Новости за 24.07.2015

In a desperate bid to avoid embarrassment, Lucknow University vice-chancellor SB Nimse on Friday shot off a letter to 13 departments, directing them to work overnight and finish evaluation work and declare results of postgraduate courses within two days. The governor is set to meet vice-chancellors to assess performance of universities on July 27. The deadline set by the governor for declaration of results was June 30.

The medical college of the private SOA University here was closed sine die on Friday following students' unrest in the wake of alleged suicide by a first year MBBS boarder.

The state government on Friday made it mandatory for two-wheeler dealers in the state to include helmets in the list of accessories while selling bikes.The move is to check the growing number of road accidents in Odisha.

Residents of Masinagudi panchayat, in the Nilgiris, are concerned about the water supply and lack of sanitation in the region, as repeated requests with the authorities have fallen on deaf ears.

Attacking its weakest links first, the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has swung into poll preparation mode and identified 169 assembly seats in UP where its candidates had lost in the 2012 assembly elections. To strengthen the party’s position in these assembly constituencies, senior party functionaries began on Thursday what will be a series of strategy meetings to identify ways to improve SP’s performance and to identify suitable candidates for the seats, well before the election process is officially notified.

In a jolt to food supplies and consumer welfare minister Sanjay Dasburma, the Orissa high court on Friday rejected his plea to quash a petition of Congress leader Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra alleging large-scale irregularities in Brahmagiri assembly constituency during 2014 elections.

The Supreme Court on Friday firmly declined to entertain the trend of flaunting religious beliefs to seek immunity from dress code.

The bunds of the sprawling Valankulam tank, which remained an encroacher's paradise for several years, would soon turn into a recreational hub for denizens.

S Mahalakshmi, a school topper in commerce stream, has a dream: to become a chartered accountant (CA). But her financial constraints had almost dissuaded her from working towards her aim as CA coaching classes are quite expensive.

In a show of solidarity with animal lovers across the world, activists and canine lovers of the city will hold a protest at GPO on Sunday against Kerala government’s decision to cull street dogs. They have also given a call to boycott Kerala tourism and its products.

Next week onwards, you can regulate the consumption of electricity in your house and take control of paying the bill.

With Delhi government scrapping its 5.8km bus rapid transit system (BRTS) corridor, citizen activists and experts believe that the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) should not fall into the same trap.

“When I joined IIT, I didn’t know what engineering was all about. I had studied the various subjects required for it, but it took a while to fully understand the larger context and develop concepts on my own,” said Akshay Krishna, one of the 2,234 graduates of IIT-M this year who received their degrees on Friday.

The Shivam Shukla death case got a little more muddled up on Friday with the investigation team discovering a glaring mismatch between the records of Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and CCTV footage from the private surgical clinic where the 21-year-old was operated upon.

The Uttar Pradesh police have dismissed suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur’s complaint against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on the grounds that the charges could not be substantiated.

The Deccan Gymkhana police on Friday recorded the statements of some students and employees of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in an unlawful assembly case filed by institute's staffer Sanjay Chandekar against 10 students on July 22.

The state government has withdrawn the government resolution (GR) issued on April 30 and directed that 25% reserved seats should be filled as per the earlier regulation, which included admissions to pre-primary classes as well.

Professors at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad have developed a new system to identify and transmit only anomalous ECG signals to the diagnostic centre, thereby saving more than 80% of the bandwidth and power without significantly sacrificing diagnostic accuracy.

City-based Parisar has alleged that Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) draft rules to grant permissions for pandals to be erected during festivals are deficient as they have not adequately addressed the instructions given by the Bombay high court in the matter.

Senior IAS officer SP Singh, who has been in news for his comments against rampant corruption in the state, has sought voluntary retirement from service. He disclosed this through social media on Thursday midnight. “Today being the birth anniversary of Chandrashekhar Azad, I thought this was just the right occasion to take this step so that I could emulate him and contribute my bit for the society,” he told TOI.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will table a draft policy for putting up of pandals for celebrations or any public function before the General Body (GB) meeting next week.

The Times of India Group has announced launch of 'Sketch to Store' an initiative which aims to scout for and mould the next fashion designing icon of the country.