India, Aug. 1 -- The University of Delhi (DU) on Friday announced an increase in seats for its recently launched one-year postgraduate (PG) programmes, a demand that students and faculty have been raising for a while.

Seats in M.A. English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, M.Sc in Mathematics, and Master of Commerce have been increased from 45 to 126, an increase of 81 seats.

The number of seats in the psychology programme has been increased from 34 to 63, while those in the chemistry programme have increased from 45 to 63. The M.A. in Economics will now have 126 seats instead of its earlier 40 seats, while the seats in the M.Sc Statistics have been increased from 29 to 54.

HT had earlier reported that, on July 17, DU constitute...