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DU admission schedule out
DU to hold centralised trials for sports quota applicants
Open days from May 15 to 23
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Schoolgirls attacked with razor
Student stabbed to death by college mates
Delhi criminal held for cloth trader’s murder
International Nurses Day
MCD to seal illegal cell towers
They pledged snatched chains for loan
Wanted man held with 64 cartons of spurious liquor
Lockers of air hostess under scanner yield huge wealth
CM suggests panel to name Metro stations
Noida allottees’ plots not to be cancelled
JNU students burn effigies of
khap panchayats
14 shops burgled in Sadar Bazar
Custody of Ghandy’s aide extended
Exporter robbed
Spurned, man throws acid on girl
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DU admission schedule out
16 centres to sell forms DU would put up 16 admission information centres in different parts of the city for sale and receipt of the common pre-admission forms and information bulletin for 2010-11. North Campus Office of Dean Students’ Welfare, Kirorimal College, Faculty of Arts and Swami Shradhanand College. South Campus Office of Deputy Dean Students’ Welfare, Deshbandhu College,
A.R.S.D. College, Gargi College, P.G.D.A.V. College and College of Vocational Studies. East Delhi Shyam Lal College, Vivekananda College and Maharaja Agrasen College. West Delhi Rajdhani College and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College Central Delhi Zakir Husain College The common pre-admission form can be deposited at one of the admission information centres irrespective of the college a candidate is applying for.
New Delhi, May 11 The number of seats has increased this year from last year’s 49,000 as DU gets ready to fully implement 27 per cent OBC reservation this time round after increasing its total seats in a phased manner since 2008. “The admission would commence just a few days after the CBSE results are out and forms for regular undergraduate courses would be sold and received from May 28 to June 11 between 10 am and 1 pm,” DU’s vice-chancellor Deepak Pental announced today at a media conference. The first admission list by colleges would be out on June 22 and successful students could take admission from June 23 to June 25. The second admission list would be out on June 26 followed by the third cut-off list on July 1. The colleges left with vacant seats would come out with a forth list on July 6. The admission of students in the second list would be done between June 28 and June 30 while it would be between July 2 and July 5 for students named in the third list and July 7 and July 9 for those in the fourth list. The admission lists for evening colleges would follow the same dates with the only change being that they would be announced at 4 pm. The last date of admissions this year is August 6 while admission to those seats converted from vacant OBC seats by the colleges after August 6 would end on August 16. The last date of admission with “condonation of delay” by the vice-chancellor is August 31. The admission schedule begins and ends earlier this year compared to last year when it had started on June 16. Apart from the common admission application form, students could fill in the separate individual forms for the colleges which have some specific conditions. The university administration has also decided to make the SC-ST admissions transparent this year by putting the total number of seats available per college on a LCD display right outside their admission centres in Arts Faculty Building, DU North Campus and the room number of 116 Arts Faculty South Campus of DU. The admissions to English (hons.) courses in some colleges would be taken through Combined Aptitude Test for English (CATE). The colleges which are covered under CATE this year are Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Hindu College, Indraprastha College, Kamla Nehru, Maharaja Agrasen, Ram Lal Anand College (evening), Satyawati College (evening), Shivaji College, Shyam Lal College, Swami Shradhanand College, Zakir Husain College, Zakir Husain College (evening), Lady Shri Ram College, Miranda House, Bharti College, Shadeed Bhagat Singh and Deshbandhu College. In a fix over semester system
The DU administration is in a fix over the implementation of the semester system in undergraduate courses. Pental said a decision could only be taken after the Academic Council meeting. DU is a large university and implementing the system may take time. “Our university depends on inter-disciplinary teaching and it becomes difficult if one whole department refuses to adopt a particular system, but the semester system should be implemented to make DU a global educational institute,” he said.
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DU to hold centralised trials for sports quota applicants
New Delhi, May 11 Official sources told The Tribune that they had been receiving complaints against various colleges that the managements gave admissions in an opaque manner, leaving many applicants and their families wondering if there was something fishy. The DU administration has decided to formulate a central team of coaches and experts in different games who would hold trials at the university level, reducing the individual colleges’ discretion in the matter to the minimum. “The admission procedure remains the same, but candidates applying under the sports quota would appear for trials at the university level where they would be graded,” said Novy Kapadia, deputy proctor, DU. Students applying under the category would be graded on 25 points, subject to their performance in a particular game and their performance certificates would also be accounted for. The university would most likely hold centralised trials from June 14 to 19 at various colleges on the South Campus except for sportspersons from squash, tennis and basketball; trials for them would be held at the North Campus colleges. “The minimum required score to apply for any college is 40 per cent out of total 25 points,” said Kapadia. The sports quota candidates would now have to apply in individual colleges and then take part in centralised trials to get their grades. With the centralised grades, the candidates could go back to the college of their choice and take admission if the college offers the seats at that grade. Colleges would have a right to choose amongst the candidates on offer. For example, if a college wants to take a football goal-keeper who has lesser grade than a striker, the college could exercise its choice and admit a goal-keeper. The DU colleges give 60 per cent weightage to the trails and sports certificates for sports quota admissions and academic record makes up for the rest 40 per cent. |
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Open days from May 15 to 23
New Delhi, May 11 Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College in Karmapura would hold assistance camp on May 18 while Zakir Husain College at Jawaharlal Nehru Marg would hold the session on May 19. Further, S.P.M College in Punjabi Bagh (west) would hold the session on May 20 and Shyam Lal College in Shahadara on May 21. Acharya Narendra Dev College in Kalkaji would have an open day on May 22. The last open day session would be conducted by Keshav Mahavidyalaya in Pitampura on May 23. The university councilors
would be available at the centres on the respective days to clear
all queries.
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Schoolgirls attacked with razor
New Delhi, May 11 According to police, the incident took place around 11.30 am outside a photostat shop located in a market behind the school premises. The razor attack was so severe that the injured girls Ritika (17) and Tanvi (16), both students of class XII, had to get 42 and 35 stitches respectively on their upper arms. The robber, a young man in his early twenties, was on a motorcycle and, according to girls, was following them for quite some time in the market. As per Chanakyapuri police station sleuths, the two girls who were appearing for their semester exam had come to the market around 11 am to get some study material photocopied. “The girls had a cold drink and after getting the papers photocopied, they were walking towards the school. In the meantime, this man intercepted them and demanded the gold chains and earrings the girls were wearing. Even as Tanvi was taking off her earrings, the man attacked her with a sharp blade attached with a handle and snatched Rs 500 and mobile from Ritika’s hand before hitting her with the razor,” said a police official close to investigation. According to him, the girls could not note down his motorcycle number as they were in a state of shock to even shout for help. A flower vendor saw the girls bleeding and after tying clothes on their arms, he took them to school in an autorickshaw. The girls were later taken to RML Hospital. Carmel Convent School is an elite all-girl school and has children of many rich businessmen studying in the school. According to information, while Ritika is resident of East of Kailash, Tanvi comes from Gurgaon and her father Rajan Manchanda is an exporter. Speaking to media, Rajan refrained from putting school at fault for the incident. “They had to get some study material photocopied and took permission from the teachers to go outside. They are senior students and are responsible enough,” said Rajan. He said that Tanvi can identify the person if brought before her. Meanwhile, police has lodged a case and is investigating the matter. According to a senior police official, Tanvi and Ritika were taken to the incident spot after the first-aid. “The matter is being investigated. We took the girls to the spot and are working on some clues,” said the police official. |
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Student stabbed to death by college mates
New Delhi, May 11 The victim has been identified as Honey Singh, a second year student of Ashoka School of Hotel Management. Three students, Maninder, Charan and Saurabh have been arrested while their three friends are absconding. “Honey had an argument with these students near the institute yesterday evening. It was related to some girl student. He returned to his residence later. The six students approached him then and after arguing, stabbed him. He died on the spot,” said a police official. According to information, when friends and relatives of Honey came to know about the incident, they reached the house of these boys and after beating them, handed over the three to the police. The three other culprits, Raju, Narender and Himanshu managed to flee. Honey is the only son of the family and his father had died seven years ago. |
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Delhi criminal held for cloth trader’s murder
Ghaziabad, May 11 The arrested man, Salim, is wanted in around 20 cases by various police stations, the police said.Soon after his arrest late in the night, Salim fell ill and he had to be admitted to the Yashoda Hospital in Ghaziabad. SSP Raghuvir Lal questioned Salim, who claimed he was innocent. But according to the police, Salim changed his version a number of times during interrogation. He said Rakesh was a cheat who had deceived many people of lakhs of rupees. Salim said he had also given Rs 9.5 lakh to Rakesh. On March 29, Rakesh had called him to a party in Meerut for returning the money. Rakesh, he said, took him to the Brij Vihar area in his Maruti car. There they met three men from Meerut. They drank bear together and got tipsy. The next morning he got to know that Rakesh had been murdered, Salim told the police. According to SSP Lal, Salim is a resident of Delhi and had been arrested on the basis of his phone call details. The SSP said he was lying that he fell unconscious on the night of the murder because his phone records show that he called up many people on that night. Rakesh’s body was recovered from beneath a Maruti car in the Sihani Gate police station area on March 30 this year. He had been stabbed to death. He was a resident of Laxmi Nagar, Delhi. |
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International Nurses Day
New Delhi, May 11 Taking a note of this, doctors and nursing organisations like the Malayalee Nurses’ Welfare Association have urged the government and the private health care facilities to prioritise the safety aspect of nurses that has very often exposed them to blood-borne pathogens such as Hepatitis B and C virus and HIV virus. However, no specific data on the matter has been there as most of the cases go unreported even though globally it is estimated that the nurses account for 44 per cent of health care workers who are a victim of needle stick injuries. On the eve of the International Nurses Day, Padma Shri Dr K.K. Aggarwal has appealed to all health care set-ups to make effective policies to safeguard the interest of nurses. “Due to accidental blood exposure, nursing staff remain at constant risk of at least 20 diseases. Besides the nursing staff, the other people who are at high-risk include laboratory staff, physicians, hospital housekeepers and other health care workers,” Dr Aggarwal said. He added that the majority of the needle stick injuries occur in the operating room (23 per cent) followed by the patient room (18 per cent), emergency room (15 per cent), and procedure room (11 per cent). |
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MCD to seal illegal cell towers
New Delhi, May 11 The municipal commissioner has asked them to initially focus on cell towers erected without permission from MCD. The unauthorized cell towers were given one month to obtain permission from MCD following formulation and subsequent implementation of the new policy for cell towers. Those who have not availed themselves of the opportunity are now liable to face prosecution. There are 5,364 cell towers within MCD’s jurisdiction. Out of these, 2,412 cell towers have been erected with permission from MCD. The number of cell towers erected without permission from the Municipal Corporation comes to 2,952. The corporation has already issued show cause notice in case of 1,532 cell towers. It has already sealed about 300 towers in the past few months. Forty-one cell towers were desealed on compliance of formalities. In an office order, the chief town planner, MCD, said that the applicant for the cell towers was required to submit a copy of agreement between building owner and company of the mobile service provider to the MCD. In case of municipal building, no objection certificate (NOC) from the head of the department is to be submitted. The application should be signed by an architect registered with the Council of Architecture. The order said that towers can be erected in all municipal buildings, including community centres, except school buildings, hospitals and dispensaries. It also requires clearance from the Airports Authority of India, DUAC, chief fire officer, ASI and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. |
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Hot, humid day forecast for today
New Delhi, May 11 “The sky would be partly cloudy but will become clear during the course of the day. There is no prediction of rain as of now,” said an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official. The national Capital witnessed a humid today as the maximum temperature was recorded at 41 degree, while the minimum settled at 27.5 degree Celsius. “It is anyhow very hard to travel outside and today it was even hotter indoors. We live on the top floor in our building, and the heat is only becoming intolerable day after day,” said Ronisha, a Delhi university student. |
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They pledged snatched chains for loan
New Delhi, May 11 According to Chhaya Sharma, DCP (outer), after snatching gold chains, these men would pledge them with a finance company for loans. The accused have been identified as Rajender Prasad Bharti (25), Ravi Sharma (24), Sajid Ali (19), Sahil (19) and Saurav Sharma (25). The police has recovered one Maruti-800 car, one Maruti van, one Tata Indigo car and three motorcycles at their instance. “The gang would target old women. They also stole bikes for committing crime and unattended cars at parking lots for joyride. Following a unique modus operandi, the gang members used to pledge the snatched gold chains with Muthoot Finance and obtain loan in lieu of them. Five such receipts have been recovered from their possession,” said Sharma. |
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Wanted man held with 64 cartons of spurious liquor
New Delhi, May 11 According to the police, 64 cartons of spurious liquor and an Opel Astra car used for the transportation of the liquor were seized from Sashi. According to H.G.S. Dhaliwal, DCP (south), the arrest came following investigation of several complaints received by the police about a gang supplying spurious liquor to various parts of Delhi and even government liquor vends. “It was reported that these persons also have contacts with government wine shops and they supply liquor to these shops at cheaper rates. Based on the information, a police team was constituted that arrested Shashi red-handed while coming from Gurgaon with spurious liquor,” said Dhaliwal. As per Dhaliwal, 44 cartons of country-made liquor and 20 cartons of a brand of whisky were recovered from his car. On interrogation, Sashi revealed that he was going to supply this liquor to the Sangam Vihar area. “Shashi supplies spurious liquor to bootleggers in all parts of Delhi. He has been doing this for the past six-seven years. He used to sell liquor from his residence in Sangam Vihar. He is wanted by the Sangam Vihar police station and has previously been involved in 43 cases— 39 cases under the Excise Act, one under the Arms Act and three cases under the IPC,” confirmed
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Lockers of air hostess under scanner yield huge wealth
New Delhi, May 11 A CBI spokesperson said a locker in her name at a bank in New Delhi has yielded jewellery weighing 150 gm. Besides, foreign currency was also found in the locker— US $ 4477, AUS$ 1,200, Euro 1,120, UAE Dirhams 100, Omani Rial 17,400, Malaysian Ringett 14 and Thai Baht 13,980. Another locker hired by her along with a colleague yielded Rs 67.50 lakh. The CBI said Puri’s total assets and expenditure is Rs 4,99,54,478 against her income of Rs 1,36,79,700. Her alleged illegal assets amount to Rs 3,62,74,778. Though the CBI is tightlipped about the case officially, sources said the agency stumbled upon her riches while investigating O.Ravi, the joint-secretary with the home ministry, who had been arrested two weeks back in a graft case. Whether he had any link with Puri is not yet certain, sources said. |
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CM suggests panel to name Metro stations
New Delhi, May 11 She said at a meeting with parliamentary secretary Anil Bhardwaj who demanded the renaming of Ashok Park station on Inderlok-Mundka route. The Chief Minister stated that a number of names of existing Metro stations are not being liked by the local residents. Bhardwaj demanded that the name of Ashok Park station on Inderlok-Mundka route be changed to Rampura Ashok Park as the station is close to Rampura which has a separate municipal ward with this name. Bhardwaj handed over a representation to the Chief Minister in this connection which was forwarded to the DMRC for appropriate action. |
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Noida allottees’ plots not to be cancelled
Noida, May 11 Dy CEO Noida Anil Raj Kumar issued order to this effect after a representative delegation of these allottees met him on Monday. They told him that plots of 2004 residential scheme applicants were allotted in 2008 at rates four times higher than the original rates. The allottees had already deposited 30 per cent of the previous rates. In such circumstances, their allotment should not be cancelled, they pleaded. The Dy CEO then ordered the department concerned not to cancel the allotment. The whole case is being reviewed, he said. The delegation included some state Congress leaders. |
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JNU students burn effigies of
khap panchayats
New Delhi, May 11 Students under the banner of Justice for Nirupma and Students’ Federation of India (SFI) gathered at the Ganga Dhaba of the university and burnt effigies of INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala and Congress MP Naveen Jindal also. “We strongly criticize the political leaders who are extending their support to these unconstitutional panchayats which are executing young couples,” said P.Anand, JNU president, SFI. Students of JNU have been organising protests against the “honour killing” of journalist Nirupma Pathak. The students said criminal activities undertaken by the khap panchayats in north India must be stopped by the intervention of the home minister. “The ridiculous demand of amending the Hindu Marriage Act should not be given any heed as the demands of the panchayats are in contradiction to the fundamental right to choice of an adult,” said Rohini Raman, an M.Phil. student. |
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14 shops burgled in Sadar Bazar
New Delhi, May 11 According to Sadar Bazar police station officials, the incident came to light this morning when the shop owners reached the market. The burglary was reported from 14 shops located in a three-storeyed Sri Ram Market, situated on Bahadurgarh Road. "There are around 22 shops in this market and except the shops located on the ground floor, locks of all the shops were broke open. The shopkeepers gave us various figures about the missing money from their cash boxes. It seems the burglars took away only cash," said a police official, adding that a case has been registered . There are no CCTV cameras fitted in the market and the burglars possibly took advantage of this fact. |
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Custody of Ghandy’s aide extended
New Delhi, May 11 Joshi was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh anti-terrorist squad from Kanpur.He was brought
to Delhi and also interrogated by the special cell of the Delhi policee. Joshi allegedly slipped out the hard disk of the laptop seized from Ghandy. Joshi has
allegedly helped Ghandy in establishing a Maoist base in Delhi and procured fake identity card for
him. — TNS |
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Exporter robbed
New Delhi, May 11 Afsana (28) was alone at her house when the robbers entered the house. Her husband Nasir is an exporter and was in his office when the incident took place. “The robbers took Afsana hostage at knifepoint and took keys from her. When she resisted their robbery bid, they tied her to the bed. Later, they decamped with the cash and jewellery,” said the police. Afsana was untied by her uncle who reported the matter to police. |
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Spurned, man throws acid on girl
New Delhi, May 11 “The victim Jyoti works in a beauty parlour and was waiting for her bus when brother-in-law of her cousin approached and proposed to her. However, when she refused to pay any attention, he threw acid on her and fled ,” said the police. The accused Pradeep is absconding ever since. |
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