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Resistance to the convocation of British PM

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After the felicitation of Gordon Brown with an honorary degree from Delhi University, members of the Democratic Teachers’ Front (DTF) and the Left-wing Students’ Federation of India demonstrated with placards and slogans. They resented the convocation as Brown broke his promise of recalling British troops from Iraq after he became the Prime Minister.


And in other Side Stories…

· SRCC Debating Festival
(28th January to 31st January)
The festival encapsulates a parliamentary debate, a conventional debate, and the turncoat debate. The debate shall be adjudged by Shiv Khera, founder of Qualified Learning Systems, USA, an educator, Business Consultant, and a much sought-after speaker and Mr. Sanjeev Kaura, Lead India finalist.

· IP Fest ‘Shruti’
This week shall witness the annual fest of Indraprastha College for Women! For details turn to Page 2…

· Protest in Stephens
Students staged a protest on Thursday, inside St. Stephens against a petition filed by a Sanskrit professor facing inquiry for allegedly molesting an American student. The professor moved the High Court alleging that the College Complaints Committee had been biased against him.

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Australian Open

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Out of the four Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments that keep us glued to our idiot boxes every year, Australian Open kick starts the tennis mania each year in mid-January. It is played at the Melbourne Park (called Flinders Park during 1980s), a new ( Rebound Ace) Hardcourt venue next to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It’s origin can be traced to the grass courts at Kooyong in the city of Melbourne, where it was held for the first time in the year 1905 as The Australasian Championship. Top-ranked players sweat it out on the Melbourne hardcourts and compete for men’s and women’s singles competitions, men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles, and lastly, junior and master’s competitions.