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  • Three master plans, no clear choice

    We saw three models being proposed for redevelopment of Osmania University campus. We ask which is the best model — for biodiversity, heritage, and sports.

  • Students strategise around 75% rule

    As the University tightens the attendance leash with regular tracking and rigid enforcement, a new subculture of “calculated compliance” is emerging on campus.

  • AI integration can lead to a quiet crisis, say faculty

    “There is a significant risk that over-reliance on machines may lead to erosion of original thinking and critical analysis,” say CSE faculty.

For the Record

  • ^ College Corridors ^

    Several students union representatives of the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) were detained by the Osmania University police on Wednesday as they protested a talk by Telangana Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Lingam Sridhar on the university campus. The protest was organised ahead of Sridhar’s talk, which was held under the banner of the Bhagath Singh Youth Club. Student…

  • $ Business & the State $

    The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has postponed the implementation of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions, originally scheduled for Thursday, to a date “immediately after Deepavali”, without specifying an exact date. The MDR was to be levied at 0.4% on UPI transactions exceeding ₹2,000 at medium and large merchant establishments. Transactions related to the capital market and…

  • // Policy & Governance //

    The Union Home Ministry’s demography committee is now seeking inputs from the public and NGOs on “frequent demographic changes” that are inconsistent with fertility and mortality trends. The High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC), chaired by former Supreme Court judge P. P. Naolekar, was constituted on May 26 to study the “nature, causes and consequences of demographic changes being observed…

  • ~ Creators | Critics ~

    Critic pans The Social Reckoning for tame politics of the director The Social Reckoning, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, released this week. Billed as a follow-up to the 2010 film, The Social Network, it dramatises the 2021 Facebook leak by the whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz. Here’s the assessment of the movie by The Hindu‘s critic, Ayan Paul…

  • ?olitical Fi!e

    On Day 5 of protests in New Delhi: Protesters climbed over barricades, slogans pierced through the din of police announcements, and detention buses filled up on Wednesday as hundreds of people took to the streets of central Delhi against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The fifth consecutive day of demonstrations saw…

  • ** Media Buzz **

    More than three dozen journalists were temporarily detained and, in some cases, assaulted while covering protests against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of voter-list manipulation, in Delhi, Ahmedabad and Pune on October 10 and 11, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The non-profit organisation said that at least 39 journalists were detained in New Delhi,…