Pay Rs5l to PG student: SC to ludhiana college
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed prestigious Christian Medical College of ludhiana to pay Rs5 lakh compensation to its PG student who was denied admission in her desired course despite a seat remaining vacant. A bench, headed by Justice FM Ibrahim Kalifulla, slammed the college for not granting admission in PG course in General Medicine despite a vacant seat in the course under NRI quota due to which the student had to take admission in Pathology course.
IAF gifts vintage Dakota to b’desh museum
New Delhi: Seeking to revive historical ties, the Indian Air Force has gifted a vintage Dakota aircraft from its museum to the Bangladesh Air Force. “On a formal request from the Bangladesh Air Force and reviewing the historic ties, one Dakota aircraft from the IAF museum was gifted to the Bangladesh Air Force and was received by its chief Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari at Palam here,” an IAF release said.
Manipur college row: HM’s intervention sought
New Delhi: Expressing concern over the reported beating-up of non-local students, mostly from Bihar, at National Institute of Technology in Manipur, lJP leader Chirag Paswan has sought Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s intervention in the matter. Paswan has cited media reports and enclosed a letter from a NIT student hailing from Bihar in his letter to Singh, according to a statement issued by the lJP leader on Thursday.
Harsh Vardhan unveils newborn action plan
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday unveiled the India Newborn Action Plan aimed at reducing newborn deaths from the current 22 per cent thousand live births in the country. “13.3 lakh of children under the age of five years die in India and 7.56 lakh of them in their first month. We have studied in depth the reasons for these deaths and come out with comprehensive solutions,” the Minister said adding that the ministry will tie up with its development partners to execute new policies. INAP envisages to bring down neonatal and stillborn mortality rates to 24 and 19, 21 and 17 and 15 and 13 respectively by 2017, 2020, 2025 before containing these numbers to single digits by 2030.