BJP demands city kids be given priority in DU
Delhi BJP on Friday demanded that students passing from city schools be given priority in admissions to DU-affiliated colleges. “Students in Delhi should be given first priority, so that they do not have to move out of the city for higher studies,” Delhi BJP chief Vijay Goel said here while addressing a meet of private school teachers here. “Students from UP, Bihar come here because they don't have good colleges like SRCC, Ramjas, Hindus or St Stephens. If colleges of such repute are opened there, then students from those States won't flock to Delhi,” he said.
Walia worried about mosquito-borne diseases
Delhi Health Minister Dr Ashok Kumar Walia has stressed upon the need for utmost caution and high-level of preparedness with regard to outbreak of water and vector-borne diseases during the current weather conditions, which are marked by intermittent showers and fluctuation in temperature. He warned that the weather is conducive to abetment of incidence of malaria, dengue, cholera, gastroenteritis and typhoid. He advised people to take precautionary measures well in time to keep such diseases under control. He was reviewing the situation with regard to water and vector borne diseases in Delhi. Walia expressed concern that the reports of the Directorate of National Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme have shown high breeding of aedes mosquitoes during the month of June itself.