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Despite the temporary relief,the heat situation is predicted to get worse in the coming days,as is the scene on the power front.

City looks at outages as states cite Act banning power sale
Despite the temporary relief,the heat situation is predicted to get worse in the coming days,as is the scene on the power front.

While outages have already begun,officials are further worried by the fact that some states have evoked Section 11 of the Electricity Act,which allows states to curb power-generating plants from selling electricity to other states. Power Secretary Rajendra Kumar said: It has affected us as our discoms had entered into agreements with power-generating units of some other states.

DU pushes through revised Science syllabuses
A meeting of Delhi Universitys Faculty of Science on Monday passed the revised syllabus of all 10 departments under it in just over three hours.

The DU faculty have been stonewalling Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pentals attempts at pushing through the implementation of the semester system at the undergraduate level for the next academic year. Academic Council member Abha Dev Habib said a DU Teachers Association (DUTA) team had met with the faculty of the Anthropology department on Friday. Twelve of 14 members took a stand aligning with DUTA and opposing the implementation of the semester system, Habib said. But a syllabus was somehow drawn up in two days and approved on Monday.

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