New Delhi, June 20
As St Stephen's today announced its cut-off list for eight undergraduate courses under the Four Year Undergraduate Programme, the shift as it appeared was a marginal (.25) as in Economics to slightly substantial in some of the courses.

In any case all those who are keen for admission would have to take a note of the riders that come for admissions to the preferred courses such as Economics, English and Mathematics for which Maths should be one among the best four subjects in Class XII exams.

The cut off for Economics was highest for commerce at 98 per cent in best of four subjects and 96.75 per cent for science and 96.5 per cent for humanities discipline, respectively.

Coming to English the second most popular course this year, which received 5,956 applications and its cut off being in the high range with 98 per cent for commerce students, 97 per cent for science and 95.75 per cent for candidates of humanities stream in the general category.

The riders that come with cut off for Economics and English are, at least, 85 per cent in Maths for general category candidates for Economics hopeful and 90 per cent in English core and 85 per cent in elective English under the unreserved category. Similar riders have been placed for reserved categories though at a lower level of percentage.

With a total of nearly 6,469 students applying this year for Economics, the cut off for students under the SC/ST category stood at 93 per cent for commerce students and 91.75 per cent for both science and humanities candidates.

For philosophy, students have to have at least 95 per cent in the best four subjects at Class XII in the general category, with those from commerce stream and belonging to general category need to have 96 per cent in the best four while for the SC/ST category candidates the cut off stood at 91 per cent for commerce and 90 per cent each for science and humanities streams.

For Chemistry, the cut off remained at 96 per cent for the general category while 91 per cent for both the SC/ST students and those students who have applied for Physics can be hopeful of bagging a seat, if they qualify the cut off which is 96.33 per cent for general category, 89.33 per cent for the SC/ST categories, respectively.

New Delhi, June 20
The water level in the Yamuna today started receding and was recorded at 206.50 m at 5 pm, said officials in the Delhi Government.

Owing to very large and unprecedented release of water from Hathnikund Barrage by Haryana, a record level of the Yamuna was reached yesterday. More than 10,000 flood victims have been evacuated from the low-lying areas and are camping in around 1,153 tents set up at different locations.

As the flood waters has started receding, there may be increased likelihood of spread of water-borne diseases like cholera, dysentery, etc., and sharp rise in of breeding of mosquitoes, which may further lead to diseases like malaria, dengue, etc.

The Revenue Secretary, Dharam Pal, today chaired a high-level meeting which was attended by the Principal Secretary (Health), SCL Das, commissioners of three municipal corporations and heads of health and sanitation wings.

The issue of minimizing apprehensions of outbreak of disease in the camp was discussed in length like typhoid and cholera and air-borne diseases like chickenguinea, malaria and dengue. "It was decided that anti-malaria spray would be undertaken in the camps, fumigation against mosquitoes once in a day and chlorine bottles would be provided to flood affected families to store drinking water and to keep it safe for drinking," said a senior official in the Delhi Government.

In order to eliminate larvae around camps suitable spray would be undertaken. The health department and the three civic agencies have been directed to maintain cleanliness and sanitation around camps to avoid any health hazard. They have been told to bring awareness about precautions and make arrangements to distribute pamphlets stating do's and don't's so that outbreak of any disease could be stopped.

New Delhi, June 20
Unlike other sessions, of the total 121 seats offered in MD, MS and MDS disciplines by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) nearly one-third - 37 seats, including all 10 seats designated under the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category, 12 in Scheduled Castes (SC), 10 in general and rest four being that of Other Backward Classes (OBC), remained vacant after the second counselling ended here today.

All vacant seats will be available for the open counselling slated to happen on July 26 when candidates will be called based on the merit list as well as various reserved categories.

However, as far as the choice of the post-graduate branches is concerned the trend remained the same with the majority of the seats confirmed by the top rankers being the ones in medicine (total seven seats, including one ST), general surgery (7) radiodiagnosis (6) and radiotherapy (5), paediatrics (2), obstetrics and gyanecology (8, barring one vacant in ST), and dermatology, which had no seat for unreserved candidates and one each for ST and OBC category, respectively.

Among the first few in the overall merit list, Bhagya S. the first ranker holder did not turn up for the counselling, Voppuru Saiesh Reddy second ranked confirmed his seat in general surgery while the seats in medicine were opted by the fifth and sixth on the first day of counselling when the seats in radiodiagnosis were chosen by the third and seventh ranker.

Along with the post-graduate courses, the counselling for admission into the two seats for super-specialty MCh discipline of neurosurgery and paediatric surgery too was held but without any reservation as per the norm.