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Delhi Cong leaders to go to Amethi to ‘expose’ AAP
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DU to introduce MA in Lifelong Learning and Extension
Man arrested for travel scam
Two held for racist remarks
BJP may form state govt if it wins LS polls
Man held for bid to rape minor
AIIMS students vow to promote organ donation
Salesgirl outwits jewellery robbers
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Delhi Cong leaders to go to Amethi to ‘expose’ AAP
New Delhi, April 13 According to Vishwas, the condition of the villages has become worse during the last 10 years. Gandhi has never visited the villages. According to sources, in a move to counter Vishwas' propaganda, all the eight MLAs, Haroon Yusuf, who is the Congress Legislative Party leader in the Delhi assembly, Arvinder Singh Lovely, DPCC president, Dalit leader Jai Kishan and former MLA Raj Kumar Chauhan will leave for Amethi. The sources said that Delhi leaders would explain the 'maladministration' of 49 days of AAP government during which there was a total chaos in the city. Delhi Secretariat was converted into another Jantar Mantar where a large number of NGOs and others staged protest. The AAP had assured people of cheap water, power and corruption-free government, but when the time was to deliver, the Chief Minister and his cabinet ministers resigned leaving the citizens in the lurch. According to the sources, Muslim leaders like Asif Muhammad Khan, Hassan Ahmed Khan and Mateen Ahmed would also canvass for the Congress in Amethi. They would highlight the development work done by the Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government in the minority-dominated areas. Schemes for the students of minority communities like scholarship and fee reimbursement would also be mentioned. |
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DU to introduce MA in Lifelong Learning and Extension
New Delhi, April 13 Characterised by various components of social science-formal, informal and non-formal aspects, the unique interdisciplinary course aims towards enhancing practical skills and employability opportunities in teaching and academia, public and private sectors, NGOs and consultancy agencies, among others. Its syllabus has been designed in line with the international education model, in particular European Commission's Master of Arts in Lifelong Learning in consultation with the experts of EU and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. According to head of DACEE Dr Rajesh, the UGC considers extension as the third dimension of higher education with learning and research being the other two components and this course is a step in that direction. "The unique course is being introduced for the first time in the country and has four papers in line with EU and UNESCO-Adult and Lifelong Learning in India and at global level, Extension and Community Outreach, Research Methodology and Practicum," he said. Elaborating, he stated, "This is a course which gives due weight to theory, practicum and credit-based internship opportunities to the students. It has a great employment potential in various government and non-governmental institutions. The corporate and the voluntary sectors will also be roped in." Even as the Master's programme has been developed to provide professional manpower in the field of education management, there are opportunities galore for young students, said DU officials while adding that they will get hands-on experience of different educational practices, policymaking and analysing along with community learning. The industry-university linkages will enable them to comprehend the needs of the market while offering chance for campus placements to the aspiring learners, they added. Another faculty member from the department, Dr. S.
Mandal, stressed that learning itself is a lifelong activity and it does not end with schooling. Dr Rajesh and Dr
V.K. Dixit, another faculty member from the department, opine that the programme is different in many ways, from the existing adult education programmes at the university level in India and such lessons should be integral part of higher education system. This programme focuses on the entire educational spectrum, they added. Further, in line with UNESCO's parameters for learning, the programme provides space for accreditation, validation and recognition. Prior to this, the department instituted six papers in discipline II level under the Four Year Undergraduate
Programme. Students with the six papers at discipline II will be eligible for the Master's course. The last date of online registration of the programme is April 18, 2014, which can be done by logging into the University of Delhi website, under PG Admission Portal. Exams with multiple-choice questions will be held on June 25. |
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Man arrested for travel scam
New Delhi, April 13 "The father-son duo ran a tour and travel agency with offices in Mumbai, Chandigarh and Delhi. Here they had their office in Nehru Place. They had a lavish lifestyle in order to impress their potential victims," said a police official. They came under police scanner after a Delhi-based doctor Anand Kumar approached police saying that the father-son duo had taken Rs 15 lakh from him for Europe tour and then shut their office. They had switched off their mobile numbers. An investigation was carried out and Sanjay Raili was arrested after police traced him through technical surveillance a couple of days ago. During interrogation, Raili confessed to have duped around 200 people in Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigrah. Most of their victims included newly-married couples who booked honeymoon packages. The father-son duo have also allegedly cheated investors through multi-level marketing schemes earlier, the official said. Raili's son Sambhav, who is absconding, was arrested in 2009 for posing as an IPS officer and is currently out on bail, police said.
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Two held for racist remarks
New Delhi, April 13 Haokip, who was preparing for civil services examination, and the accused were neighbours in Christian Colony in Maurice Nagar here. Haokip was walking near his room along with his friends last night when he heard the accused passing racist comments about Northeast people, police said. When Haokip objected to it, the accused also passed racist comments at him after which a heated argument broke out and a police complaint was lodged. Both the accused, who are civil services aspirants and working in private firms, have been booked under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, police said. There have been a series of such incidents in the city where people from northeast have been targeted in the last over two months. A 19-year-old student from Arunanchal Pradesh, Nido Tania, who was
pursuing graduation from a private university, was allegedly beaten to death by some shopkeepers at Lajpat Nagar on January 29.
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BJP may form state govt if it wins LS polls
New Delhi, April 13 According to the sources, the BJP had 31 seats and one Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal). It is short of four seats for forming the government in the 70-member Delhi Legislative Assembly. Though Delhi BJP president Dr Harsh Vardhan, who was chief ministerial candidate during the assembly election, had reiterated a number of times that he did not believe in horse trading, the sources said MLAs of the other parties are interested in supporting the saffron party. But three BJP MLAs - Pravesh Verma from Mehrauli, Ramesh Bidhuri from Tughlakabad and Dr Harsh Vardhan from Geeta Colony - have contested the Lok Sabha elections. If they win the Lok Sabha elections, the party may form the government after by-elections. The BJP is the single largest party in the Delhi Legislative Assembly though the AAP that had only 28 seats formed the government with the support of the Congress. |
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Man held for bid to rape minor
New Delhi, April 13 The accused, who lives in rented accommodation in Nabi Karim and works in a private bag manufacturing unit, was arrested on Sunday from a nearby area. According to the police, "The accused is neighbour of the victim. He allegedly lured her, a class 2 student of a government school while he was going on to the roof of the house in order to sleep. When he tried to rape the girl, she began shouting which forced him to flee." "The girl narrated the incident to her mother. Her father immediately approached the police and lodged a complaint," the official said. The girl told the police that the accused had also tried to commit the same act five days ago while she was playing near her house. |
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AIIMS students vow to promote organ donation
New Delhi, April 13 There is a huge shortage of organs in India and each year hundreds of people die while waiting for an organ transplant. According to doctors, nearly 7.85 million people in India have chronic kidney failure and each year more than one lakh patients in the country are diagnosed with end-stage renal disease out of which only 4,000 are able to receive a donor kidney. It has been estimated that 2,00,000 people in India are annually diagnosed with organ failure needing transplantation as part of life-saving measure. While a very miniscule number of patients get organs by way of donations. |
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Salesgirl outwits jewellery robbers
New Delhi, April 13 The robbers collected the items and when they were about to flee, they were told by a salesgirl that she had informed the police who were on the way. Hearing this, the robbers panicked and fled in a hurry leaving the jewellery behind, but injuring the owner of the shop
with a sharp object, the police said. The girl had not actually made a call. She just played a trick which worked, the police said. The police said the entire incident has been captured by the CCTV cameras installed in the showroom. Efforts are on to nab the robbers, the police said. |
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