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UGC Draft Mandates AI Literacy Modules in First-Year Undergraduate Syllabus

A University Grants Commission draft would require every first-year undergraduate programme to include a credited AI literacy module covering tool limits, data privacy and exam integrity, with implementation targeted for the 2027–28 academic session.

Harsha Vemuri హర్ష వేమూరి

Students gather near police barricades at the entrance to an IIT campus gate in Mumbai at dusk, monsoon clouds, wet pavement, no readable banners or text.

IIT Bombay Removes Dean as Crime Branch Probes Student Death

The institute stripped Suryanarayana Doolla of his deanship and apologised for earlier statements after Sahil Wakode’s death sparked campus protests and a Mumbai Police Crime Branch investigation.

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University archive reading room with cotton gloves, a bound colonial-era ledger on foam cradles, and a laptop with the screen angled away, warm desk lamp and dusty wooden shelves, no logos or readable text

Ashoka University Adds Thesis Provenance Tags for Archival History Dissertations

Ashoka University required history doctoral candidates to attach provenance tags to archival thesis chapters after a library audit found uncited scans from colonial-era repositories, tying graduation clearance to metadata that records which folio each quotation came from.

Harsha Vemuri హర్ష వేమూరి

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