February, 2018 | DIN NEWS

MU’s highest authority too can’t relax 50% attendance rule: HC

February 11, 2018 strong

The Bombay High Court has held that the Mumbai University’s ordinance mandating a minimum 50 per cent attendance was in the interest of students and thus, even the highest authority in the university had no power to allow any undue relaxation in the rule. In the order passed on Thursday, a bench of justices B R Gavai and B P Colabawalla also held that the discretionary powers over students’ attendance was vested only with the colleges’ respective attendance committees and their principals and that the university can’t claim to be…

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Shortage of judges in higher judiciary saddening: Khurshid

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Former Union law minister Salman Khurshid has said the shortage of judges in the higher judiciary was “saddening” and called for steps to address the issue at the earliest. Khurshid, himself a senior advocate, said that right to justice should get the attention similar to that of ‘Swachh Bharat’ programme and there were some “fundamental flaws” in the judicial system. “We don’t have an appellate judiciary which is stable at the top. Number of Chief Justices serve a very short tenure,” he said at the conclave — ‘The Rule of…

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Germany won’t lecture EU economies: new finance minister

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Germany will no longer lecture other European countries over their economies, the next finance minister of the eurozone’s richest nation said today. Olaf Scholz, of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) that this week struck a deal to reform Germany’s so-called grand coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Germany “doesn’t need to dictate to other European states how they run themselves”. “Mistakes have certainly been made in the past,” Scholz told Der Speigel magazine, an apparent reference to the policy of his predecessor Wolfgang Schauble, who oversaw Germany’s oft-criticised massive…

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Fiscal situation should be comfortable next financial year: FM

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday exuded confidence that there will be no more fiscal slippages as the financial position is likely to be comfortable from the next fiscal. Brushing aside any need to worry about rising global oil prices, Jaitley said an assessment should not be made based on hypothetical situation concerning crude prices as the trend in the last three days has been the opposite (with prices falling again). He added that at this stage he was not worried about any slippages on the fiscal front. Addressing a…

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UK minister backs right to ban hijab in schools

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An Indian-origin school principal, who was forced to withdraw a ban on wearing of hijab by young girls after vitriolic abuse on social media, today received crucial support of a UK minister who said bullying or intimidation of school staff was completely unacceptable. Lord Theodore Agnew, Minister for schools systems, faith and counter-extremism in education, also said that schools in the country were completely within their right to make decisions on how to run their institutions in the best interests of their pupils. Neena Lall, an Indian-origin principal of the…

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Pence upstaged by 2 Koreas’ efforts to warm ties

February 11, 2018 strong

US Vice President Mike Pence’s efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics proved to be short-lived, quickly drowned out by the images of the two Koreas marching and competing together, as the South appeared to look favourably on warming ties on the Korean Peninsula. Pence spent the days leading up to the games warning that the North was trying to “hijack the message and imagery of the Olympic Games” with its “propaganda.” But the North was still welcomed with open arms to what South…

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Abbas seeks India’s role in peace process as PM Modi visits Palestine

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Mahmoud Abbas on a historic visit to Palestine during which the Palestinian President sought India’s support for a multi-country mechanism to achieve a “just and desired peace” with Israel in accordance with the two-state solution. President Abbas accorded a red carpet welcome to Modi, the first Indian Prime Minister to make an official visit to Palestine, in an official ceremony at the presidential compound, also known as Muqata’a, in Ramallah – the Palestinian seat of government. They discussed the full range of India-Palestine ties…

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Rafale ‘biggest issue’ of corruption, PM should reply: Rahul

February 11, 2018February 11, 2018 strong

Intensifying his attack on the Centre over the Rafale fighter jet deal, Rahul Gandhi today alleged it was the biggest issue of corruption in the country and asked the prime minister to reply why he took the contract from HAL and gave it to a “friend”. Launching the Congress poll campaign in Karnataka’s Ballari district, Gandhi took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for criticising policies of previous Congress governments saying he is running the country “by looking in just rear-view mirror” which as led to “mistakes like GST…

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Vardhman InternationaI Public School Rated among 10 Best Schools In Faridabad : Times Group Survey

February 10, 2018February 10, 2018 strong

Vardhman International Public School has been rated 7th among the 10 best schools in Faridabad as per the Times group survey report .In an exclusive interview with our Chief Editor Mr Kunal Tuli The principal of the school Ms Sapna Jain shared that the School is imparting quality education. We concentrate on the base points of education vs proper reading, writing, learning, understanding, taking dictation in rapid fire good handwriting, tables and matras. Along with base points, we teach life skills to the students and we enrich our dear students…

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India eye milestone win, South Africa hope for revival

February 10, 2018 strong

India’s indomitable cricket team looks set for a landmark series triumph but an injury- ravaged South Africa would hope for some A B de Villiers magic to halt the visitors’ charge in the fourth one-dayer, here on Saturday. With an unassailable 3-0 lead in hand, India need just one more win to claim their maiden ODI series triumph on the South African soil. The closest they came was in 2010-11, when under Mahendra Singh Dhoni, they shot into a 2-1 lead only to lose the five- match series 3-2. India…