![]() The department also said students and staff must wear masks and maintain social distancing to the extent possible. ![]() ![]() The Directorate of Education (DoE) issued a fresh advisory for schools in the national capital on April 13, directing them to close the entire premises or specific wings temporarily if any student or staff tests positive for COVID-19. Schools can take a decision to close the entire premises in specific cases where an infected child or staff has been through multiple areas of the school, we have made it decentralised," Sisodia said in response to a question during a press conference. Our guidelines say that only a specific wing or classroom where someone was found COVID positive should be temporarily closed. A meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has been called on April 20 to review the situation in the national capital. The comments by Sisodia, who is also the Education Minister, came against the backdrop of rising cases of COVID-19 among school children and staff members. (PTI)ĭelhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said a specific wing in schools or classrooms where a COVID-19 case has been detected should be closed temporarily and clarified that the entire school should only be closed in specific cases. While releasing DU's admission policy earlier this month, Singh had said that for the general seats, a college should solely take the CUET scores into consideration and for the minority seats, it can hold interviews and assign a weightage of 85 per cent to CUET scores and 15 per cent to interviews. The college also said that it reserves the right to proceed with admissions as per its own admission policy guaranteed to it as a minority institution. In an admission notice posted on its website on Tuesday, St Stephen's College said it will give 85 per cent weightage to Common University Entrance Test (CUET) scores and 15 per cent to interviews it will conduct for admissions for all categories of students. With St Stephen's College announcing that it will conduct interviews carrying 15 per cent weightage for admissions across categories, Delhi University vice-chancellor Yogesh Singh on Friday said the varsity does not want any confrontation and will resolve the issue through dialogue. A case was registered under sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code in connection with the incident, he said. The injured man was taken to GTB hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, said Devesh Kumar Mahla, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast). The victim was standing near his house when three juveniles allegedly came on foot and stabbed him. The victim used to taunt and threaten the minors and a day before the murder, Tamkeen had slapped one of them which led to a scuffle between them, the police added. Police said Tamkeen used to be an ice-cream vendor in the morning and would sell vegetables in the evening. Two baton swords used in the crime were also recovered from them.Īll the juveniles who were aged between 15 to 16 years had fled to Meerut (UP) after killing Tamkeen and later returned back to their Delhi home, police said. According to police, the incident took place in Subhash Vihar area on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. Three juveniles were apprehended on Friday for allegedly stabbing a 45-year-old ice-cream vendor to death in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura, police said. In view of the uptick in Covid cases in the national capital, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) will hold a meeting on April 20 to discuss measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the city, officials said on Thursday. ![]() He said hospitalisation related to coronavirus has not increased and “there is no need to panic”. In view of the increasing cases of Covid-19 in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday said his government is keeping an eye on the Covid-19 situation in the city, and will bring in a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for schools if need arises. Three men have been apprehended by the Delhi Police, he added. In view of the recent incidents, these were promptly removed and suitable legal action is being taken, said DCP (southwest) Manoj C. “Today morning it has come to notice that few flags and banners have been put on the road and adjoining areas near JNU. This comes in the wake of a recent clash between students that took place on Ram Navami at the Kaveri hostel of JNU. Saffron flags and posters put up by the Hindu Sena outside Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) campus were removed by the Delhi police on Friday morning.
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