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1 held for killing realtor
CBSE class XII results: Girls excel again
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EWS student scores 91.5%
Apeejay students shine
HuJI man quizzed on Jaipur blasts
Sikand Murder
CM to visit China
Scooterist dies on BRT corridor
EC firm on poll duties for women MCD teachers
B-school teachers unaware of facts: Survey
Minister bats for safety of students in Australia
Include beauticians in list of professionals: Gupta
Crime File
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1 held for killing realtor
New Delhi, May 23 Sudhir is a resident of Naharpur Roopa village in Gurgaon. He has confessed to shooting Nahar Singh. Nahar was shot outside Roseland Public School, Gurgaon, on May 1 while he was on his way to drop his children. Sudhir has disclosed that the murder was a fall out of an inter-gang rivalry in his village. He informed that one gang is led by Kaushal while, the leader of the other gang was Sudesh alias Chailu. Kaushal’s gang had shot Sudesh in December 2006. However, the gang war continues and anybody who is seen supporting either of the gangs becomes a victim. According to the accused, he belongs to the Kaushal gang. Kaushal, who is currently lodged in the Gurgaon Jail, had paid him for the killing. Sudhir used his own motor cycle for the crime and was accompanied by Rampal and Johny. It is learnt that Rampal had managed to go to jail in connection with some other case to avoid arrest in this case.
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CBSE class XII results: Girls excel again
New Delhi, May 23 DPS R.K Puram as usual has netted a booming result with 332 students out of 1,000 scoring over 90%, 393 students have scored between 80-90%. Ipsita Agarwal and Soumya Jain are the school toppers with 96.5% and other four students — Malika Davar, Divyajyoti Das, Nisha Bachani and Aditya Krishna are close with an aggregate of 96.3%. Some 20 students have scored 100% in mathematics, seven in biology, three in psychology and two in chemistry. An elated Soumya Jain says, “I never expected to top the school and, this has come as a surprise. However, my goal is to crack the IIT and the CBSE result has come as an encouragement.” He adds in a nonchalant tone, “I have been preparing for the IIT and had began my CBSE preparations just ten days before the exam. I love the way they teach at DPS and this has been a big help. It feels amazing to have topped the school.” Tanvi Saxena, topper from Amity International, Noida bagged 96.25% and is extremely thrilled with the result. “I plan to do a degree in genetic engineering from either BITS-Pillani or IIT,” says Tanvi. “I have been studying steadily through class XII and was very nervous about the result. I know I would never have managed it without my teachers. Swathi Balachandran, other Amity topper also netted 96.5% and says, “I feel pretty good about the result but the real hurdle has been the engineering tests, some of which I have taken and some I am yet to appear for. But this is an encouragement.” The result from Amity International is decent with 321 first divisions out of 326 and 236 students scoring distinctions. Sugandha Batra from Manav Sthali School has scored 95.4% and is the school topper. She plans to do a B. Com or an economics (honours) from SRCC and then appear for an MBA. She said, “I owe a lot to my school and teachers who contributed greatly towards my performance.” Manav Sthali has had a record performance with some 244 students getting over 90% marks and 957 students getting distinctions.
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EWS student scores 91.5%
New Delhi, May 23 Tabassum, a resident of Sector - 7, Rohini, was unable to pay her school fee after she was promoted to class XI due to poor economic conditions of her family. According to Ashok Agarwal, advocate and advisor of Social Jurist, an NGO, the school had asked the parents to either pay the fee or withdraw her. “The school rejected the request of the parents for grant of free education under EWS quota. The school is on the government allotted land and is bound to grant free education to EWS students to the extent of 25%. Tabassum’s mother complained to us about the non-adherence of the condition and we managed to persuade the school to grant her freeship,” Aggarwal said. Tabassum had who secured 84% in class XI. “Tabassum is an example which proves that students belonging to weaker sections can be equally talented provided they are given the opportunity,” he added. |
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Govt schools do well, earn CM’s pat
New Delhi, May 23 Government schools in Delhi have secured the highest position among government schools of all Central Board of Secondary Examinations (CBSE) regions for two consecutive years, said Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit while congratulating the directorate of education and teachers. While the result of CBSE schools has marginally increased by 0.27 per cent from 80.64 per cent to 80.91 per cent, those of Delhi government schools has increased by almost 3 per cent, the Chief Minister said. The results of the government schools have shown a marked improvement over last year. It has gone up from 82.71 per cent to 85.70 per cent. This is significant because the corresponding results of public schools as well as kendriya vidyalayas has decreased by 0.6 per cent and 2.14 per cent, respectively, Dikshit added. The number of students appearing from government schools has also gone up from 68915 in 2007 to 72253 in 2008. Seventy-three government schools have secured 100 per cent result. Last year, the number was only 46. Apart from this, 346 schools secured 90 per cent result, 485 schools 80 per cent, 582 schools 70 per cent and 613 schools secured 60 per cent result. Government schools in rural areas like SKV Prehladpur, SKV Pooth Khurd and SKV Badli have also achieved 100 per cent result. Schools in Sultanpuri and Mangolpuri resettlement colonies achieved 95 per cent result. Pass percentage in Class XII examination in 1997-98 was 63.50 per cent which has jumped to 85.70 per cent this year. It reflects the excellent performance of government schools of Delhi. A total of 72,253 students appeared this year for the senior secondary examinations. Like last year, girls have done better than boys. The overall pass percentage of boys is 80.65 per cent while that of the girls is 86.93 per cent in Delhi. The Chief Minister also congratulated students and parents for the improvement in the results.
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Apeejay students shine
New Delhi, May 23 Pooja Sriram of Apeejay School (Sheikh Sarai) scored 95.4% in commerce stream, Niharika Saini scored 94.8% in science and Tanya Bhatia scored 79.4% in humanities. Their counterparts at Apeejay School (Pitampura) Nihal Khurana scored 93.4% in science and Mansi Gupta scored 89.8% in commerce. At Apeejay School (Saket) Chandranshu Garg scored 91.6% in science and Niharika Saini scored 91.6% in commerce. Shweta Mani of Apeejay School (Noida) scored 95% in commerce and Vikram Dingra scored 93.6% in science. |
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HuJI man quizzed on Jaipur blasts
New Delhi, May 23 Iqbal was arrested on Wednesday night from New Delhi Railway and was sent to 11 days of police remand. The police is trying to ascertain his role in the Jaipur serial bomb blasts in which over 65 people were killed. According to a senior special cell official, the Rahjasthan Police questioned the accused for over ten hours. The police primarily focussed on the whereabouts of the remaining 7 kg of RDX. The HUJI had smuggled 10 kg RDX into the country. The Delhi Police had recovered three kg of RDX from the Capital yesterday at the instance of the accused. The intelligence agencies fear that the remaining RDX could have been used in the Jaipur blasts. It is anticipated that Iqbal will soon be taken to UP and other parts of the country so that the authenticity of his statements could be verified. According to a senior police official, a police team has been dispatched to certain areas in western UP to apprehend HUJI sympathizers named by Mohammad Iqbal. However, no concrete information related to the Jaipur blasts has been received.
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Sikand Murder
New Delhi, May 23 Challenging his life sentence awarded by a trial court earlier this month, Lt-Col Choudhary (retd) told the court: “There can be no bigger provocation for an army officer than to know that a man was keeping his wife before the grant of divorce.” His petition challenging the sentence is likely to be heard on Monday. Additional Sessions Judge Mamta Sehgal last month held Choudhary (72) guilty under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as Sections 3 and 4 of the Explosives Act. He was also fined Rs 10,000. The court convicted Choudhary for sending a parcel bomb that killed Sikand on October 2, 1982, at his Sunder Nagar home. According to the prosecution, Chaudhary was angry because his estranged wife had decided to move in with Sikand and the two had planned to get married. The Central Bureau of Investigation had also alleged that the bomb used in the murder was made in Pakistan and seized by the Indian Army following its victory in the 1971 war. After Choudhary was arrested and the chargesheet was filed against him, the trial began on May 31, 1984, and the process of recording evidence continued for 15 years.
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CM to visit China
New Delhi, May 23 She will be on the weeklong visit from May 25. Principle secretary P.K Tripathi and Delhi Commonwealth Games advisor R. Narayanswami will accompany her. During the seven-day stay at Beijing, the delegation will visit games’ venues such as — stadiums, lighting system on roads, sources said.
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Scooterist dies on BRT corridor
New Delhi, May 23 The chartered bus (DL IP C 0025) owned by Kashi Transport Company of Lajpat Nagar has been impounded. However, the driver of the bus managed to escape. A case under Section 279 and 304 of the IPC has been lodged. |
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EC firm on poll duties for women MCD teachers
New Delhi, May 23 Presently, teachers and other government officials have been deployed in Najafgarh, Bijwasan, Kapashera and other areas of South West Delhi for issuing photo identity cards. The job that is being carried out on phase level is to be finished by June 30. Since it is summer vacation at schools, study will not suffer. At least 2,000 voters are listed in each police station area. Each teacher will be paid Rs 2 per card. This amount is additional to the salaries given by the government. Mishra said that refusing to carry out the election duty was unconstitutional. As per the Constitution, the election commission has the power to deploy government officials on election duties. The SEC called the meeting to discuss this issue, as Mayor Arti Mehra had recently said at a MCD meeting that women teachers should be exempted from election duties. She had said that it was very difficult for them to visit each house and make a record of voters. People, generally, misbehaved with women teachers on election duty in remote areas. She had said that Delhi government teachers had not been deployed on election duties, though it is the work of the state government. Making a record for the elections is an additional job and this affects teaching at government schools, she had said.
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B-school teachers unaware of facts: Survey
New Delhi, May 23 The Assocham Study on “Faculty Awareness” surveying 258 faculty members of various institutes imparting Masters in Business Administration (MBA) across the country revealed that as many as 89 per cent of the teachers were unable to tell the GDP growth rate scaled by the Indian economy in the financial year 2006-07. The survey was conducted by the team of Assocham Research Bureau to ascertain the practical subject-knowledge and general awareness of the faculty of the various B-schools across the country. The top 30 B-schools were not included. There has been a proliferation of B-schools in the country in the last few years. The survey further divulged that hardly six per cent of the lecturers surveyed read any business newspaper on regular basis. Moreover, persistent readers of business magazines were negligible. “As the teachers themselves are ill-informed, even the students remain unaware of the real world developments keeping their degrees devoid of the real value as also aggravating the problem of talent crunch,” remarked Venugopal N Dhoot, president, Assocham. A little less than five per cent of the teachers could estimate the saving and investment rate recorded during the same fiscal. The proportion of teachers who knew the amount of exports and imports made during 2007-08 was virtually nil. Almost 92 per cent of the lecturers were not conscious of the fact that the foreign exchange reserves of the country have surpassed the $ 300 billion mark. Most of them could only recall that the forex reserves had crossed the $ 100 billion-mark. As Indian economy is increasingly getting integrated with the rest of the world, the relevance of “International Trade” as a subject has grown manifold, added Dhoot. Nonetheless, the survey found that the faculty of the subject remains uninformed about the recent happenings in the global economy. Not even 10 per cent of the teachers were aware of the existence of financial turmoil in the USA. Out of those who were aware, only one-fifth were able to define it. Furthermore, almost an equal proportion (10 per cent) of them were not conscious of the possible recession in the world’s largest economy that of the United States of America. When asked about the central bank of the US, close to 79 per cent of the teachers went blank about it. While the approximate exchange rate of Rupee vis-à-vis USD was known to almost 67 per cent of the faculty members, just about 13 per cent and 17 per cent of them knew Pound and Euro rates respectively. Most of the case studies or examples discussed in the class are outdated, as the books referred by lecturers are old editions stored in the library. A mere 11 per cent of the teachers did ever discuss the recent merger and acquisition deals in the class. As many as 91 per cent of the lecturers teaching Business Environment did not know how to read budget papers. In fact, only five per cent of the respondents could tell the fiscal and revenue deficits of 2007-08. Week-on-week inflation rate on the other hand were known to a majority of the teachers. Almost 93 per cent of them were able to recall the latest inflation figures though an approximate number (truncating the decimal part). Only a handful of teachers comprising about one-tenth of the lecturers were cognizant of the present key rates (Repo Rate, Reverse Repo Rate and Bank Rate). Since the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) has remained unchanged at 25 per cent for a relatively longer period of time, the response to SLR was far better. Almost 93 per cent of the lecturers could tell the ratio correctly.
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Minister bats for safety of students in Australia
New Delhi, May 23 Overseas Indian affairs minister Vayalar Ravi told reporters today that he had taken up with the Australian authorities the recent incidents of attacks on Indian students, mostly late at night in train stations in Sydney. The minister said he had taken up the matter with Australian high commissioner John McCarthy at that time. “Our high commission had also been in touch (with students and Australian authorities) there,” he said. Last month, there also had been a couple of cases of stabbing of taxi drivers in Melbourne, most of whom are Indian students working part-time. Many of the taxi drivers had lodged a sit-down protest in the middle of the city asking for better safety measures. Ravi said he had also taken up with the Australian authorities the case of Indian students working overtime. “The students are allowed to work 20 hours a week. So, some Indian students were arrested for working more than that. I had spoken earlier in connection with that,” said Ravi, who is also the union parliamentary affairs minister. There are about 12,000 Indian overseas students enrolled in various universities in Melbourne and many of them drive taxis part-time to support themselves and meet the increasing cost of
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Include beauticians in list of professionals: Gupta
New Delhi, May 23 Giving details, Gupta informed that the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had passed a resolution on September 6, 1973 accepting beauty parlours, doctors, lawyers, architects and engineers as home-based professionals under MPD-1962. In the new master plan, they are not included in the list of professionals. There is no ground to prohibit thousands of women earning livelihood through their home-based activities. He said it is a clear-cut violation of principle of equality enshrined in Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution. A delegation of working beauticians, a majority of whom were women belonging to the weaker sections of society met Vijender Gupta under the aegis of Sampurna, a non-government organization, and explained their position. The beauticians claimed that they are at par with professionals such as doctors, lawyers, architects and engineers. |
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Crime File
New Delhi, May 23 The four were arrested last night near DDA Park opposite Parivar Apartment in the Mandawali area. One of their associates, Chaman, managed to escape taking advantage of darkness. The arrested revealed that they along with their accomplices — Manoj Jatav, Chaman and Jitender had committed a robbery in merchant’s house in Mandawali on February 20 this year. They had looted jewellery and Rs 1 lakh cash. They further disclosed that this gang had committed two robberies in Ghaziabad, UP, on May 19. They robbed over Rs 1,15,000 and a scooter at a gunpoint from Vishal Singhal, a wholesale merchant around 8:30 p.m. After an hour, they looted Rs 18,000 from a jeweller in a similar way near the Heera Lal Hospital in Kavi Nagar police station area in Ghaziabad. Pradeep Pandey hails from Mainpuri, UP and had come to Delhi in 1989. He worked as a bus-conductor. While, Amol Gupta comes from Badaun, UP, is a graduate in commerce. He came to Delhi in 2000 for a job. He came in contact with one Parveen Kumar Pandey. Deepak Chhabra hails from Ghaziabad and is a transporter while, Sanjay Saxena worked as a property dealer. His wife is a sub-inspector in UP Police. 1 held for theft
The Roop Nagar police yesterday arrested Satish, 35, a resident of Chandrawal for theft. According to DCP (North), while complainant Vijay Kumar was sleeping in his courtyard, Satish stole his purse from the pocket of his pant that was hanging against the wall of the courtyard. Hearing the footsteps, Vijay raised an alarm. His neighbours reached the spot and caught Satish. He was later handed over to the police. |
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New Delhi, May 23
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