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Not 100, but BCom cutoff at Hindu is 99.25%
In the race: This year, the university has received 1, 46,000 applications. Tribune photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui
Extortionist who threatened MLA held
Neeraj Bawana in police custody. Tribune photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui
Power stn for Mayur Vihar
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IIT Delhi to plan city’s drainage
13 kids missing from shelter home
New power rates today
Rohini sisters get Rs
1 lakh each
Four held for separate thefts
The accused of a robbery case in Janakpuri. Tribune photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui
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Not 100, but BCom cutoff at Hindu is 99.25%
New Delhi, June 25 Like every year, competition will be toughest for BCom (hons) and economics (hons) for which the cutoffs are the highest. Interestingly, this year, Hindu College and not Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) came out with the highest BCom cutoff for science students at 99.25%. Last year, Hindu College had offered BCom (hons) admissions at 95.5%-99%. But SRCC, which had last year faced criticism for setting its BCom (hons) cutoff for science students at an unrealistic 100%, chose to keep it at 96.5%-98.5%. For economics (hons), the college has kept the cutoff at 96.75-97.75%. At 96.25%-98.25%, Hansraj College also hiked its BCom cutoff by 0.25% as compared to last year's 96%-97%. At Lady Sri Ram College (LSR), the cutoffs for both BCom and economics (hons) at 97 % are the same as the last year. At Ramjas also, the BCom cutoff for the commerce students has increased by 1 %. The college has pegged its cutoff at 96%-98% as against last year's 95% to 98%. For the much sought-after English (hons), the CATE cutoffs for top colleges like LSR, Miranda House, Hindu and KMC stand at 81.75%, 80%, 84.7% and 82.4%, respectively. Even for the colleges that do not admit students for English (hons) through CATE scores, the cutoffs went higher. Gargi set its cutoff at 89%-93%, Ramjas 89.5%-95-5% and Sri Ventakeshwara College at 88-96%. In the science stream, courses like microbiology, physics and zoology have also seen a hike in the cutoffs. At Miranda House, the cutoff for physics (hons) is 95% as compared to 92 % last year. Similarly, at 96 %, Ramjas cutoff has gone up from last year's 88 %. At Hansraj and Kirori Mal College (KMC), the cutoffs for zoology (hons) have increased by 3 %. While the cutoff for the course at Hansraj is 90%, KMC cutoff stood at 88%. Sri Ventakeshwara has kept the physics cutoff same as the last year at 93.33%. But cutoffs for chemistry (hons), botany (hons) and zoology (hons) have increased by almost 2 % each at 92, 81 and 86.33 %, respectively. The cutoffs for the OBC category have also increased this year, by at least 2 to 3 % in most commerce and science courses. Unlike last year, when the admissions opened a day after the cutoffs were declared, the students who meet the requirements of the first list can approach the colleges tomorrow itself. Last year, the cutoffs were announced without submissions of the pre-admission forms which made the colleges difficult to estimate the number of applicants applying to the university. This year, the university decided to reintroduce the forms. A whopping 1.46 lakh aspirants have applied to the university this time. Admissions under the first list will continue till June 28 and the second list will be notified on June 29. While expressing his views about the Delhi University's cutoff list, JM Khurana, dean, students' welfare, said that students should not be worried about the cutoffs as this year DU would release five cutoff lists. Students should give more focus to the course rather giving preference to the college as the syllabus, degree and selection process of the professors of all the DU colleges are similar. |
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Extortionist who threatened MLA held
New Delhi, June 25 Special Commissioner of Police (law and order) Dharmendra Kumar, said, "A reward of Rs 50,000 was declared on Neeraj Bawana and his group on May 9. On June 12, the amount was increased to Rs 1 lakh." According to Kumar, Neeraj is an extortionist and active in Bawana. Some of his associates are sharp-shooters. The police said that the gang had threatened businessmen, property dealers and in one case Neeraj gave extortion calls to Narela MLA Jaswant Rana. The police raided Neeraj's several hideouts in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. But, he evaded arrest. Today at 5 am, the police was tipped-off about the whereabouts of Neeraj in Rohini. "We laid a trap near Crown Plaza Hotel in Rohini. At 6 am, we apprehended him when he was waiting to collect money from an acquaintance," said Kumar. A loaded pistol was seized from him. A case under appropriate sections of the Arms Act was registered against Neeraj at the Prashant Vihar police station. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (outer) BS Jaiswal, Neeraj confessed to his involvement in five cases of extortion. In February, he with his associates Rahul Dabbas, Manjit, alias Mangal, Naveen, alias Bali, and Rahul, alias Kala, allegedly threatened Narender Singhal, the owner of an iron factory in Bawana. Jaiswal said that the gang demanded Rs 10 lakh from him. During the same month, Neeraj and his associates fired a gun at a property dealer's office to extort money. In the first week of March, Neeraj and his gang members threatened a utensil shop owner at Bawana and demanded Rs 50 lakh. Then in the same month, he and his gang threatened Anup Goyal of Rs 3 lakh. "In May, MLA Jaswant Rana has lodged a complaint that Neeraj trying to extort Rs 50 lakh from his son," added the Jaiswal. According to the police, Neeraj is also suspected to be involved in a case in which a woman, Kamlesh, was seriously injured while Sada Singh died on the spot due to a gun shot injury. |
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Power stn for Mayur Vihar
New Delhi, June 25 To be constructed at a cost of over Rs 16 crore, the 66/11 KV substation will supply power to the fast-developing and densely populated Mayur Vihar. With an initial capacity of 50 MVA, which can be augmented to 75 MVA, the substation will provide relief to over 1 lakh people in areas like Mayur Vihar Phase III which has over 60 apartments, two colleges and two Metro stations. The substation will be the 6th grid in the Mayur Vihar area. The area already has five grids serving it. The demand in the area is presently around 150-160 MW against an installed capacity of 240 MW. With the addition of the Mayur Vihar III grid, the installed capacity for the area will increase to 300 MW, which is adequate to meet the power needs of the area for the next five years, according to BYPL officials. At present, the Mayur Vihar III area has 2, 211 KV feeders, which will increase to 32 after the commissioning of the grid. Tthe number of distribution transformers will increase from 248 to 272. |
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IIT Delhi to plan city’s drainage
New Delhi, June 25 While talking to mediapersons after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that the earlier Master Plan of Drainage was finalised in 1981. It was prepared by engaging the departmental staff. Since then a sea change had taken place in the scenario of Delhi as population and habitation had reached a level of saturation. The MPD prepared by the irrigation and flood control has to integrate it with the Master Plan 2001 of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), but instead of reviewing it, the drainage system has been upgraded in piecemeal manner from time to time by way of remodeling of some existing drainage and construction of a few new drains by various civic agencies. The DDA has notified the MPD 2021 in which a fresh approach to drainage problem is suggested, which incorporate provision of effluent treatment plants at outfall of drains, a time bound programme for augmentation and capacity revision of existing drains and proposing new drains due to fast urbanisation of the city. Dikshit said that keeping in view the fast changing scenario due to coming up of the new colonies, unplanned growth and multi-storey characteristic of expansion, in 2007 it was decided to prepare a new MPD. Further, preparation of the new drainage master plan had also become essential as the system had become too old to be repaired or revived. The instances of chocking of drains were being regularly noticed. Further, the Delhi State Spatial Data Institute or Geo Spatial Delhi Limited will provide data available with them to consultant, free of cost. Dikshit expressed confidence that new MPD would take shape to take care of the future drainage needs of the capital to make it a world-class city.
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13 kids missing from shelter home
New Delhi, June 25 The children who are missing are aged between 11 and 16 years. Missing complaints and cases of kidnapping in regard to the issue have been registered at the Mandawali police station. It is still unclear whether the children willingly ran away from the home or were abducted. The Child Welfare Committee in east Delhi has ordered an inquiry into the matter and asked the police and the authority of the shelter home to submit their reports.
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New power rates today
New Delhi, June 25 An official of the Delhi Transco Limited said that new power tariff would be announced tomorrow. There may be some hike in the new tariff. When asked about the new power tariff, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that the power regulator DERC would have to take a realistic view of the situation while finalising the new rates. "We are waiting for the DERC to announce the (tariff) order. Everybody knows about the situation. I hope the decision of the regulatory body will be based on realistic view of the current situation,'' said the Chief Minister. Justifying the demand by the private discoms to hike the tariff, Dikshit said cost of power had increased significantly in the past few years and the new rates would have to be finalised taking into consideration the ground realities. The discoms have been demanding a hefty hike in tariff, arguing that they have been incurring "huge losses" in the absence of a cost reflective tariff structure. An official of the power department said that there was no other way but to hike the tariff to ensure power supply in the city. He said that discoms demanded financial help to bailout them from their losses that the government could not do. Last year the government had given them Rs 500 crore to bail them out, he added.
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Rohini sisters get Rs
1 lakh each
New Delhi, June 25 Apart from this, a one-time pension of Rs 10,000 each has been given to the two women and their mother Nirmala by the department of women and child development of the Delhi government. The department will also give Rs 1,000 per month as pension to Neerja and Mamta and Rs 1,500 per month to Nirmala. |
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Four held for separate thefts
New Delhi, June 25 The accused is identified as Raj Bahadur a native of Kailali district, Nepal. The police recovered the money. On June 24, a police patrolling team saw Bahadur carrying the safe at Katwaria Sarai. "When the police made enquiries about the safe, he could not give a satisfactory reply. He said that on the night of June 23, he stole the safe from Mugul Restaurant," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Chhaya Sharma. During the interrogation, Bahadur said that he came to Delhi in 2011 and started working as a security guard. One month ago, he had joined this restaurant. "He said that his income was not sufficient to meet the expenses of his family. He started committing burglaries during the night. He confessed to have stolen two laptops from a students' hostel in Katwaria Sarai. One of the stolen laptops has been recovered," said Chhaya Sharma. While in another case, three persons, including a juvenile, were arrested for allegedly robbing a house in Janakpuri. They looted Rs 15 lakh and valuables during the early hours of June 21. The police said that the robbers seriously injured a 23-year-old woman. The accused are identified as Chander Bhadur alias Sandy (25), Ravi, alias Nav Raj Adhikari (25), and a juvenile. The police recovered Rs 3 lakh and 72,000. Additional Commissioner of Police (west) V Renganathan, said, "The robbers targeted the house when Akansha Rohilla (23) was alone at home. They forcible entered the house after asking for water. They injured her and robbed Rs 15,19,000, a Rado watch made of diamonds and artificial jewellery. One of them was identified as the juvenile, who worked as at the office of Akansha's father, Ashok Rohilla's office." The accused belong to Nepal and were doing petty jobs at Janakpuri.
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Suicide
New Delhi, June 25 Bharti, a Class XII student, was reportedly studying in MP nd had come to Delhi for her vacations. Bharti was reportedly under depression. The police is yet to ascertain the cause behind the suicide. as no suicide note has been found. — TNS |
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Though Delhi University colleges stood by their word and spared the students the horror of 100% cutoff in the first list announced
today
The police today arrested a 23-year-old man, who is allegedly an extortionist and has been involved in five cases of extortion, including one in which he threatened an MLA from
Narela.
New Delhi, June 25
