New Delhi Mar 25 PTI Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday directed the authorities to issue a show-cause notice to the head of a government school in Karampura for alleged laxity according to an official statement Sisodia who also holds the education portfolio paid a surprise visit to Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Kirti Nagar and Government Co-Ed School in I-Block Karmpura and checked the progress of various educational activities During the inspection he also interacted with students During the inspection of the school in Karampura it was found that even though a new building is ready children are still being taught in the old building the statement said Taking immediate cognisance he ordered the officers to issue a show-cause notice against the head of the school He said that there are such great facilities in the school yet children are not able to take advantage of it this is a serious case of laxity He instructed the officials that the students should be shifted to the newly constructed classrooms at the earliest Sisodia found that all mindset curriculums including the Happiness Curriculum are being implemented brilliantly by the school in Kirti Nagar and appreciated the efforts of the school management it said The school has developed three corridors using its own resources in a very unique way The school has created an Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum EMC corridor to inculcate the understanding of this curriculum among children while the aim of the Happiness Corridor is to make the children learn to be happy through various activities The school has constructed the Deshbhakti Corridor to inculcate the feeling of patriotism in the children and to express their gratitude towards martyrs Children in the school have also created a Gratitude Wall to express their gratitude towards each other A herbal garden has also been developed in the school with collective efforts of its teachers and students the statement said PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Mar 25 PTI Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday presented a status report on the AAP governments 2021-22 budget which showed that projects under the Directorate of Education were on track Sisodia presented the fifth consecutive report card of the government in the Delhi Assembly on the progress and achievements of schemes programmes and projects under the Outcome Budget The Outcome Budget was introduced in 2017-18 as a tool linking the budget with outcomes to capture the progress of various schemes programmes and projects and final deliverables from the citizens perspective The Outcome Budget for 2021-22 showed that out of 60 critical indicators of the Directorate of Education 72 per cent were on track In 2020-21 this figure stood at 84 per cent The major initiatives of the directorate include construction of 13181 new classrooms till February 2022 admission of 25327students under the Right to Education installing CCTV cameras in 577 out of 728 government school buildings It also said that Deshbhakti Curriculum and Desh Ke Mentor programme were also rolled out while three lakh children received a seed money of Rs 2000 each under the Business Blasters programme leading to generation of 51000 business ideas For higher education the outcome budget showed that 63 per cent of the indicators were on track It said that 95 per cent of the work has been completed on the east campus of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and it is likely to become functional this year A total of 6820 students have been provided financial assistance of Rs 4814 crore during 2021-22 under the Merit cum Means Linked Financial Assistance Scheme as against Rs 2401 crore provided to 3760 students in 2020-21 the report said The Delhi governments technical education institutes have awarded 84 PhD degrees up to December 312021 against an annual target of 114 PhD degrees while 1670 research papers were published by the faculty of such institutes during the same period as against 1960 papers in 2020-21 PTI SLB SMN

New Delhi Jan 24 PTI Delhi experienced cold day conditions on Monday with the maximum temperature settling at 148 degrees Celsius seven notches below the seasons average The minimum temperature was recorded at 8 degrees Celsius normal for this time of the year A dense cover of fog engulfed the national capital on Monday morning causing difficulty for early morning commuters Almost all parts of Delhi recorded cold to severe cold day conditions the weather department said The maximum temperature at Narela was recorded at 135 degrees Celsius eight notches below normal while at Palam it stood at 148 degrees Celsius six degrees below normal Humidity levels oscillated between 100 per cent and 74 per cent The weatherman has forecast partly cloudy sky for Tuesday with moderate fog in the morning Cold day conditions are likely to prevail at a few places with the maximum and minimum temperatures likely to settle around 16 degrees Celsius and seven degrees Celsius respectively The maximum temperatures have been lower than normal since the second week of January Minimum temperatures have been close to or above normal On Sunday the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 149 degrees Celsius and 105 degrees Celsius respectively PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Dec 16 PTI Senior Delhi University officials including pro-vice-chancellor P C Joshi tendered their resignations on Thursday ahead of a meeting of the Executive Council on Friday when the vice-chancellor is expected to announce his new team According to officials privy to the development Joshi Director of South Campus Suman Kundu Proctor Neeta Sehgal and Dean of Students Welfare Rajeev Gupta submitted their resignations These posts are co-terminus they last till the tenure of the vice-chancellor who made those appointments With Professor Yogesh Singh joining as the vice-chancellor on October 8 they were supposed to resign but were asked to continue till the new appointments were made said an official requesting anonymity Joshi had served as the vice-chancellor before Singhs appointment The Executive Council meeting is scheduled for Friday and Singh is likely to announce his new team Dean of Colleges Balaram Pani had also tendered his resignation but he has been asked to continue on his post PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Nov 30 PTI Online open book examinations of Delhi University commenced on Tuesday with nearly 46000 students appearing in the tests officials said The examinations went smoothly barring a few technical glitches they said According to officials there was a problem with the paper code of a subject in English and the issue was rectified and the students taking that exam were given extra time Officials also said that there were around 100 email submissions while the rest of the students submitted their answer sheets on the designated OBE portal Almost 46000 students took the exams and there were nearly 100 submissions through email which is a very small number The maximum number of email submissions were from Rajdhani College at 63 while the minimum email submissions were from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College at one said D S Rawat Dean Examinations of the university According to the guidelines students are supposed to submit the papers on the OBE portal only All the students are advised not to use any unfair means in writing exam they must be very careful in writing exams system is in place to detect copyinguse of unfair means in the examination according to the guidelines During the June open book examinations OBE over 350 students were caught using unfair means as a result their paper or whole semester was cancelled it said If submission on the portal gets delayed beyond one hour student can use additional one hour to upload the scripts on the OBE portal that is the 5th hour but in that case students have to keep the documentary evidences 4-5 snap shots of the delay in uploading In another words students will have 3 hrs for writing answers 1 hr for downloading question paper and uploading scripts 1 hr for delayed submission for which documentary evidence needs to be submitted the guidelines had said The guidelines said that results of answer scripts submitted by email may get delayed due to verification process as it happened during December and March and June examinations PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Nov 19 PTI Some organisations of students and teachers on Friday hailed the government decision to repeal the three contentious farm laws and took out marches to celebrate the announcement calling it a victory for Indias democratic movement The Students Federation of India took out a solidarity march near the Arts Faculty in Delhi University It becomes pertinent here to mention that this victory did not come easy The audacious nature of our farmers to bear all odds and continue their struggle for almost an entire year is what has led to this victory In this long and arduous struggle more than 700 people have lost their lives SFI Delhi extends its red salutes to the martyrs of this movement said SFIs Mayukh Biswas The Democratic Teachers Front said the announcement is a testimony to the fact that persistent participative and well-organised struggle is capable of reversing the anti-people policies of the Government of India The DTF salutes this great victory of the people Drawing inspiration from this landmark success of the people the DTF resolves to continue our struggle against NEP National Education Policy for absorption of temporary and ad hoc teachers as per correct roster promotion for all and for the democratisation of a revitalised public higher education it said in a statement This requires that Delhi University Teachers Association must remain an organisation for struggle of teachers it said Delhi University students who have been holding a sit-in protest for 12 days to demand the complete reopening of campus gathered at Arts Faculty raising slogans and singing songs after the farm laws were repealed A march was also taken out in solidarity with the farmers and further raising the demand for the repeal of labour codes Citizenship Amendment Act and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act they said PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Oct 28 PTI A private hospital in the national capital recently diagnosed a 70-year-old man with breast cancer according to a statement Increasing instances of male breast cancer are shattering the myth that the disease is restricted only to women However it remains rare occurrence in men and male breast cancer accounts for fewer than one per cent of all cancers diagnosed worldwide it added The patient underwent modified radical mastectomy in September this year and is currently undergoing chemotherapy He is responding well to the treatment and taking the cycles timely said Dr Meenu Walia Senior Director Medical Oncology Max Super Speciality Hospital in Patparganj Male breast cancer is rare but an aggressive cancer As per the American Cancer Society a mans lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is about 1 out of 833 men The outlook for male breast cancer is excellent if diagnosis is in the early stages said Dr Walia She said that a major factor in delayed diagnosis is owing to a lack of awareness While many women know how to look out for changes that could indicate breast cancer there is less awareness among men which means they may be less likely to seek help in the early stages Male breast cancer is most common in older men though it can occur at any age she said Breast cancer can affect men differently as they have fewer breast tissues compared to women While it can make it easier to detect smaller lumps however it also means that the cancer has less room to grow within the breast As a result it may quickly spread to nearby tissuesorgans she said For these and other reasons around 40 per cent of men with breast cancer are diagnosed in stage 3 or 4 when the disease has already spread to other parts of the body As a result overall survival rates are lower for men than for women she added PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Oct 22 PTI Delhi is likely to receive light rain over the weekend according to the India Meteorological Department IMD The weatherman has forecast partly cloudy sky with the possibility of very light rain or drizzle towards Saturday night Delhiites woke up to a pleasant Friday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 177 degrees Celsius normal for this time of the year The maximum temperature was recorded at 334 degrees Celsius two notches above the seasons average Humidity levels oscillated between 85 per cent and 42 per cent The IMD has issued a green alert for Saturday and a yellow alert for Sunday The IMD uses four colour codes Green means all is well yellow indicates severely bad weather It also suggests that the weather could change for the worse causing disruption in day-to-day activities Orange alert is issued as a warning for extremely bad weather with the potential of disruption in commute with road and drain closures and interruption of power supply Red is when extremely bad weather conditions are certainly going to disrupt travel and power and have significant risk to life The air quality index AQI of the national capital remained in the moderate category on Friday It was recorded at 189 at 905 am and improved to 135 by 4 pm The AQI of Noida and Gurgaon was recorded at 211 and 182 respectively in the morning An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good 51 and 100 satisfactory 101 and 200 moderate 201 and 300 poor 301 and 400 very poor and 401 and 500 severe Delhi recorded a high of 324 degrees Celsius and a low of 16 degrees Celsius on Thursday PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Oct 22 PTI A 32-year-old woman suffering from low egg count has become a mother to a daughter through less-used ovarian rejuvenation therapy after multiple failed attempts at conceiving through assisted reproductive technologies ART according to a private facility here Low egg reserve is a common problem among young women today and every fifth woman coming to the facility has it and even women as young as 27 fail to conceive due to this condition said Dr Gauri Agarwal Director and Co-founder Seeds of Innocence The woman from Patna and her husband were trying to become parents for the past eight years and were heartbroken when all options including assisted reproductive technologies such as intrauterine insemination failed it said in a statement The woman was diagnosed with a low count of anti-Mllerian hormone AMH Against a normal count of 2-6 her AMH count was 05 In such cases donor eggs are almost inevitable as the womans body does not produce enough eggs to be extracted The woman was also diagnosed with very low antral follicle count also known as basal antral follicle count during ultrasound which further sank the hopes The doctor then adopted ovarian rejuvenation therapy -- a lesser used technology -- that helped the woman become a mother of a daughter earlier this month according to the statement The doctor said earlier low egg reserve was a problem that emerged with growing age but now it is a common problem among young women Some of the key reasons for the lower age of this condition are stress pollution pesticides and addiction to smoking and alcohol she said PTI SLB SMN SMN

New Delhi Oct 21 PTI Delhi recorded 22 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 005 per cent on Thursday while there was zero death due to the infection according to data shared by the health department here The cumulative COVID-19 cases now stand at 1439488 and the death toll remains at 25089 A total of 42563 tests were conducted a day ago PTI SLB SMN SMN