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Prof Johri's presence on campus threatening, JNU students say in police complaint
Accusing the JNU administration of shielding a professor facing sexual harassment charges, a group of university students have filed a police complaint, saying they are "threatened" with his presence on the campus. The students have also sought protection from the police in their complaint against JNU professor Atul Kumar Johri. "We, the students of School of Life Sciences, are feeling threatened. The presence of the accused in the premises is making it a distressing environment. He is coming to school premises daily for past three days," they said in the complaint filed at Vasant Kunj Police Station last night. A police official said they have received the complaint but no FIR has been registered yet. "We are looking into the issue." On Wednesday, Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher directed the university to initiate a probe against Johri. The court also said: "Can't you (JNU) advise him to stay outside the campus till the enquiry is completed? ... Can't you treat the ...
RSS writes to Aligarh University, demands Shakhas on campus
The letter was written to dispel misconceptions about the right-wing outfit among students of the minority community.A RSS worker, Mohammed Amir Rashid in the letter stated "Wrong perception is being created that RSS is anti-Muslim, they are actually a nationalist organisation. If 'Shakhas' are held students will know what RSS is about."Rashid further noted that RSS is dedicated to nation's service and works without religious discrimination.According to media reports, the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union president opposed the move.
Teacher booked for molesting Class 6 student in HP
The Shimla Police today booked a school teacher for allegedly molesting a minor girl, studying in Class 6, following a complaint lodged by the victim. In her complaint, the victim, student of a government school here, alleged that the accused teacher was molesting her for the past one-and-a-half years, police said. The matter came to light when the victim had heated exchanges with the teacher in the classroom which caused commotion, they said. As the news spread, the parents of the minor girl also reached the school and demanded strict action against the teacher, police said. The parents and teachers were engaged in verbal dual and the parents lodged their protest, following which the police reached the spot. Police have registered a case under Sections 354 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 8 and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and arrested the accused. A departmental enquiry has also been initiated against the teacher, official sources said.
HC issues notice to TN education principal secretary
The Madras High court today issued notice to the state education principal secretary on a plea seeking filling of vacancies in government high schools and higher secondary schools in the State. A division bench of Justices C T selvam and Justice A M Basheer Ahamed ordered notice to the official on a PIL filed by Karuppiah. The petitioner submitted that 2405 teacher posts and 884 Head Master (HM) posts were lying vacant in Government high schools across the state. Similarly, 1657 teachers posts and 34 HM posts were vacant in higher secondary schools,and this would affect the quality of education in the schools, he said. The petitioner sought a direction to the government to fill the posts.
HC directs pvt dental college to refund fee to Iranian students
The Madras High Court today directed a private dental college near here to refund the full fees paid by Iranian students, whose admissions were cancelled as they were enrolled without the mandatory NEET qualification. Justice P N Prakash ordered the Asan Memorial Dental College and Hospital to handover all the demand drafts to the Consul General of Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammed Haghbin Ghoni, who appeared in the court to represent the case of the students. He also directed the Consul General, who is in touch with the families of the students, to ensure that the amount reached them. The judge then posted the matter to June 11. The court was hearing a petition by student Naseer Hamidavi Zegheiri, seeking vacation of stay on the FIR registered against the college on a complaint by him that it had not refunded the fees paid by him after his admission was cancelled. According to the petitioner, the college had admitted the students, who did not have the NEET qualification, despite .
Maha signs MoU with British Council
The Maharashtra government today signed an MoU with the British Council to strengthen educational and cultural cooperation. The agreement was signed by Sumit Mullick, Chief Secretary, state government, and Alan Gemmell OBE, Director British Council India. "With this MoU, the British Council hopes to expand its existing work in the state, where in recent times, it has trained more than 100,000 teachers benefitting around five million learners," a release said. The areas of potential collaboration include developing further initiatives to improve English teaching and enhance employability skills in schools and training institutes, building capacity in higher education and research and further co-operation on inspiring hundreds of thousands of people in the state through arts and culture, it said. Alan Gemmell OBE said, "We hope to support the chief minister's vision for the youth of the State to be more employable nationally and internationally, have better learning ...
Yogi suspends officers in wake of Kushinagar accident
In wake of the bus-train collision accident in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday ordered immediate suspension of various officials.These include the Basic Education Officer and Block Education Officers of Kushinagar and Dudhi, Road Transport Officer and Passenger Tax Officer.Earlier in the day, a school bus and a train collided at an unmanned crossing, resulting in the death of 13 students while many were left injured.The school bus ferrying 20 children belonged to Divine Public School.It was later learned that the bus driver who had ear phones plugged in while driving the vehicle could not hear the sound of the train and hence failed to avoid the mishap.The Chief Minister also ordered to register an FIR against the principal of the school. The principal has been detained by the police following an inquiry into the accident.Commissioner of Gorakhpur division, Anil Kumar told ANI that a detailed report of the preliminary inquiry was submitted to the ..
Van-tanker collision: Drivers were challaned multiple times previously, says police
The driver of the school van that was hit by a milk tanker, resulting in the death of a 7-year-old girl in northwest Delhi today, had been challaned by the city traffic police eight times under various offences. According to the police, the man was driving the vehicle under the influence of alcohol with headphones plugged in his ears, adding that the driver of the milk tanker was also challaned on 17 previous occasions. The police said the school van was also carrying children beyond capacity. A Delhi government officer said the van, a 2002 model private vehicle, was running illegally. Its driver, Vijay Kumar, did not fulfill the various norms required for driving school vans, he said. Kumar was also carrying a licence for driving private vehicles, the official said. According to the rules, vans used for carrying school children must be equipped with devices like Global Positioning System (GPS) and speed governors for the safety of children. The drivers of such vehicles also require .
One killed, 17 children injured in school van-tanker collision
A seven-year-old girl was killed and 17 other students were injured after a milk-tanker rammed into a private school van this morning near the Kanhaiya Nagar metro station in northwest Delhi, prompting the city government to order a magisterial probe into the incident. The accident occurred due to the negligence of the two drivers, a senior police officer said. The driver of the private school van had his earphones on and was driving on the wrong side of the road. The milk tanker driver was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, he added. In another incident, three school children suffered minor injuries when they were hit by a car in northwest Delhi's Bharat Nagar. The driver has been arrested, the police said. The police said the two drivers involved in the accident near the Kanhaiya Nagar metro station were habitual offenders. While the driver of the private school van had been challaned eight times for various offences, the driver of the milk van had faced action on 17 ...
DU adds new features to online admission form for undergraduate courses
Delhi University announced today that it would add new features to its online form for 2018-19 admissions which would include providing a single portal for applications for both merit-based and entrance-based entry into undergraduate courses. The university has also announced a two-day pre-admission orientation programme starting tomorrow to educate students and parents about the new features. The university has facilitated automatic capturing of Class 12 marks scored by a CBSE student once he/she enters registration number and has also provided options to upload three best certificates for sports category students, instead of just one previously. Besides, five-year integrated journalism course has been added as a new course to the portal. "The main objective of the two-day programme is to familiarise aspirants about the online registration process and admissions in the undergraduate course during 2018-19, particularly in the context of some new features added in the application form .
Soon JNU may have 3-4 teachers per student: HC on varsity's norms for MPhil, PhD courses
The JNU may soon achieve the "unique" status of a university having 3-4 teachers for every student for the manner in which it has "tightened" the norms for admission to MPhil and PhD courses, the Delhi High Court observed today. Referring to Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) submission that it got 399 students for its MPhil and PhD courses last year when its faculty strength was over 500 teachers, a bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla said there were almost two teachers for every student and questioned the logic behind such intake. "You have tightened your norms, so the intake has dried up. At this rate, JNU is going to be a unique university where there would be three to four teachers for every one student. It is almost two teachers for one student now. What kind of logic is this? There is something wrong," the court said. Under the new admission norms, there is a cap on the number of students per research supervisor for MPhil and PhD courses. The slash in the seats ...
American Express grants $99,000 to boost digital literacy
Aiming to promote digital literacy in the country, American Express has presented a grant of $99,000 to the American India Foundation, an official said on Thursday.
Car hits school children, 3 suffer minor injuries
Three school students suffered minor injuries when they were hit by a car in northwest Delhi's Bharat Nagar today, the police said. The incident took place when the vehicle was being driven in reverse. The driver has been arrested, the police said. In another incident today, a seven-year-old girl was killed and 17 students were injured after a private school van was hit by a milk-tanker near the Kanhaiya Nagar metro station in northwest Delhi.
NDMC to introduce student achievement tracking system in schools
The schools run by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will now have a Student Achievement Tracking System (SATS) to track the academic and non-academic progress of the students. NDMC Chairman Naresh Kumar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PwC India Foundation today in this regard. "The objective of the system is to track each and every child in all the schools under the jurisdiction of the NDMC and create a database," Kumar said. "Besides monitoring the schools' resources and their performance, online capturing of attendance and exam results, scholarships and incentive disbursements, making the information available to the parents and students, the system will digitise the students' records for future references, eliminating the need for paper-based documentation," he added. The project is being implemented in 42 NDMC schools and will be completed by next month. According to the MoU, while the NDMC will extend all the assistance in developing the digital platform, ..
Admit all students selected in EWS draw: Delhi govt to pvt schools
The Delhi government has directed all private schools in the national capital to ensure that each child, whose name has been selected in the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) draw, is granted admission. The direction has been issued after it came to light that some schools were denying admission, claiming general seats had been filled. "We have issued a fresh order to all private schools making it clear that every child, whose name has appeared under the EWS quota mandated by the Right to Education Act (RTE), must be granted admission," a senior official of the Directorate of Education (DoE) said. "The chief minister had received multiple reports of schools denying admission to children under EWS, claiming that their seats under the general category had been filled and no seats were left for the EWS category," the official added. A similar issue had cropped up last year as well. However, after raids conducted by the DoE it was found that some schools had concealed actual enrolment in
Two students group clash in Kashmir University
Two groups of rival students at the Kashmir University today attacked each other with knives, leaving at least nine of them injured, officials said. An altercation broke out between two groups of students near the building of faculty of law at the Kashmir University, officials at the varsity said. "The altercation was followed by students coming to blows and soon the knives were drawn," the officials said. A spokesperson of the university said a scuffle was reported between some students of the Department of Law. "During the said scuffle, some students were reported to be injured and have been referred for first-aid," the spokesperson said. He said a high-level committee has been constituted to ascertain the cause of the incident and shall submit its report within two days with specific recommendations for further action in the matter.
Kejriwal orders magisterial probe into school van-tanker accident
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today ordered a magisterial probe into the school van-tanker accident in which a seven-year-old girl was killed and 17 students were injured. The chief minister has directed Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash to submit a report within three days. In his note to Prakash, Kejriwal said that it has been brought to his notice that a fatal accident involving a school van carrying students of Keshavpuram and a tanker has occurred near Kanhaiya Nagar metro station in which a large number of students are seriously injured, including young children. "The chief secretary is directed to get the magisterial inquiry conducted by concerned district magistrate/deputy commissioner and submit the report within three days," Kejriwal said in his order to Prakash. A seven-year-old girl was killed and 17 students were injured after a milk-tanker rammed into the school van this morning near the Kanhaiya Nagar metro station in northwest Delhi, police said. The school van was .
1 in every 4 women studying at DU faced sexual harassment: Report
One in every four women studying at Delhi University and its affiliated colleges has been victim of sexual harassment, according to a safety audit conducted by a student organisation. The safety audit conducted by the student wing of the Congress -- National Students' Union of India (NSUI) -- covered 50 university departments and colleges. There are about 80 colleges affiliated to Delhi University. According to the audit report, released today, 22 of the 50 departments/colleges flouted guidelines of the higher education regulator UGC by not electing student representatives democratically to their anti-sexual harassment panels -- Internal Complaints Committees. A field survey, as part of the audit, in 24 colleges spread across Delhi University and its colleges was conducted and a total of 810 students, of whom around 90 per cent were women and 10 per cent were men, responded to the queries. "One in four students has reported sexual harassment. Out of the 188 cases of harassment faced ..
CASIO contributes to mathematics education of emerging country
There are still educational institutions in ASEAN countries, excluding Singapore, that are partially insufficient in keeping up with the latest trends in mathematics and educational institutions in developed countries.The quality of teaching in the classroom needs to be improved.Japan's Casio Corp. is helping to improve mathematics education quality in these countries.The company has been focusing on the development of a teacher's guide to demonstrate how to use a scientific electronics calculator in mathematics classes. It's the first time for emerging countries.To improve mathematics education, Casio invited mathematics teachers from around the world to attend the company's second scientific electronic calculator seminar held at its Tokyo headquarters in order to demonstrate how to use a calculator to improve mathematics skills."Most importantly, we've learned that the calculator is not just a device for doing calculations, but is a device to help students to learn mathematics," ...
Three students from Chennai school drown in Pune dam
Three students from a Chennai school, who had come to Pune in Maharashtra for a summer camp with their classmates, drowned in the Mulshi dam, located around 50 kms away from here, police said today. The deceased trio were part of a group of 20 students of Chennai's ECS Matriculation school who were visiting the dam along with their teachers yesterday. The incident occurred last evening after all students entered the backwater for swimming, said a senior officer of Paud police station. According to the officer, the students had just appeared for final examination for class 8 and are awaiting results. Yesterday was the first day of the summer camp, he added. "After their activities got over for the day, all the students were taken to the backwater for swimming. They were accompanied by four teachers," he said. He said the teachers had entered the water first to gauge its depth, and instructed the students not to enter deep water. "However, the three students, identified as
