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SC extends stay on AICTE guidelines

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended its stay on the AICTE guidelines to regulate admission,fees and curriculum of private management colleges offering Post Graduate Diploma in Management courses for the year 2012-13. The court also gave AICTE a go-ahead for its proposed national-level exam for admission in management institutes. The bench said one national exam could be brought in place of the existing five national-level entrance examinations permitted by it earlier.

Militants kill couple in Manipur

IMPHAL: A 35-year-old man and his wife were shot dead in front of their three children at an isolated village in Manipurs Ukhrul district bordering Myanmar,a delayed official report said on Tuesday. The report said about six suspected militants in military uniform barged into the house of Vareingam Mahonao Shimray,a teacher and a NREGS worker,and gunned down Shimray and his wife,Ngaherla 33 on Sunday night. No individual or group has claimed responsibility.

Sanjay Dutt to stay away from politics

MUMBAI: Actor Sanjay Dutt,who was briefly associated with a political party,wants to stay away from politics as he finds acting in Bollywood better. I had gone to UP for three months. I think acting in Bollywood is better than acting on the dais, Dutt said in an interview. He had earlier resigned as SP general secretary expressing sadness over the way mentor Amar Singh was treated.