year 2025-26, reported PTI. Justice Vikas Mahajan instructed the college administration to reserve a seat under the quota for the 2025-26 academic ye ...Read More >
New Delhi: It's the same story every year. A centralised admission test that was meant to reform India's higher education system has instead plunged it into repeated cycles of uncertainty.Since its rollout in 2022, the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) -- now mandatory for undergraduate admissions in central universities -- has consistently failed to release results on time, throwing academic calendars into disarray, overburdening faculty, and leaving lakhs of students in prolonged limbo.The delay is not just administrative -- it's academic, emotional, and financial. For three consecutive ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi University is set to open a physical mop-up round of admissions to fill over 7,000 vacant undergraduate seats. Admissions in this round will be made on the basis of Class XII marks. The decision was taken at the Executive Council (EC) meeting on Friday. Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh suggested that admissions be provided directly by colleges through spot admissions, a proposal that was approved by the EC. Singh said the mop-up round will ensure colleges do not carry forward large n ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Apr 4 (PTI) In a landmark decision, the Odisha government on Saturday enhanced the reservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students and introduced a quota for the Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) in medical and technical education. The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi here. "While the quota for the ST students is raised from 12 per cent to 22.50 per cent, it has been enhanced from 8 per cent to 16.25 per cent for SCs. The state government has introduced an 11.25 per cent quota for OBC students, wh ...Read More >
The number of seats reserved for scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) students in medical, engineering, higher and technical education courses has almost been doubled in Odisha, with the state government making major changes in the reservation policy. In a late-night cabinet decision Saturday, the BJP government in Odisha increased reservation of seats in medical, engineering, and other higher/technical education courses in Odisha. It also approved reservation of seats in these courses for students belonging to backward classes. According to officials, seats reserved for ST students ...Read More >
New Delhi: Ananaya Jain (17)from Ludhiana in Punjab scored in the 100th percentile in four out of five subjects in this year's national entrance test for admissions to universities, becoming the only one among the over 10.71 lakh students who took the exam to achieve this mark, the National Testing Agency (NTA ) said on Friday. Announcing the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduates (CUET-UG) results for 2025, NTA said 17 students scored in the 100th percentile in three subjects, 150 in two subjects, and 2,679 in one subject . Among them is Arjav Jain (17) from east Delhi's Krishna ...Read More >
New Delhi: As an alternative to the regular admission route through the Common University Entrance Test (CUET), students applying to Delhi University (DU) for the 2025-26 academic session can also explore another option: undergraduate seats available under 10 supernumerary quota categories.These provisions allow candidates from diverse and often under-represented backgrounds to access higher education. The categories include nominees from Sikkim, orphans, children of armed forces personnel, single girl children, persons with disabilities, and students with exceptional achievements in sports or ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 7 (PTI) The Maharashtra government has approved the rollout of four-year undergraduate programmes, introducing honours and honours with research degrees from the 2026-27 academic year in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The decision aims to bring uniformity and ensure effective implementation of the revised four-year undergraduate structure across all public universities, and affiliated as well as autonomous colleges in the state. According to a government resolution (GR) issued on Monday, the four-year undergraduate programme will be structured into eight seme ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi University's academic council on Friday approved a new general elective course on Sikh martyrdom, draft guidelines for undergraduate research, and several new skill-based courses, including one on radio jockeying. A proposal to allow students to earn a portion of their course credits online through the govt's SWAYAM platform drew objections from some teachers and was referred to a committee for further review.The new general elective, "Sikh Martyrdom in Indian History (c.1500-176 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 5 (PTI) The Congress on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the proposal to increase Lok Sabha seats, saying he is "bulldozing" the move that will work more to the benefit of larger and populous states and is nothing but a "Weapon of Mass Distraction (WMD)". The opposition party also alleged that the prime minister is "hoodwinking" the people of the country and is making misleading statements that are meant to deceive. In a post on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said, "The PM is upto his usual tricks of m ...Read More >
New Delhi: The University of Delhi announced on Saturday that the second phase of its undergraduate admission process under the Common Seat Allocation System (UG)-2025 (CSAS-UG) will commence from July 8. According to a press release issued by the university, candidates who have completed the first phase must log in to their dashboard at ugadmission.uod.ac.in to fill in their preferences for programme and college combinations. The preference-filling window will remain open till 11:59 pm on July 14. Once the deadline ends, the preferences will be auto-locked. Candidates who are yet to regist ...Read More >
The candidates, who have been allotted seats, are required to "accept" the seat by 4:59 pm on July 21. | File Image The Delhi University on Saturday released the first seat allocation list for undergraduate admissions for the academic session 2025-26, kickstarting the final phase of the Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS). The list, published at 5 pm, by the university includes allocations for 71,624 seats across 79 undergraduate programmes offered by 69 colleges. The candidates, who have bee ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Apr 4 (UNI) The Odisha Cabinet on Saturday approved a major revision in the state's reservation policy for admissions to medical, engineering, and other higher and technical education courses, benefiting students from Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC). Briefing reporters after the cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced that reservation for ST students in technical, professional, medical, and allied courses will increase from 12 percent to 22.5 percent, while SC students will see their quota r ...Read More >
The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi here. "While the quota for the ST students is raised from 12 per cent to 22.50 per cent, it has been enhanced from 8 per cent to 16.25 per cent for SCs. The state government has introduced an 11.25 per cent quota for OBC students, who are known as SEBC in Odisha," Majhi told reporters after the meeting. He said this new reservation system will be implemented across universities, their affiliated colleges ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: In a significant policy shift aimed at aligning affirmative action with demographic realities, the Odisha government has enhanced reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) while introducing, for the first time, a quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) -- officially termed Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBCs) -- in higher education. The decision was approved at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Saturday evening. Under the revised framework, reservation for Scheduled Tribes has been nearly doubled -- from 12 per ...Read More >