Aranya Shankar

Many principals said more students had turned up than they expected, with lawns and corridors in some colleges packed chock-a-block.

Several colleges had made elaborate arrangements to welcome back students. At Miranda House and Shri Ram College of Commerce huge hoardings were put up on Covid protocols to make students aware

While final year/semester students are largely relieved that they will be back on campus soon, students of the first or intermediate semesters/years have expressed concern regarding their re-entry.

One of the main concerns is from first-year students, for whom exams begin in the second week of March. There is no clarity yet if these will now be held offline with campus reopening or in the online mode as was originally planned.

Universities in the capital like Jawaharlal Nehru University and Ambedkar University Delhi have already announced 100% re-opening.

The handle, which had tweets calling Jamia Millia Islamia and St Stephen’s College “communal campuses”, used slurs for Indian Christians and described civil rights activists as “mentally-ill jihadists”, was deleted following the uproar on Monday.

The Left students' bodies also held joint protests, organising a 'chakka jam' outside the university's arts faculty building.

Last month, the DU administration accepted the report by retired Delhi High Court judge Justice S N Dhingra, which found irregularities in the purchase of library books for the college and asked Principal Inderjeet Dagar to proceed on leave till further orders so that more inquiries can be conducted.

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As per the new framework, to get a four-year UG degree with a major in a specific discipline, students need to get a minimum of 50% of credits (88) in that discipline.

Lt Gen Satish Dua (retd), former Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff, also tweeted in favour of the move.

“The flame of the Amar Jawan Jyoti is not being extinguished. It is being merged with the flame at the National War Memorial," government sources said.

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The Indian Express had reported in September 2020 that 180 books worth Rs 1 lakh had been bought for the library but never reached it.

Sonu Pandey, 24, an employee at a pen-drive manufacturer in Okhla, also lost his life in the Vaishno Devi stampede. He got married just seven months ago.

🔴 Ranjan Puri, owner of the Grand Imperia banquet hall in Azadpur, said the government should have made some long term plans rather than shutting down banquet halls altogether.

In an announcement on the university website, the ICC said the first such session, scheduled for January 17, is being held “to make the students (both boys and girls) aware about what consists of sexual harassment”.

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DU Teachers’ Association (DUTA) President A K Bhagi came down heavily on the order saying it could create issues for the adhoc faculty who were to join the colleges from Saturday.

🔴 On being asked as to what is holding DU from inviting students from all years to colleges, the V-C, in an interview with The Indian Express, said: Our situation is very different from schools. School students are local students while ours are from all states. We have to see the status of Covid in those states also…"

🔴 In an interview with The Indian Express, DU V-C Yogesh Singh said, “In the present system, there are issues which are to be addressed. We cannot ignore the performances of students of different boards, like Uttar Pradesh Board... They are not liberal vis-à-vis other boards."

Delhi University wants to start with 120 seats for each programme and has sought the UGC’s permission to sanction about 70 faculty positions for the three departments.

The Indian Express had reported on November 10 that AUD had taken “serious note” of the matter and sent emails to the teachers from Karampura campus, asking them to provide “valid reasons” for their absenteeism from the November 2 event.

Former HoD Veena Kukreja had died of post-Covid complications on May 14. In the interim, Saxena was made the officiating HoD.