July 3, 2013

DU website crashes leaving students anxious

By Pinakita Gupta July 3, 2013

Delhi University declared the results of May/June 2013 examination for several courses on 2^nd July. Twelve courses had their results announced leading to several hundred frenzied students logging on to the DU website to check them. Unable to handle the traffic, the site crashed. ‘The web page is not available’ is all that the students saw and no amount of hitting refresh helped.

“The fact is unless you check the result in the middle of the night when the traffic has thinned out, you shall be stuck up for at least forty minutes on the site.” said a disgruntled Rahul Sharma of Venkateshvara College. Since the declaration, the site has been continuously crashing and the problem still continues.

Rahul’s statement was reaffirmed when students reported on our Facebook post that after continuous trials that went in vain, few students were able to check the result at around 4 a.m. Once the normal traffic on the website came back, so did the crashing problem.

It is ludicrous that the website of one of the top universities in the country cannot even handle one fourth of the students it admits logging on to its server. The site definitely needs reform.

Update: The Delhi University result portal is now active. You can check your results here: http://duexam.du.ac.in/RSLT_MJ2013/Students/List_of_Declare_RSLT.aspx

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Delhi University Colleges: Metro routes

By DU Beat July 3, 2013

College Nearest Metro Station Metro Line Acharya Nar. Dev Govindpuri Violet Aditi Mahavidyalaya Rithala Red A.R.S.D AIIMS Yellow Bhagini Nivedita Dwarka Mor Blue Bharti College Janakpuri East Blue Bhim Rao Ambedkar Anand Vihar Blue CVS Malviya Nagar/Saket Yello Daulat Ram Vishwavidyalaya Yellow Deen Dayal Upadhayaya Moti Nagar Blue Delhi College of Arts and Commerce AIIMS/INA Yellow Deshbandhu Govind Puri Violet Ramanujan Govind Puri Violet Dyal Singh College JLN Stadium Violet Gargi Green Park Yellow Hans Raj Vishwavidyalaya Yellow Hindu Vishwavidyalaya Yellow I.P. College Civil Lines Yellow Janki Devi Memorial Karol Bagh Blue Jesus and Mary College INA Yellow Kamala Nehru Green Park Yellow Keshav Mahavidyalaya Pitampura Red Kirori Mal College Vishwavidyalaya Yellow Lady Shri Ram College for Women Moolchand/Kailash Colony Violet Laxmibai College Shastri Park Red Maharaja Agrasen College Mayur Vihar Ph 1 Blue Maitreyi College INA Yellow Mata Sundri College Rajiv Chowk Blue/Yellow Miranda House Vishwavidyalaya Yellow Motil Lal Nehru AIIMS Yellow P.G.D.A.V. Lajpat Nagar Violet Rajdhani Rajouri Garden Blue Ram Lal Anand AIIMS Yellow Ramjas Vishwavidyalaya Yellow Satyawati Co-Ed. Azadpur Yellow Shaheed Bhagat Singh College Malviya Nagar Yellow Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies Karkarduma Blue Shri Ram Coll. of Commerce. Vishwavidyalaya Yellow S.G.G.S. Coll. of Commerce. Netaji Subhash Place Red S.G.T.B. Khalsa Vishwavidyalaya Yellow S.G.N.D. Khalsa Shastri Nagar Red Shivaji College Rajouri Garden Blue Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College Punjabi Bagh (W) Green Shyam Lal College Shahdara Red Sri Aurobindo Malviya Nagar Yellow Sri Venkateswara AIIMS Yellow St. Stephens Vishwavidyalaya Yellow Zakir Husain New Delhi Yellow Image Credit: DU and DMRC official websites.]]>

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DU Beat Admission Special Issue: July 1st – 3rd, 2013

By DU Beat July 3, 2013

DU Beat presents the first issue for this academic year. Aimed at prospective Delhi University students, here is our “Admission Special”. We take a look at the FYUP and give the kids few tips that will help them settle down in the University.

While a huge number of freshers were successful in grabbing copies, here is the online version in case you missed it!

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Wimbledon 2013: Shocks and expectations

By Tanya Kak July 3, 2013

The lush green grass, the early morning look of the courts, the white dress code, world’s best players all ready to fight it out and the charm of the best Grandslam that seems to have engulfed the masses. Yes, it’s Wimbledon time of the year again. For some of us, it’s sheer joy to witness some classic tennis every year on those courts. For some others, rivalries are renewed. It’s the age old division of die heart fans into two camps- Federer v/s Nadal , yet only a few can refute the tension and the excitement that ensues a Federer-Nadal final at Wimbledon.

And this year happened to be no different. With hopes that high and enthusiasm reaching new levels, we were all set to go all out and root for our tennis champions. But soon enough, those hopes were to be shattered. The string of improbable exits began with Rafael Nadal who had to exit the first round as world number 135 Steve Darcis pulled off one of the biggest successes of his career. This gave a sense of jubilation to the Federer camp which now seemed to have an upper hand. But no sooner, they too were slumped to a shock with the Seven-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer being stunned by the 116^th ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round of Wimbledon.

Well, just when we thought things couldn’t get worse and probably there’s still hope the tournament lost six former No. 1 players on Wednesday: Sharapova, Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki, and Ana Ivanovic among the women and Lleyton Hewitt amongst the men.

What was to come more recently was yet another Wimbledon shocker and tragedy with Serena Williams joining the growing list of marquee names eliminated early at this wild and unpredictable championship.

While some of us have called this one of the worst Wimbledon Championships the world has witnessed, there is always a brighter side. With Djokovic and Andy Murray being the last hope for a lot of us, we should perhaps not underplay the immense potential this tournament brings out every year in terms of discovering new talent and for all you know there might be a lot of new Nadals in the making. So for that and the love of tennis which is just unmatched when it is played at this Grand Slam which has its own charm, let’s keep our fingers crossed and still be glued to our television sets.

Image Credit: Wimbledon 2013 official website

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