Accommodating the CWG: Displacement of hostel students
Delhi University is accommodating a lot of changes in its campus for the Commonwealth Games at the cost of not being able to accommodate its students in the hostels of various colleges. The hostels of almost all north campus colleges have been or will be vacated for the Commonwealth Games delegates. However, some north campus...
HRC: Ceiling Comes Apart
Third Year students of Hansraj College faced quite a shock when the chunks of ceiling of their classroom started falling during the course of a class on Wednesday, the 28th of July. Fortunately, everyone escaped unhurt. The classroom in question, Room 5, of Hansraj College is located on the first floor, above which a whole...
Chariots of North Campus
In collaboration with Delhi Transport Corporation, Delhi University has launched a low floor bus service to and from the Vishwavidyalaya metro station in North Campus. The bus service began with the new session on 21st July. It charges a flat rate of Rs 5 and plies from Monday to Saturday on three routes. These three...
CWG2010- Progress Review
For 12 days, Delhi will be the venue for one of the biggest sporting events India has ever hosted. After 66 days, Delhi’s makeover will, hopefully, be completed. Delhi is slated to emerge from its cocoon of blue Delhi metro barricades and grey cement and sand at under-construction sites, into what we hope will be...
FTD DEBATE
As part of their much awaited annual debating festival Gift of the Gab, Kirorimal College held the Frank Thakur Das (FTD) parliamentary debate from the 10th to the 13th of February 2010. Siddharth Thyagarajan and Aachal Kappoor from Ramjas College bagged the award for the best team. The award for the best adjudicator went to...
Too Little, too Late
Isaac Newton found enlightenment when an apple conked him on the head into action and he discovered gravity and formulated the laws of motion which literally form the building blocks of physics. However, Newton’s laws are applicable in almost every field, even beyond physics. His first law talks about how a body continues it its...
POR QUE
The Quizzing Society of Hindu College, Manthan organized its annual Quizzing Fest, Por Que 2010 from the 1st to the 4th of February. The fest had eight quizzes in total including a General Quiz, a Sports quiz, a Trivia Quiz and an Open Quiz which was conducted by quizmaster Mit Chaudhary. The fest also played...
MANZAR 2010
The Debating Society of Miranda House organized a parliamentary debate, “Manzar- 2010” from 30th January to 2nd February. The theme for the debate was ‘Deconstructing the Millennium Goals- Envisioning beyond 2015’. The format of the debate was a 3 member parliamentary with five preliminary rounds followed by the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the finals. The...
NSUI holds protest at Australian Embassy
The activists of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) held a protest demonstration against the Government of Australia for their failure to stop the racially motivated attacks on Indian students studying in the country. The protest demonstration was held in the afternoon of Wednesday, the 27th of January in front of the Australian Embassy....
We Will Walk Alone
Human civilization has been progressing at an astronomical rate. As human population grows, we have started conquering previously unconquered territories on earth, taming them and converting them into urban concrete jungles. However, it seemed that the eyes could get a break from the grayish hues when we saw trees within our cities, inhabited by birds,...
A Differently Abled Friendly DU
Delhi University for a good number of years now has three percent seats reserved for students with disabilities. However, a large portion of these seats are left vacant. This speaks volumes about the conditions of the facilities for these students and their accessibility to the disabled students. This apathy of the university, which is clearly...
Strike against fee and fare hike
The elected students’ body of Delhi University, the Delhi University Student’s Union (DUSU) organized a protest march on Thursday, the 12th of November and called for a University Bandh on Friday, the 13th of November to protest against the unexpected hike in the examination fee, bus fare hike, metro fare hike and shutting down of...
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