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CCTV cameras to be installed at Allahabad University

held on AU campus on Wednesday. Among various decisions, it was decided at the meeting that close circuit television (CCTV) sets would be installed at different areas of AU and that the varsity authorities will hold regular meetings with district administration.will be installed at different offices, gates, and hostels etc to monitor the activities of students and inmates. Apart from this, details...

Source : Times Of India | 7 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Governor attends GU court meeting

Patnaik said a university court can be compared with a "legislative assembly" where it reviews the annual report and the annual budget of the university and approves its various plans and programmes. The recommendations would be carried out by the executive council and the VC as the executive head.The governor added that the European Business Assembly has selected GU as the best regional university...

Source : Times Of India | 8 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Beacons flash despite court orders

a show of power at the secretariat on Wednesday when more than 50 government cars with beacons surrounded Fort St George, just a day after the Supreme Court ordered limits on usage of the red lights. A three-day collectors' conference was taking place, and every white car on the premises — from the home secretary's to the district collectors' — had the distinctive red bubble-like light on its roof...

Source : Times Of India | 12 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

VC says jobs, ex-gratia to suicide victims' kin; students call of strike

protest the suicides by dalit scholars on campus, called off their fast after authorities announced that they had written to the ministry of human resource development asking them to sanction two jobs for the victims' family members.Two dalit students - P Raju and M Venkatesh - had committed suicide recently, causing huge outrage among students. Venkatesh had ended his life after not being allotted...

Source : Times Of India | 14 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Central Information Commission slaps fine on transport official

imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 on a former senior official of Delhi transport department for failing to provide information to an RTI applicant. Exercising his right to information, Yash Pal Arora had last year sought information related to the issuance of fitness certificate, permit renewal and smart card permit of an autorickshaw from Delhi transport department."The owner of the autorickshaw (Manish...

Source : Times Of India | 14 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Former babu jailed for graft

two years rigorous imprisonment for amassing disproportionate assets of Rs 25 lakh during his service from 1965 to 2001. Special CBI judge Sanjeev Jain awarded the jail term to 70-year-old Virender Singh, former project director in, after holding him guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. A fine of Rs 5 lakh was also imposed on Singh. The court, however, suspended the...

Source : Times Of India | 15 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Nirbhaya case: Two convicts allege breach of procedure

contended before the Delhi high court that police had arrested them without following proper procedure.Appearing for two of the convicts before a bench of justices Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani, advocate M L Sharma alleged the convicts were arrested without any evidence, on the basis of media reports.The lawyer also claimed convict Mukesh, brother of main accused Ram Singh, was arrested from a village...

Source : Times Of India | 15 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

SC order will spark another fight: Gay prince

prince of the erstwhile state of Rajpipla and icon for gay rights in India, expressed disappointment at theorder of Wednesday that restored homosexuality as a criminal offence. Gohil, however, said that this was just the beginning of another phase of their struggle for acceptance."While the news may sound disappointing, I see a ray of hope in it. The Supreme Court has suggested that Parliament can...

Source : Times Of India | 15 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

Gizmo to purify water in disaster zones

(NID) began a day after the Uttarakhand floods occurred and that calamity left a deep impact on Ishani Ghosh. Following the news religiously, she got to understand the morbidity of such disasters; from mass scale displacement of livelihoods, temporary rehabilitations to lack of supply of adequate pure drinking water. The idea to develop a clean drinking water supply that will take into account factors...

Source : Times Of India | 15 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot

More eggs laid in Gujarat

per annum per individual in the country, a Gujarati gets only 23 eggs per annum. Officials of animal husbandry department, however, said that the state has moved up in production. With egg production reaching 145.58 crore in 2012-13 from 82 crore in 2007-08, the state now ranks 10th in the country compared to 14th in 2008.states that egg production in 2012-13 increased by 9% from the 2011-12 figure...

Source : Times Of India | 16 Hour(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Rajkot