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Court slams St Stephen's principal Valson Thampu:</br><br> Delhi High Court today rapped St Stephen's College Principal Valson Thampu over the manner in which he handled the suspension of a student editor of its banned e-zine for "violating" discipline and asked him to take back the step. It also castigated the Delhi University for not playing an impartial role in the entire matter. Expressing his anguish, Justice Vibhu Bakhru said the issue should not have reached the court for its intervention, as it showed "how the Stephen's College Principal has gone about it". "Look at the way you are behaving. Is this the way a Principal of the college should act? You should have some sense of humour," the court said, adding "you should take your steps (against the student editor) back".
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Indian-origin UK tycoon kidnapped?</br><br> The UK Foreign Office is looking into the mysterious disappearance of a British-Indian hotelier who went missing while on a business trip to Punjab. Ranjit Singh Power's family in Britain fears he may have been kidnapped after he uncharacteristically failed to stay in contact with them and did not catch his return flight from Amritsar on May 14. The 54-year-old owns the four-star Ramada Park Hall Hotel in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands region of England, and is in the habit of ringing his family every day. But this time, he last spoke to his partner, Angela Bir, on May 7 when he landed in India. "We are getting more and more distraught. Our fears are he may have been kidnapped or even worse," his daughter Emma told the 'Express & Star' newspaper. (Courtesy: Ramada Park Hall Hotel )
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Controversy and Arvind Kejriwal's AAP are made for each other, says BJP:</br><br> Accusing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of "intentionally" creating a Constitutional crisis in Delhi over appointment of Shakuntala Gamlin as acting Chief Secretary for the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today took a potshot, saying Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and controversy are "made for each other". Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “Controversy after controversy… and finally now, Jung se jung (fight with Jung). The problem is they (AAP leaders) want to remain in controversy. Earlier, it (AAP) was a nautankiwal party. They would stage dharna, protest… and now he has become controversywal. (PTI)
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Delhi university admissions confusion:</br><br> Queries on the best-four policy and doubts regarding selection through sports and ECA quota today figured among the concerns raised by undergraduate admission seekers as DU held the first of its 'Open Days' counselling sessions. Questions from students and parents were answered by Delhi University's Dean of Students Welfare JM Khurana. "It is not clear what all subjects can be included in the best-four and what will be the deduction in case of vocational subjects?" an aspirant asked. Another wanted to know "how will the colleges calculate the aggregate in case of sports quota admissions as the fitness test has been centralised from this year?" Yet another candidate wondered whether "the trials for Extra Curricular Activities (ECA) quota admissions will also be centralised or if they will be conducted separately at colleges?" Khurana explained that the best-four calculation policy has been simplified and it will include one language, two academic or elective subjects and the subject in which admission is being sought. "In case the student is not including in the best four percentage the subject in which admission is sought, he or she will face a deduction of 2.5 per cent," he said. From this year, it will be mandatory for students seeking admission in B.Com and Economics Honours courses to have mathematics as a subject in Std XII. It, however, will not be mandatory for them to include it in their best-four. (PTI)
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IIT JAM Result 2016: RANK LIST – For each test paper in JAM 2016, an All India Rank (AIR) will be assigned to all the appeared candidates based on the performance of the candidates in the test paper. TIE-BREAKING – The tie-breaking criterion for awarding the ranks to candidates scoring the same aggregate marks in a test paper will be as follows: The candidate with a higher ratio of positive marks to negative marks will be given a higher rank. If this criterion fails to break ties, the candidates concerned will be awarded the same rank.
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The woman had booked a cab around 5PM from the airport to go to Palam, but the driver arrived late following which she got into an argument with the cab driver, identified as Rajiv, police said. (PTI)
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Secular forces will join hands to defeat BJP in Bihar, says Jairam Ramesh:</br><br> Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has expressed confidence that all "secular forces" would join hands to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in forthcoming elections in Bihar. "Bihar elections would be the third nail in BJP's coffin. First nail was Delhi elections and the second nail was the Land Acquisition Bill," the former Union Minister said. On uncertainty over the merger of Janata Parivar outfits before the polls later this year, he said, "Lot of shadow-boxing that goes on." But the Rajya Sabha member hastened to add, "I am sure ultimately all the secular forces will get together to ensure that the BJP gets the treatment it deserves in Bihar." (PTI)
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Lalu invites Manjhi for joint fight against BJP, JD(U) upset:</br><br> RJD chief Lalu Prasad caused disquiet in JD(U) with remarks that former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi be part of the "broader unity" against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Manjhi, a detractor of Kumar, has floated Hindustani Awam Party after being ousted as chief minister and is said to be veering towards the BJP. "Be it merger or alliance, there is a need for broader unity of parties to fight together against BJP…Manjhi and others shall come forward for this," the RJD president said. State JD(U) president Basistha Narayan Singh said there was "no point" in bringing Manjhi into the picture due to his reported proximity to BJP. (PTI)
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Indian-origin TV actress Shobna Gulati among phone-hack pay-outs in UK:</br><br> A popular Indian-origin television actress Shobna Gulati is among a string of UK celebrities who won pay-outs worth 1.2 million pounds from the Mirror Group of newspapers which was charged with hacking phones of public figures. Shobna Gulati won 117,500 pounds in damages after a three-week hearing at London's High Court over the extent of phone hacking at the newspaper titles owned by the group. Gulati, popular in Britain for her role as Sunita Alahan in the long-running TV soap 'Coronation Street', former England football star Paul Gascoigne and six others were awarded damages totalling 1.2 million pounds after Justice Mann said the victims had all suffered a "serious infringement of privacy" and the scale of hacking had been "very substantial". (PTI)
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Responding to queries related to the smartphone, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said: "The government through various departments is taking steps to protect the interest of consumers." In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, he said a complaint has been received against the company by the Department of Revenue under Ministry of Finance. (PTI)
