New Delhi, Sept ember 17
A 25-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped in a moving car by two men, who are her live-in partner's friends, in south Delhi on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

The police have detained two men, including her alleged live-in partner, who was driving the car when the incident took place. They are searching for the third accused.

At about 1.30 am today, an autorickshaw driver noticed the woman near the Nehru Place flyover. He dialled 100 and informed the police about the woman whose clothes were somewhat torn and she was wandering aimlessly. A Police Control Room (PCR) vehicle reached the spot and the PCR staff suspected that the woman might have been assaulted. They took her to the AIIMS Trauma Centre in south Delhi, where her medical examination confirmed that she was raped.

Following the confirmation, the police registered a case in regard to the rape at the Kalkaji police station. They caught two of the accused early this morning.

"The woman was not fit to give her statement to us immediately. We waited until this morning and after she identified the accused, we sent the police teams to catch them," said a police officer.

The woman in her statement told the police that she is a resident of Geeta Colony where she lives with her partner. On Tuesday evening, her partner arrived home in his car. When she came out of her apartment, she saw two other friends of her partner seated in the car.

"She was seated at the back seat. After some time, the accused stopped the car to buy a cold drink. She claims that she was given the drink and then she lost consciousness after a while," said the officer.

According to the police, the victim was then raped in the moving car and dropped near the Kalkaji area from where she began walking until she was noticed by the autorickshaw driver.

"The woman underwent counselling and her mother has been informed," said the officer.

Sources claimed that the victim's father had passed away a few years ago. Her mother stays with her aunt in east Delhi. The aunt is reportedly a Delhi Police constable. However, the police did not reveal any details.

New Delhi, September 17
Stepping up the ante against the Delhi University administration, teachers, students and karamcharis today gathered under the banner of the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) at Jantar Mantar to demand the removal of Vice-Chancellor Prof Dinesh Singh and institute a visitorial inquiry into the alleged "irregularities" in the university functioning.

They called for withdrawal of "vindictive" measures by the administration against teachers in the matters of pension and promotions and starting of regular permanent recruitment for the 4700 vacant teaching posts with correct reservation roster.

In this regard, a delegation of DUTA office-bearers and the DUCKU general secretary also met the Human Resources and Development Minister Smriti Irani and submitted a memorandum during the day.

The DUTA president Nandita Narain expressed concern about the fact that despite being "thoroughly discredited", the VC has been put on important government-appointed committees on higher education.

"The VC has been resorting to victimising teachers who have raised their voice against him and especially after the scrapping of the four-year undergraduate programme, he has been more vindictive. We have submitted a white paper already and are demanding that he be removed. The minister responded positively and promised to give serious consideration to all the issues raised in the memorandum. In particular, she emphasised the determination of the ministry to expedite the process of making permanent appointment of teachers and non-teaching staff," said the DUTA president.

New Delhi, September 17
Delhi University has been placed sixth in the overall ranking in India after the five IITs -Bombay (222), Delhi (235), Kanpur (300), Madras (322) and Kharagpur (324) among 800 universities across the world by the QS World University Rankings 2014-15.

In terms of "Academic Reputation", DU ranks second (196) in the country followed by IIT Bombay which tops the list of Indian varsities (160). On the same count, DU's ranking is better than even four other IITs mentioned above (Delhi-199, Kanpur-229, Madras-296, Kharagpur- 328).

When it comes to "Employer Reputation", the varsity has improved to 122nd position in global rankings and bagged the third position after IIT-Bombay (60) and IIT-Delhi (90) respectively.

Put in the group--421-430-in all-round popularity chart, DU has moved up by 20 ranks as compared with previous year's rankings and maintained a lead of at least 130 points from the University of Mumbai (551-600 points) followed by University of Kolkata (601-650), Banaras Hindu University (701+) .

DU has also left other such universities behind in "Faculty Areas", such as Social Science and Management wherein it has been ranked 166 globally and in Arts and Humanities and Natural Science, the university remains second with a world ranking of 194 and 220 respectively.

"DU has been placed at a higher position in global rankings than five other Indian IITs which have a very different structure since they are self-contained small campuses," said Joint Dean, Students' Welfare and media coordinator, Prof Malay Neerav.

The survey for QS ratings is based on various parameters, including academic reputation, teaching and research standards, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, etc.

New Delhi, September 17
The increased habitation along the proposed line of Dwarka-Najafgarh corridor has made the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) drop a station and reduce the length of the track by approximately one kilometre.

The extension of Dwarka line till Najafgarh was earlier proposed to be of 5.5 kilometres along with four stations, but due to public representations aggrieving about the alignment and to avoid heavy demolition, the DMRC has changed the route of the corridor and reduced the length to 4.4 kilometres with three stations.

"There has been rapid development along the alignment after the detailed project report which might have required heavy demolition. Therefore, to address the interests of the people, the changes have been made," said a senior Delhi Transport official.

The length of the elevated section of the corridor will be 2.75 kilometres. "The construction of an elevated corridor would have resulted in the demolition of a lot of buildings. In order to meet the public demand and avoid such inconvenience to the people, the last part of the alignment is planned to be made as underground," said the official.

The three stations on the corridor will be constructed at Dwarka (elevated), Najafgarh Depot (elevated) and Municipal Corporation (underground).

This corridor will provide easy access to the commuters residing in Najafgarh, Mitraon, Jharoda Kalan, Kair, Dichaon Kalan, Dindarpur Extn., Baba Haridas Nagar, Chhawla, Roshanpura, Shyam Vihar, Dharmpura, Sai Baba Enclave, Nangli Sakravati, Arjun Park, Roshan Garden, Shiva Enclave, Todarmal Colony, Prem Nagar, New Hira Park, Ajay Park, Nathu Ram Park, Gemini Park, Shiva Enclave, Raghubir Nagar etc.

The official said that there was a public demand to take the Metro towards the Dhansa bus stand in Najafgarh which would be possible only by making the last station of the corridor as underground. The entire stretch will be on broad gauge and will be opened for commuter operations by December 2016. In 2016, about 76,000 commuters are expected to travel by this corridor.

New Delhi, September 17
In a bid to sensitise students about the significance of energy conservation, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in association with the Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency is going to organise a National Awareness campaign.

The initiative aims towards sensitising children about the need of saving energy in their lives and make them ready for futuristic resources. As part of the plan, the CBSE is organising a painting competition at three levels, i.e school, state and national.

CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi said, "An education board has to take responsibility to sensitise its children towards global issues. Overuse and misuse of energy is a concern of the nation and we must make our contribution to solving it."

Hoping the participation of students as well as teachers, the CBSE states that students need to be educated about the concept of energy-saving which will not only help in sustainability but will also save money. By integrating this approach with the painting competition, the board aims to sharpen the calibre of students towards education and conservation.

The competition being organised since 2005 is a yearly affair attracting students from across the country.

Students with the most meaningful painting will be felicitated at the end of the year with a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh by the President of India.

School level competition is open till September 30, 2014 where administrators will select and send the top two paintings to the board with the details of the candidates.

Every student who is participating will be given a certificate; the same will be the procedure on the state level where 13 best paintings will be selected by the jury as per their categories.