In fact, many sought after courses and colleges closed applications after filling up the seats with the first cut-off itself — as is the case in Hindu College and LSR College this year.

At Shri Ram College of Commerce, the cut-off for BCom (Hons) has come down to 97.5% from 97.75%. As the college has already filled 400 of 501 seats, the dip has been kept to a minimum.

According to the DMRC, the afternoon glitch was because of a phenomenon called point flashing — a signalling issue where trains do not attain normal speed and have to cross the point area (affected portion) with restricted speed as a safety measure.

Sources said Lal is posted with the city suspect surveillance (CSS) unit of the special cell and had been on leave since June 20. “He was transferred from the Lodhi Colony unit of special cell to CSS around four months ago. He was earlier posted with the SWAT team,” sources said.

To curb the rise in snatching incidents in the northwest district, the DCP had made a plan to deploy special police pickets for two hours around noon. The DCP was crossing Model Town area when he found the picket abandoned and personnel sitting below a tree.

Residents of Khambi village plan to hold a panchayat on Sunday to decide on the future course of action in the matter — “approaching courts, authorities, government and the general public” — to get justice.

Winding lines outside the Basant Lok outlet indicated the emergence of the big American dream, as Sunday family outings revolved around a visit to the burger joint.

McDonald’s stores of North and East India are handled by Connaught Plaza Restaurants Pvt Ltd (CPRL) — which is a 50:50 joint venture between entrepreneur Vikram Bakshi and the global fast food chain.

“The branches of the Neem tree are still strewn all over the footpath adjacent to the school,” Shefali Mittal, secretary of the Sarvodaya Enclave RWA told The Indian Express

Two main arguments were made in the court of Judicial Magistrate Poorva Mehra, with the prosecution requesting for a Test Identification Parade (TIP) and two-day police custody of the accused.

Around 30,000 posts are lying vacant in schools against the sanctioned strength of 63,000. As a temporary measure, the government has employed 17,000 guest teachers.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be the chief guest and key speaker at the rally — a first where BJP and its allies will participate after winning the Assembly elections.

Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said, “I was born into Hinduism... (But) I won’t tolerate a murder in the name of religion. Abroad, Modi hugs people who eat beef."

"After filing a civil suit/written statement, the litigant cannot go off to sleep and wake up from a deep slumber after a long time... as if the court is a storage unit of such suits filed by negligent litigants,” said the court

Manish Sisodia said, “In the last letter I wrote to HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on December 13, 2016, I requested him to give reservation to students from Delhi in DU admissions.”

There are 12 colleges under DU which are fully funded by the Delhi government. These include Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College and Maharaja Agrasen College.

The civic body has, so far, been sharing space at the Civic Centre with the North Delhi Municipal Corporation. The MoU will be signed Friday in the presence of Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu.

AIIMS officials confirmed that at least 100 samples have been tested between December and June and that “no sample has been tested positive so far”.

“We think that any such inquiry by a non-official committee would be counter-productive and disrespectful to the due process that has been or will be initiated by governmental and quasi-judicial bodies under law,” Sondhi said in a statement.

“Local police rushed to the spot and the situation was brought under control. The crime team of northeast district was also called for spot inspection,” the report said.

Officials said the authority wanted “genuine buyers” to apply and has, as a result, “done away with the provision of surrendering of flats”. The DDA, this time, has planned to make the scheme online.

Sources said the decision was made as the government was convinced that barring restaurants from serving liquor would serve no purpose, as people would drink at other places and cause problems.

“We don’t have a TV at home, so we haven’t watched anything,” said Hashim, 19, who couldn’t go to the march due to recurring pain caused by the stab wounds.

The 34-year-old man was turned away by two private hospitals in the capital due to the complexity of the problem, and given the mortality is as high as 90 per cent.