Shradha Chettri

Last year, 12 students from one of the two institutions — Telangana Tribal Welfare Residential Gurukulam — got admissions in colleges under Delhi University for the first time, sparking a buzz back home.

Problems were also faced by students regarding OBC certificates. One, issued in March 2018, was turned away at a renowned college. This was because the university has said colleges can accept OBC non-creamy layer certificates issued only after April 2018.

DU cut-off 2018: This year, BA programme was the second most applied course with 1,05,818 applications — next only to English.

DU admissions 2018: The Indian Express on June 15 had reported that the university, in a meeting with college representatives, said it would create an interface called the "cut-off finder".

Apart from the mode of examination, Persons With Disability (PWD) complained about distant exam centres being allotted for different subjects on the same day.

DU reserves 27% seats for OBC category applicants (non-creamy layer, central list). Colleges have to ensure that a student’s caste is included in the OBC central list as well as the list notified by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

St Stephen’s College, which released its first list on Monday, saw its cut-off increase — indicating that this could be the trend for other colleges as well.

Since May 9, evaluation rooms in colleges have been locked. Teachers called the protest against the MHRD and UGC, changing rules on reservation for SC/ST/OBCs, as well as the autonomous scheme.

A journalism teacher at Kamala Nehru College said applications for this course have increased as candidates see the job potential afterwards. “Students feel that journalism has a direction and there is some sense of job security,” she said.

English (Hons) also has a high cut-off — 98.5% for commerce students — similar to last year. For science students, it is 98%. Admissions, however, will take place following an aptitude test and an interview.

Until a few days ago, differently-abled students applying to postgraduate courses at Delhi University were unaware that the entrance examination will be held online.

While the younger ones are taught in the tent, there’s a separate “classroom” for the 20 older schoolgoing students — a slab meant to build a flyover.

Pakistan's name has also been struck off from the list of participating countries. "Besides inputs from agencies, a major consideration is state of relationship. Participation of Pakistan or any other country is a reflection of state of relationship with that country." MEA official spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.

Meanwhile, four colleges — Deshbandhu, Ramanujan, Satyawati (Evening) and Sri Aurobindo College — are accepting applications from students under the “best physique” or bodybuilding category.

While Delhi University requires a certificate from a government hospital stating that an applicant suffers from a disability, the Delhi government is yet to notify rules of the Disability Act 2016.

There are 23 vocational courses offered in government schools, but only a few are listed in the DU admission form.

The centre will work in liaison with various academic departments of the university to ensure inclusion of disability in undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes run by departments either directly or through colleges

CBSE results 2018: In a year when CBSE had decided to do away with spiking of marks, an analyst looks at scoring patterns in three Class XII papers and asks why an exact 95% is once again more frequent than other scores.

According to data for 2018, the Delhi-National Capital Region has the highest concentration of CBSE schools, with the states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana accounting for nearly half of the 11,510 CBSE-affiliated schools across the country.