“We have a foolproof plan for the entry of foreign universities. Any foreign varsity entering India will have to create a $12-million corpus fund and profits will not be allowed to be expatriated to shareholders,” Kapil told reporters here on the margins of a function.

Allaying concerns over the Foreign Educational Institutions (regulation of entry and operation, maintenance of quality and prevention of commercialisation) Bill, Sibal said they would have to re-invest 75 percent of profit in the school or university and the rest would become a part of the corpus fund.

“The bill is in line with the 2020 vision of top management guru C.K. Prahalad to create an educated talent pool with access to higher education for about 200 million people,” Sibal said.

Though foreign universities will have the right to form their own fee structure and admission rules, they will have to function within the purview of the Indian regulatory system, as envisaged in the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009.

“If we realise this vision through universalisation of education, attaining double digit growth and economic prosperity will be possible,” Sibal pointed out.

Sibal was in this tech hub to deliver the Vithal Chandavarkar memorial lecture at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

Chandavarkar was an industrialist, who served as Mayor of Bombay (now Mumbai) and also as vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai.

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The petitioner minority institutions said that the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, is contrary to provisions of Article 14, 21A, 30 and 45 of the constitution in respect of the rights of the unaided private educational institution including the minority institutions.

The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar passed the order after counsel for the petitioners said that there were many provision in the act that infringed the rights of the private and minority educational institution.

The court was told that the act provides for 25 percent reservation for weaker and disadvantaged groups which was at variance with the apex court constitution bench judgment on the issue.

Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told the court that the petitioner institutions have raised some valid points that needed to be looked into.

The court was also told that right to education law provides for the reimbursement of the expenditure incurred on imparting education to students from weaker and disadvantageous section under the 25 percent reservation category.

However, the gap between what the state would reimburse and the expenditure that an institution would incur on such students would be huge, the petitioners said.

The petitioner said that the act prohibits minority institutions from carrying out any screening test of either the students or their parents.

The court was told that this provision of the right to education law infringed upon the right of the educational institutions to adopt their own admission policy.

The petitioner institutions also objected to the provision in the law that poor students should be admitted without verifying their age.

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The vote count will take place across the state Nov 24, he said.

About 55 million people will be eligible to vote in the country’s third most populous state. The total electorate was put at 5,50,88,402.

Quraishi said that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) would be deployed in all the 56,943 polling stations.

The election will be overseen by thousands of officials, including those deputed to the Election Commission, besides thousands of security forces.

The top official said that the model code of conduct would come into immediate effect.

He said the Election Commission took into consideration all relevant factors including the climatic condition, academic schedule and law and order situation before deciding the polling dates.

In less than 24-hours of the announcement of the results of Delhi University Students Union’s (DUSU) polls, in which ABVP bagged three out of four posts including DUSU President, the jubilant Delhi BJP unit has reconstituted its team giving more importance to former ABVP leaders and former office bearers of the Delhi University Students Union.

Former DUSU President Nakul Bhardwaj has been elevated to head of BJP’s youth wing. Nakul contested last MLA election in Delhi but could not make it. Many former office bearers of the DUSU have been given important offices in the reconstituted team. These include Vijay Jolly, Ashish Sood, Narendra Tondon and others. Ashish Sood has been given charge of General Secretary along with Pravesh Verma and MLA Ramesh Bidhuri while the Vijay Jolly, a former MLA from Saket, has been given post of Vice President of Delhi BJP. Poonam Azad, wife of Kirti Azad, too has been included in the list of 10 Vice- Presidents. Narendra Tondon has been given post of Secretary in Delhi BJP unit.

It is notable that present BJP President Vijendra Gupta has himself been an office-bearer of DUSU and active leader of ABVP in the past. The ABVP, though denies any link with BJP openly and says that it is a separate outfit. Commenting about the new team Delhi BJP President Vijendra Gupta says that the team has been made more “youthful” with the changes.
‘Mahila Morcha’ (women’s wing) of the party will be headed by Shikha Roy.

“People will have free access to the huge data obtained from our first moon mission on a web portal that will be launched by this year-end,” a senior scientist of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

“The data has been split into two seasons, with the first dealing from November 2008 to February 2009 and the second from March to August 2009. The first season data will be archived by year-end and the second by mid-2011,” said ISRO’s space application centre director B. Gopala Krishna.

A total of 26 gigabytes of data and images will be uploaded after archiving the first season.

The archives will include chemical and mineral mapping, high resolution three-dimensional mapping and topographical features.

The state-run ISRO launched the 514 kg mooncraft onboard the polar satellite launch vehicle Oct 22, 2008 from its spaceport Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, about 80 km northeast of Chennai.

The Rs.3.9-billion Chandrayaan was the first mooncraft to have confirmed the presence of water on the moon.

After a 10-month rendezvous with the earth’s only natural satellite, the mission was terminated Aug 30, 2009 when the space agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN) at Bylalu, about 40 km from here, lost radio contact with Chandrayaan after computers onboard became non-functional.

“Though the dedicated portal will have a catalogue of the data, specific information will be made available for students and scholars pursuing research in space exploration,” Krishna said.

Indian space scientists are currently reviewing the voluminous data, including about 70,000 images relayed to DSN by the 10 scientific instruments Chandrayaan carried to the lunar orbit, about 100 km from the moon’s surface and over 400,000 km from the earth.

“Our scientists from various planetary groups are beginning to peer review the data from 10 of the 11 payloads. The same will be made accessible to the public as the lock-in period for the principal investigators of the mission to analyse will end by December,” Krishna said.

Of the 11 instruments, five were Indian and six were from the US and Europe.

ISRO scientists have used the planetary data system, developed by the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for preservation and utilisation of the archived information.

“We are also in the process of generating a topographical atlas and a mineralogical atlas of the moon from the data,” Krishna noted.

Detailed mapping of moon’s mineralogy and topography will pave way for further research possibilities.

“We will prepare an atlas of the moon with latitude, longitude, colours of areas, ice water, minerals and terrain from the sheets of topography in the data,” Krishna added.

Chandrayaan accomplished 95 percent of its scientific and technological objectives before its mission was called off prematurely. It had been programmed to orbit the moon for nearly two years.

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SECOND MERIT ORDER LIST OF RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES
S.No. Roll No. Name
1 017667 K V TIRUMALA
2 112652 PRABHAT RANJAN
3 057459 SUNIL JOSHI
4 240333 PANKAJ KUMAR
5 073885 SWATI CHULET
6 019322 PUNEETINDER SINGH WALIA
7 016385 RACHITA SATYAWADI
8 006689 KUMAR ASEEM VAIBHAV
9 002719 SUNIL BISHNOI
10 002360 DIPTI SACHDEVA
11 004727 CHOUDHARY TAPASYA RATNAKAR
12 003738 NAVEEN SINGHVI
13 046344 KRISHNA V R
14 015504 PRASANNA KUMAR B K
15 178323 DHAKANE VIKAS NAVANATH
16 002898 ABHISHEK SINGH
17 007428 SATYA BRATA
18 131323 SHRIHARSHA SHETTI
19 007867 RATNESH KUMAR SINGH
20 003279 TAMBAVEKAR CHANDRASHEKHAR ANIL
21 002756 RASHMI SHARMA
22 011053 ESHA PANDEY
23 092794 M SRINIVASU
24 219657 S JAYAKUMAR
25 101985 SAURABH SINGH
26 003385 SHAMBHU KUMAR
27 011952 ANUPAM SAHAY
28 172501 VARISH CHANDRA SHUKLA
29 047012 RITESH KUMAR SINGH
30 019931 VADODARIA KARANJIT PARSOTAM
31 007874 NIMISHA JHA
32 282719 KORGAONKAR CHINMAY NANDKUMAR
33 005077 PRAVEEN KUMAR TRIPATHI
34 008490 B CHANDRA MOHIYAR
35 086887 GHAG SUPRIYA SURENDRANATH
36 034061 MADHUR AGRAWAL
37 007754 APOORVA BHARADWAJ
38 216011 SANJAY KUMAR
39 002563 RAMESH HOLEYACHI
40 016126 GARGI MALIK
41 101472 PAWAN KUMAR
42 086374 SUKHSOHIT
43 005269 D PRAVEEN
44 218804 UMESH PRATAP SINGH
45 006582 SUBRAT PAL
46 005500 REKHAWAR RAHUL ASHOK
47 004845 RAJAT MITTAL
48 019836 PANKAJ DWIVEDI
49 297976 PRAVEEN VERMA
50 021081 MUGDHA RANADE
51 031408 PRANJALYA PARTH LATHE
52 214694 SIKANDRA SINGH
53 040010 SUNIL KUMAR PANDEY
54 093002 VISHNU KANT TIWARI
55 139482 PRASHANT MASTIHOLI
56 083144 ARUN GUPTA
57 112412 RAJEEV KUMAR AMBASTA
58 001144 PRASHANT KUMAR AGRAWAL
59 008246 RAHUL
60 018830 RAGHAVENDRA H
61 055428 ATUL PRAKASH MISHRA
62 003484 YASHASVI KUMAR
63 013175 ARUN KUMAR JHA
64 044137 DIPIN SINGLA
65 003111 AMIT SINGH MEHRA
66 002670 PATEL MITAL SHANKARLAL
67 314743 HINA ARORA
68 034465 ROSHAN M THOMAS
69 117505 JAYABALAJI J
70 060753 MUKESH KUMAR
71 234821 SHANTHA KUMAR S
72 006098 DINESH KUMAR MISTRY
73 112717 DEVENDRA KUMAR
74 014289 SUJEET KUMAR
75 014444 B VIJAY DATTA
76 056743 PANKAJ KUMAR
77 018112 PREETY VERMA
78 014816 MAHAJAN SAMADHAN RAGHUNATH
79 024809 SAMSHER ALI
80 058243 RAN VIJAI SINGH
81 193061 S PRAKAKARAN
82 288244 SONAWANE ATUL ARUN
83 098669 PROMILA JAISWAL
84 012951 NIRAJ KUMAR
85 191887 VEERENDRA KUMAR VERMA
86 006359 NEHA NIGAM
87 318994 MAN MOHAN SINGH

Source: PIB

The Vice-President’s post bagged by ABVP’s Priya Dabas with 8679 votes while Neetu Dabas of ABVP has been elected for Secretary’s post with 9197 votes. NSUI’s Akshay Kumar has been elected for Jt. Secretary post with 6831 votes.

The polling for DUSU was held on 3rd September. About 37 percent students exercised their vote during the elections and over 933 EVMs were used for the voting. 111 centres and 12 control rooms were established for polls.

The former Curtin University tutor invited a vulnerable foreign student to his house and asked her to “satisfy him” for higher marks, Australian new agency AAP reported Thursday citing the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC).

The CCC, in its report tabled in parliament Thursday, said that the Chinese woman, in her early 20s, was one of four international students whom Dr. Nasrul Ali pressured for sex in exchange for higher marks.

The CCC found one of the students was asked to meet Nasrul Ali at a McDonald’s restaurant to discuss her marks. At their 7 p.m. meeting, Dr. Ali told her it was too noisy and asked her back to his home nearby, the report said.

“Dr. Ali asked (her) how a Chinese student would normally have satisfied a Chinese teacher, to which (she) responded by telling him a Chinese student would try to be a good student and get good grades,” the CCC said in its report.

“According to (the student), it was then that he told her that she could live with him. At this time, Dr. Ali had his arm along the back of the couch behind her which made her feel uncomfortable.”

The academic then said “he wanted her to try and satisfy him, that he wanted her to stay the night (but) she told him that she did not have time” and left.

The CCC said Dr. Ali also conducted night-time meetings with two other Chinese students and suggested they could make up for their low marks through “non-academic” means.

The three Chinese women were being financially supported by their families and had to pass the courses or risk losing their student visas, the CCC report said.

It found that while there was no sexual contact between Dr. Ali and the students, he did target “young, vulnerable, full fee-paying overseas female students”.

The CCC also found Dr. Ali reduced the marks of a fourth female student from Indonesia because he was angry with her when she did not meet him while they were separately visiting Malaysia.

Curtin University Vice-Chancellor Jeanette Hacket said Dr. Ali was employed as a casual in the university’s School of Economics and Finance in 2004 and was sacked in mid-2009, shortly after the allegations of misconduct arose.

Hackett said she was aware Dr. Ali was now working as a finance lecturer at another university, which has now been confirmed as Murdoch University.

At the time of his employment, Curtin University did not conduct any background screenings or police checks of employees, Prof. Hacket said.

“The university now has in place a sessional staff policy and procedure in which every person employed at Curtin will undergo rigorous screening,” she said Thursday.

Prof. Hacket said the university had written to the students and apologised, while also refunding their tuition fees for the courses.

The vice-chancellor admitted the CCC’s investigation had exposed weaknesses in the university’s policies and procedures.

Curtin had already taken “prompt and vigorous action” to address these issues, she added.

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The DUTA pointed out that no Vice-Chancellor whose term has expired can continue in office until the Visitor (President of India) specifically directs him to do so. “Prof. Deepak Pental is notorious for bringing international disrepute the University and the country by selling radioactive gamma irradiator to a scrap dealer and then keeping mum over it when the whole country was looking for the source of radioactive leak in Delhi”, says DUTA in a statement.
“The police instead of arresting the ‘illegal’ VC who is responsible for deaths in Cobalt-60 case have arrested teachers who are protesting against his illegal continuation”, the DUTA says adding that these arrests will have serious impact to precipitate further crisis in the University.

The teachers were later on released by late evening.

What is your agenda? The question is haunting candidates of Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election very badly. All candidates of the DUSU elections have almost same kind of agenda.

Though, the candidates are diplomatically using the word ‘students’ welfare’ but when anybody or any group of students ask to elaborate the term they do not have much to say that appears like USP among the students. Candidates from NSUI, ABVP, SFI and others have two major agenda while they campaign in the day colleges- students’ eviction from the hostel on the name of Commonwealth Games and Semester System.

But in evening colleges both the issues do not work as evening colleges do not have hostel facilities for its students and no evening college has introduced semester system as there is no science courses in the evening colleges. “This is a genuine problem. But we can not ignore evening colleges because they cast their votes in cadre”, says Akshay, a NSUI candidate.

But agenda too not work in these colleges. Personal relationship matters in evening colleges, says an ABVP candidate. If seniors help votes can easily come to the candidates, he says.

But why the agenda is not important for the candidates? “Because, nobody has time to listen you. Moreover, candidates too have not much time to explain these as they have to meet thousands of students”, says Aprajita Raja, a candidate for President’s post. The best way is posters and cards so that students can remember your number and name during the cast of the vote, she adds.