New Delhi : No matter which state one is from, the capital is one of the choicest destinations for higher studies. But students in far-off Assam battle lack of information, while a frugal marking system in the state poses a hindrance to the pursuit of an academic career.
Says Rajib Singha Borah, president of the Luitporia Youth Forum, a group that helps students from Assam at Delhi University: Information about admissions, cut-off marks and courses here are hardly known to students and guardians in the state.
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The Centre today clarified to the Supreme Court that there is no provision in the Foreigners (Tribunals for Assam) Order that puts the burden of proving whether a person is a foreigner on the complainant.
Making the submission in court, solicitor-general G.E. Vahanvati sought time to respond to petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the controversial amendment to the Foreigners Act, which has supposedly made deportation of illegal migrants more difficult to accomplish.
Justice S.B. Sinha directed the Centre and the Assam government to file their affidavits by Thursday. The next hearing is slated for Monday, when the court is expected to
New Delhi: Students and interns of five medical colleges here went on an indefinite strike today protesting against the proposed move to increase OBC quotas in educational institutions.
Students of Maulana Azad Medical College, Lady Hardinge Medical
College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, University College of
Medical Sciences and Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College were boycotting lectures and staying away from OPD services, leader of the group Anirudh Lochan told PTI.
The resident doctors have also extended their support to the agitation and would be joining the students during the demonstrations, he claimed.
If there is someone who, out of necessity or curiosity, makes it his business to search for and collect news relating to Manipur (or even the northeast excluding Assam) on a daily basis in the New Delhi-based newspapers, he may either end up happy, or frustrated. Happy, because there rarely are news reports to work on and hence, lots of leisure. Or frustrated, because most of whatever little news he obtained will be negative news. And if he takes the extra trouble to make a comparison of the regular headlines in Manipur newspapers and those that appear in the national
Patiala : The medical students from the three premier institutions of the city today left the city to join medical students of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, who had been on a hunger strike in the protest against the new reservation policy of the union government.
More than 70 medical students from the Government Medical College, Government Dental College and Government Ayurvedic College boarded a bus from the premises of the Government Rajindra Hospital that was flagged off by president of the Punjab Branch of the Indian Medical Association, Dr G.S. Gill.
In a joint statement,
A 28-year-old girl, pursuing a post-graduate course at the Delhi University, on Tuesday allegedly committed suicide in South Delhi.
Kalyani Tamang, hailing from Assam, was found hanging from the ceiling of her room in Chirag Delhi locality on Tuesday morning, police said.
She was a final year MA student in Delhi Universitys south campus.
Police have recovered a suicide note from her room in which said she was taking the extreme step due to some personal reasons and nobody was responsible for her death.
A resident of Dibrugarh in Assam, she had been living in Chirag Delhi for the last six months. She