Students rush as DU announces second cut off list

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Saturday evening announced its list of candidates for the oct 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh. In Maharashtra, where the party is going to contest 119 of the 288 total seats, with ally Shiv Sena contesting the rest, it announced a first list of 66 candidates.

August 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced the list of candidates to the by elections to be held at four states of Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. Party General Secretary Ananth Kumar released the list of 11 candidates to the media in the national capital.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has appreciated the steps Australia has taken for the safety of Indian students, some of whom have faced allegedly racist attacks, even as it released a list of do's and don'ts for Indians studying in that country. "We hope that the Australian government will succeed to stop the attacks.

June 11th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Panjab University announced Wednesday it will give students who dropped out of their courses mid-way a chance to complete their studies. "We were working in this direction for a long time and now finally have decided to give a final nod to it.

June 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Punjab government has asked parents of those studying in Australia to provide details of their children's whereabouts. The state government has directed the parents to provide details of students up to June 12 with their respective patwaries and tehsildars.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The last of the nine open day sessions organised by Delhi University Wednesday to counsel students and parents about the admission procedures saw an overwhelming number of university aspirants inquiring about cutoffs, officials said. The counselling programme of the final open day was held at the Acharya Narendra Dev College in the university's south Delhi campus.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi University admission process started Monday with over 26,000 forms being sold on day one at 16 information centres spread across the capital. In total 26,052 forms were sold at the 16 centres on the first day, deputy dean of student's welfare Seema Parihar told IANS.

May 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As Delhi University Monday launches its admission process for the new academic session beginning in July, police have taken several measures to provide security to tens of thousands of students and their parents who will be thronging the north campus area. "A huge rush of students is expected during the admission process and to tackle this, along with huge traffic, nearly 300 personnel would be deployed at different locations in the north campus," said a senior police officer.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As many as 47,821 students scored 90 percent or above in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 exams, whose results were announced Friday; 4,933 scored 95 percent and above. There was a whopping increase in the number of students who have scored 90 percent or more this year.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 10,035 students, including 1,048 girls have successfully cracked the IIT Joint Entrance Examination, results of which were announced here on Monday. Nearly four lakh students had appeared in the test held across the country on 13th April, from which Nitin Jain from the Delhi zone has topped the list.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Jackie Chan has announced his 100th movie project. The 55-year-old said on his Web site that he is going to co-direct the film tentatively called 'Chinese Zodiac' with 'Rumble in the Bronx' director Stanley Tong.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM) on Saturday released its second list of 16 candidates for Kerala, Karnataka and Lakshadweep for general elections. The party will field 14 candidates in Kerala while one candidate each in Karnataka and Lakshadweep.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday released its list of candidates for seven of Assam's 14 Lok Sabha constituencies. Under its alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the BJP is contesting eight seats, including Guwahati, leaving six for its partner.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday released a list of 48 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, taking to 96 the number of contestants it has announced so far. The names were finalised at a meeting of the party's Central Election Committee held at the party headquarters with party president Rajnath Singh in chair.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday released a list of 23 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, taking the number of its contestants announced so far to 71. The names were finalised at a meeting of the party's Central Election Committee held at the party headquarters under the chairmanship of its president Rajnath Singh.