Prez to embark today on 3-day visit to Bengal
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee will leave on Sunday for a three-day visit of West Bengal where he will attend the valedictory function of 150th anniversary celebrations of the Calcutta High Court. Mukherjee will launch the ‘Bichitra’ (Tagore Online Variorum) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. “On the same day, he will attend the valedictory function of the sesquicentennial (150th) celebrations of the Calcutta High Court,” a Press release issued on Saturday by Rashtrapati Bhavan said. The President will visit Medinipur Collegiate School on the occasion of its 175th anniversary on May 6 and attend the presentation ceremony of a book of Bengali short stories at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata.
Forgery: 22 MBAs from NMIMS may lose jobs
Mumbai: Twenty-two management graduates of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), working in various companies, will lose their jobs and possibly face arrest in a forgery case. According to the Crime Branch, these graduates had cleared their management entrance exam with the help of imposters. Police has arrested six people in connection with the case. The prime accused has been identified as Alok Kumar, a B Tech graduate who cleared the NMIMS entrance test several times by impersonating real applicants.
Five other accused, who acted as mediators, have been identified as Hanumant Singh Gujar, Sugriv Gujar who are both BTech graduates and brothers, besides Brajendra Pratap Singh, MBA graduate Pavan Kumar and Himanshu Shekhar.
‘Be clear on water-sharing with China’
Guwahati: An Assam-based NGO on Saturday appealed to the State and Central Government to take the people of Assam into consideration while signing any bilateral water sharing policy with the China. Claiming that the Indian Government has been contemplating to sign a water sharing treaty with China, the NGO - Jana Jagriti on Saturday said that according to the draft water sharing treaty, China has offered only 40 per cent of the waters of the mighty river to flow to India.
“This will spell doom for northeaster States mainly Assam and Bangladesh. India and Bangladesh will be at the mercy of China for release of waters during the dry season and also for protection from floods during rainy season. The Chinese would have the means to control water flow as per their requirements,” said Ashok Singhal, president of Jana Jagriti.