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DMC issues notice to North municipal body over Gayatri mantra circular to schools
The Delhi Minorities Commission has issued a notice to the North civic body over a circular issued by it for recital of 'Gayatri Mantra' in schools run by its education department. Chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission(DMC) Zafarul Islam Khan said the notice was recently issued to the education department of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC). The education department of NDMC has been asked to explain "why a circular has been issued to its schools to make students recite Gayatri Mantra in morning assemblies. "Is this not against our secular polity and will this not cause division in the ranks of students and teachers as many belong to minority communities who may not like to recite mantras of religious nature," the notice asks. NDMC authorities have defended the move, saying recital of 'Gayatri Mantra' at schools run by the civic body was not mandatory. The civic body runs 765 primary schools where around 2.2 lakh students are enrolled. Chairman of Education committee of the ..
ABVP sweeps UoH student polls
: After an eight year gap, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad swept the student union elections in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) for 2018-19, winning the top six posts. The ABVP, which contested the polls together with the Other Backward Classes Federation (OBCF) and Sevalal Vidyarthi Dal (SLVD), bagged all six posts, including thaf of President, Vice-President, General Secretary, Joint Secretary and Cultural Secretary in the elections held on October 5. The results were announced late on Saturday by the UoH, also popularly known as Hyderabad Central University (HCU). The elections saw intense competition among Students Federation of India, ABVP-OBCF-SLVD, and United Democratic Alliance, represented by Ambedkar Students Association, Bahujan Students Front, Dalit Students Union and National Students Union of India. More than 3,900 students took part in the polling, a UoH release said. "It is after a gap of eight years that ABVP has won the student union elections
Jamia Milia university 'agrees' to appoint Turkish teachers
The Jamia Millia Islamia University administration has accepted the students' demand to appoint Turkish teachers, even as the students claimed they got only a 'verbal assurance' from the varsity, officials said Saturday. A spokesperson from the administration said they have accepted the demands of the students. The students have been sitting in protest against the absence of Turkish language teachers. On Friday, they had a meeting with the administration where they said the administration agreed with them on most of the issues. "Whatever administration is promising us is verbal. We don't trust the administration promises as we learnt a lesson with last interactions with administration," said a statement from the protesting students. They demanded that the administration give them things in writing. "If administration is promising us why are they not giving it in written form. This shows their negative intention to stop the movement," the statement added. The students had demanded that
Nagaland gets its first innovation hub, space education centre
Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio inaugurated the state's first ever innovation hub and space education centre at the Nagaland Science Centre in Dimapur.The step was taken in a hope to promote the students of Nagaland towards socio-cultural and economic progress through application of science and technology aimed at a sustainable development of the state.The new facility is a two-storey building, constructed under the initiative of the Centre's department of science and technology in collaboration with the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata."This is the first initiative from the State. We have a state of the art facility for enticing young and talented young minds to come and start their innovation. This is the place where they can come and execute their ideas," said Mhonlumo Kikon, Science and Technology Department Advisor.Kikon also proposed the creation of 'Chief Minister's Innovation Award' to promote innovation and scientific creativity among young minds of the ...
Kovind concerned over women's low participation in science
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday pointed to the low participation of women in higher sciences and said that their scientific potential was not being harnessed properly.
India not adequately harnessing potential of women in science: President
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday expressed concern over the low participation of women in higher science, saying the country is not adequately harnessing their scientific potential and it is a collective responsibility to overcome this social and systemic challenge. He noted that of the 3,446 scientists working at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, a premier national research and development organisation, only 632 or 18.3 per cent are women. "In a week when women scientists have won Nobel prizes for physics and for chemistry, this is a telling statistic. It is a reminder of the scientific potential of our daughters that we are not adequately harnessing. This is both a social and systemic challenge but it is our collective responsibility to overcome it," the President said. He was speaking at the inauguration of the fourth India International Science Festival (IISF) here. The President said that science is done best when it is a collaborative venture, with ...
Arson, violence at Allahabad varsity after students union poll results
Arson and violence erupted on the Allahabad University campus Friday night after the results of students union elections were announced in which Samajwadi Party students wing retained the president's post. Colonelganj Police Station circle officer Alok Mishra said four students, who were allegedly illegally staying in the hostel, have been arrested following a complaint by students union president Uday Prakash Yadav. Mishra said after the results were announced, some students gathered at the Holland Hall Hostel and set Yadav's room afire. They also torched a room-cooler and other things kept outside the room of former president Avnish Yadav. However, the fire was soon doused by the police. An FIR has been lodged against 20 people, including ABVP presidential candidate Atendra Singh, after a complaint by Uday Prakash Yadav, Mishra said.
Manipur University: MUSU expresses shock over acting VC's "terrorists like agitators" remark
The Manipur University Students' Union (MUSU) has expressed shock over acting Vice Chancellor K Yugindro Singh's charge that agitating students are like "terrorists" and that his life is at risk. In a letter to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Singh demanded Y-category security for himself. "I would like to request the Centre to do the needful immediately in order to save the University from the hands of terrorists like agitators...," Yugindro said in his October 3 letter. At a press conference on Friday night, MUSU president M Dayamand questioned the basis of Singh's claim and said his comparison between students and terrorists was "shocking". He also attacked the acting VC over his claim that Governor Najma Heptulla was lending "overt support" to the agitators. The students' leader said only a "mentally unsound" individual could level such charges against the governor. Dayamand said Heptulla has been making efforts to restore normalcy in the varsity and for resumption of .
Normalcy 'returning fast', mid terms from Oct 9: Sharda University official
Normalcy is "returning fast" in Sharda University, its administration said Saturday, as it announced recommencement of mid-term examinations from October 9 which were postponed due to the violence on campus involving Indian and Afghan students. The varsity, located in Gautam Buddh Nagar's Greater Noida, witnessed violence between groups of Indian and Afghan students on Monday and Thursday, leading to injuries to some students and tension on the campus. Multiple videos of scuffle between the two sides, in which an Indian student from Kashmir also got roughed up on Thursday, emerged on social media, prompting the police to lodge a complaint on its own, even as the district administration ordered a probe on "anti-social" elements who entered the university and "triggered a minor scuffle into a communal issue". "In view of the recent untoward incidents on Sharda University campus, the university administration has been closely monitoring the situation. It has been observed that normalcy ..
Two students die in Assam
A PhD scholar of Tezpur Central University and a post graduate student of the Gauhati University have died in the last two days, said police and family sources Saturday. Computer Science Engineering (CSE) research scholar Kangkan Kalita (31) was found dead in his hostel room in the Tezpur Central University campus on Friday, they said. When Kangkan did not take a scheduled examination in the morning hours, his friends in the afternoon went to his room in Saraighat CV Raman Mens Hostel where they found his door locked from inside. When they peeped in from the sky window, they saw him lying in his bed and foaming at the mouth. On being informed, police retrieved the body and sent it for post-mortem to the Kanaklata Civil Hospital in Tezpur before sending it home to Garmur in Jorhat district, police said. The post-mortem report is awaited, police added. Kangkan was a first semester PhD student under Quality Improvement Program (QIP)in the Department of CSE and a faculty ...
Odisha CM launches Nirman Kusuma Yojana
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday launched the "Nirman Kusuma Yojana" to provide financial assistance to children of construction workers for pursuing technical education.
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Naveen launches 'Nirman Kusuma' programme
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday launched 'Nirman Kusuma' programme for providing financial assistance to the children of the construction workers for their technical education in the state. Launching the programme, Patnaik said 'Nirman Kusuma' would help fulfil dreams of construction workers' children. He said the children of construction workers would get financial assistance for their education in Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) and polytechnics. While an ITI student will be entitled to get financial assistance of Rs 23,600, a diploma student to get Rs 26,300 per annum. A total of 1878 students will get benefit from the programme. Patnaik said the government had already deposited Rs 1.09 crore in the bank account of beneficiaries of the 'Nirmal Kusuma'. The chief minister said the government had decided to increase the financial assistance by 20 per cent for girl students. Female students from standard sixth to post graduation level are being ...
How did "anti-social" elements enter campus, Greater Noida administration asks Sharda officials
Ahead of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu's scheduled visit to Sharda University here, the Gautam Buddh Nagar administration Saturday asked the varsity authorities to explain how "anti-social" elements, who are suspected of triggering violence between Indian and Afghan students, enter its campus. The vice president is expected to participate in the Greater Noida-based university's annual convocation on October 28 here. Scuffles were reported between Indian and Afghan students on Monday and Thursday, during which some students were injured. Multiple videos of the fights emerged on social media, prompting the police to initiate action. On Thursday night, the police lodged a case at the Knowledge Park police station and booked over350 students from both the Indian and Afghan side for rioting and related offences. On Friday, district magistrate Brajesh Narain Singh directed the police to file a new FIR against "outsiders" who were purportedly seen in the videos "escalating the minor ...
Probe ordered into charge that students being punished for singing 'Vande Mataram' in Ballia school
The Ballia district administration has taken a serious note of a complaint that students of an aided inter college here are being punished for singing "Vande Mataram" or chanting "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and ordered an inquiry into it. Members of social welfare organisation Manas Mandir, who visited the GMAM Inter College on Bilthara Road yesterday, found that the students in the institution were being punished for singing "Vande Mataram" or chanting "Bharat Mata ki Jai" after the school prayers and complained about the same to the authorities. According to the manager of the organisation, Shiv Kumar Jaiswal, not only the students, but the teachers also complained about the same on camera. "Economics teacher Sanjay Pandey told us that there was a ban on singing Vande Mataram and chanting Bharat Mata ki Jai in the school and anyone doing so is punished," Jaiswal said Saturday. "Pandey told us that one student, who by mistake had chanted 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' after the assembly, was made to .
WB govt suspends transfer of teachers till further orders
The school education department has suspended the transfer of teachers of state-run and state-aided primary and secondary schools across West Bengal till further orders, a department notification said. The school education department in the notification issued on Friday said, "All kinds of teachers' transfer orders are stopped until further order." The notification, without citing any reasons said, "...No application or cases for transfer of primary or secondary teachers will be entertained until further notice." "We will first assess the number of transfer of teachers in recent times before undertaking the teacher transfer process again," Education Minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters after the notification was issued. The notification comes a few days after two youths were killed following a clash between students and police at Daribhit High School in Islampur area in North Dinajpur district, regarding appointment of two teachers. State Education Minister Partha ..
This UP school punishes children for chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'
At a time when patriotism is being debated about largely in the public forum, a government school here has come under the scanner for not allowing students to recite 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' during the assembly hours.The incident has come to light after Shiv Kumar Jaiswal, the Committee Manager of Manas Temple, a social organisation, along with his colleagues visited M.A.M Inter College and asked students if they are being punished for reciting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'.The reports were then confirmed by Sanjay Pandey, an economics teacher at the institute, who said that many students have been punished in the past for displaying their patriotism in school by means of the slogan. He further alleged that the reason for the same was the fact that the school mainly comprised of Muslim teachers.Speaking to ANI, Pandey said, "A teacher named Javed Akhtar recently punished a student by making him stand under the sun for long hours. This is happening for the past several months. This school does not .
J-K school lacks basic infrastructure, students suffer
The students of a government primary school here have been studying under the open sky for over a year now. The roof of the school was blown away by a storm in June last year.The students of Government Primary School Mohalla Tallaian are often compelled to sit in front of the damaged school building in the open to take their classes.The school with forty students, many of whom are girls, also lacks facility of a working toilet.Highlighting the concerns of the students and teachers, Jagdish Singh a local resident of the village said, "This is a government school which has 40 students and two teachers. In 2017 the roof of this got damaged during a storm. Since then no one bothered to repair the roof. The school has to be closed whenever there is a rain. The education of students is suffering. We have now taken a small room in the village on rent but that is not adequate as five classes in one room cannot be taught properly. The students can't fit in that room as well and students have ..
India to Host the 14th International GCA Conference on Media and Communication
Global Communication Association (GCA), a not-for-profit body of media and communication professionals, which holds international conferences from time to time around the world, is organizing its 14th international conference of communication experts and specialists, in India, on 11-12 October 2018, in the historic 'Pink City' of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.Manipal University Jaipur is the academic partner, hosting this conference."In the two-day conference deliberations, about one hundred national and international scholars and subject speakers, representing top universities and corporate companies of the world (a few from the US and Europe), will sign up and arrive in Jaipur to participate in the two-day deliberations of this program. Another two hundred professional delegates from corporate houses, media universities, communication institutions, correlated professional service agencies, government bodies, and not-for-profit organizations would also be joining us locally in supporting .
'JNU admin plans to place teachers under Conduct of Central Services Rules'
The Jawaharlal Nehru University plans to place teachers under the Conduct of Central Services Rules, which would restrict them for making public statements against the administration, a member of the academic council said Friday. The varsity held its academic council meeting on Friday and the issue was part of the agenda, which the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) alleged was circulated only three-four days before the meeting. The JNU administration passed the proposal of three online courses -MA in Sanskrit, Certificate of Proficiency in Computational Linguistics and Certificate of Proficiency in Pali, the varsity said. The academic council of the varsity also noted that efforts will be made to fill all the MPhil and PhD vacancies. An academic council member said a discussion was held on theConduct of Central Services Rules for teachers, which would mean they will not be allowed to express dissent. He said there was discussion on it, but the vice-chancellor ..
