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NIT Srinagar Student To Donate Rs 1.23 Lakh Profit Earned From Share Market

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SRINAGAR: A student from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar has earned 1.23 lakh profit from his investment in the share market during the past one week and has decided to donate the entire amount among marginalized sections of society.
Tabrez Alam, 8th-semester student from the Department of Information Technology is all set to donate his profit of investments among marginalized sections of society including students.
In his message, Director NIT Srinagar Prof Rakesh Sehgal appreciated Tabrez Alam for the noble initiative. Donations can provide essential support to individuals and communities who are struggling with poverty, illness, or other challenges, he said.
“By donating, individuals can inspire others to give and contribute to creating a culture of generosity and compassion,” Prof. Sehgal said, adding that NIT Srinagar students should become a ray of hope for the society.
Institute’s Registrar, Prof. Syed Kaiser Bukhari said donation is a powerful tool for creating positive change in the world and helping those in need. By giving to others, we can make a difference in their lives and contribute to building a better future for all, he said.
Prof. Bukhari said helping society at the time of need is essential for building a strong and resilient community. Addressing systemic issues that contribute to social and economic inequality requires sustained limitless efforts. Such things are the need of the hour, he said.
Hailing from Dhaka Champaran district of Bihar, Tabrez stated that he had invested around 5 lakh in the share market. Now has decided to share his entire profit among the marginalized sections of society including poor students, he said.
“I want to help people who are suffering in our society. Although it is a small contribution, I am trying my best to do my part,” he said.

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April 19, 2023
Biden DOJ wins transfer of lawsuit challenging student loan rule away from conservative Texas court

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Critics have accused conservative opponents of Biden policies of filing their lawsuits in particular divisions in the district, seeking to guarantee they’re heard by a sympathetic judge. The Biden administration, for example, has accused Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of “judge shopping” in recent cases he’s filed in the district challenging various administration policies.
The lawsuit that Pittman agreed to transfer on Monday was brought by a for-profit college trade association that wants to block a new Biden administration policy that makes it easier for student loan borrowers to have their debts forgiven when they are misled or defrauded by their college.
Career Colleges & Schools of Texas, which filed the case in February, is trying to block the Education Department’s rewrite of federal standards — known as “borrower defense to repayment” — that govern when the agency discharges a student loan based on a college’s misconduct. The group argues that the policy, which is set to take effect July 1, is an illegal and unfair effort by the Biden administration to provide more loan forgiveness to borrowers while sticking colleges with the bill.
In a six-page decision, Pittman rejected arguments by the Austin-based association that it should be able to pursue the case in the Fort Worth division of the Northern District of Texas on behalf of member schools in that area that would be affected by the new policy even though the group itself doesn’t have any office or employees there.
Pittman ruled that connection to the district was too far removed. Career Colleges & Schools of Texas “may have an interest in assisting various burdened parties in the division, but it does not have any presence,” Pittman wrote, concluding that “venue is improper” in his district.
The Biden administration had asked that the case be moved either to Austin where the college group is based or federal district court in Washington, D.C. Pittman ruled that Austin would be the “more appropriate” venue because it still “affords some ‘respect’ to Plaintiff’s original choice of forum — even though it was an incorrect one.”
The Justice Department declined to comment. An attorney representing Career Colleges & Schools of Texas said that the organization would not comment on pending litigation.
The Northern District of Texas is widely seen a one of the nation’s most conservative with GOP appointed judges who have demonstrated a willingness to strike down major Democratic policies.

Pittman, for example, was the judge who first blocked Biden’s sweeping student debt relief program last fall. His colleague Judge Reed O’Connor is a George W. Bush appointee who notably struck down the Affordable Care Act in 2018.
More recently, another judge in the district, Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, authored the controversial ruling earlier this month that overturned the Food and Drug Administration’s decades-old approval of a common abortion pill. That decision is on pause while the Supreme Court hears an emergency appeal.
Josh Gerstein contributed to this report.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 18, 2023
Supreme Court rejects bid to block major class-action settlement on student debt relief

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Conservatives had seized on the case as a way to rein in Joe Biden’s efforts to cancel student debt and attack a potential backup plan to enact mass loan forgiveness if the Supreme Court strikes down his debt relief program in two other pending cases.
The three college operators were challenging the same law — the Higher Education Act’s “compromise” authority — that is widely seen as a fallback option for Biden. The administration’s existing student debt relief program is tied to the Covid-19 national emergency under a 2003 law known as the HEROES Act.
Everglades College Inc., Lincoln Educational Services Corporation and American National University argued that the settlement unfairly maligns them. About 3,800 of the colleges’ former students who said they were defrauded are set to receive relief under the settlement, but the schools note that those allegations were never proven.
The settlement, which the Education Department agreed to last year, came after years of litigation that accused the agency of mishandling and delaying applications by borrowers seeking loan forgiveness based on the misconduct of their college.
The deal is aimed at wiping out a backlog of hundreds of thousands of those applications, which are known as “borrower defense” claims. Some have languished at the department for years.
The Biden administration and attorneys who represent the student loan borrowers had argued that the three colleges lacked standing to challenge the settlement in the first place, dismissing the schools’ claims of reputational harm as too speculative.
In its brief earlier this week, the Justice Department pushed back on the idea that the class-action settlement is related to Biden’s broader debt cancellation program, calling them “entirely distinct.” The settlement “does not reflect any ‘en masse’ cancellation of outstanding debt, nor an assertion by the Secretary of the power to discharge the Department’s entire $1.6 trillion loan portfolio,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote.
The decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday sends the case back to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has already set a briefing schedule to hear the colleges’ appeal of the settlement.

It’s possible the case could return to the high court after that. The justices’ ruling on Thursday addressed only emergency relief.
But in the meantime it clears the Education Department to continue processing loan discharges for tens of thousands of borrowers.
The Biden administration reported on Wednesday that it had already wiped out the debts of about 78,000 borrowers out of the roughly 200,000 borrowers who qualify for immediate relief under the settlement.
Beyond the immediate loan forgiveness, the settlement also requires the Education Department to set up a streamlined process for tens of thousands of additional borrowers to obtain loan forgiveness.
Eileen Connor, president and director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending, which represents the class of student loan borrowers in the case welcomed the court’s decision on Thursday.
“Today’s swift and decisive action from the highest court should end, once and for all, any ongoing debate about the legitimacy of this settlement,” she said in a statement. “The message is clear: the rights of student borrowers will not falter, even in the face of well-funded, politically-motivated attacks masquerading as legal argument.”
Josh Gerstein contributed to this report.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 14, 2023
LU student calls police after being denied entry in class for coming late

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Lucknow: A woman student of MA (Arabic) first year created a furore in Lucknow University (LU) when she called the police after a teacher denied her entry into the classroom for coming late.
According to reports, Prof Aslam Islahi was taking his class when the student turned up and entered the classroom in the middle of the lecture. The professor asked her to leave as he does with other students who come late to class or resort to indiscipline.
However, the woman started arguing with the teacher and later called police dialling 112, alleging that she was being harassed.

She told police that the teacher has always been biased towards her as she belongs to a “different sect”.
This led to a heated conversation between the student and the teacher.
Hearing the commotion, students and teachers of other departments also gathered at the spot.
The police did not intervene in the matter because the student refused to give any written complaint against the teacher.
Later, the woman also left the place and refused to speak to the media persons present on the spot.

However, teachers of the Arabic department have collectively lodged a complaint at the proctor office against the student claiming that she had been giving a tough time to the faculty members with her attitude.
“We expect that the university administration will take some action against her for indiscipline,” said Islahi.
Another teacher said the student addresses teachers and officials disrespectfully and keeps pointing out flaws in everything in the department, including washrooms, syllabus and lectures.
“She even takes teachers to task if they are late for a class by a few minutes,” he added.
Proctor Rakesh Dwivedi said. “It is a sensitive matter and the said student seems to need counselling. Hence, we have requested the psychology department to extend help to her.”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 13, 2023
SC junks PFI student wing leader’s plea for PMLA case transfer to Ernakulam

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday junked a plea moved by the Popular Front of India’s (PFI) student wing leader, K.A. Rauf Sherif, seeking a transfer of a money-laundering case lodged against him from Lucknow to Kerala’s Ernakulam.
A bench of Justices V. Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal said: “We find no legally valid and justifiable grounds to order this transfer. Therefore, this transfer petition is dismissed. Pending application(s), if any, stands disposed of accordingly.”
The bench noted that the fact that the petitioner was sent to custody by the special judge at Ernakulam under Section 167(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure and that, therefore, the filing of the complaint at Lucknow is impermissible, is not legally well-founded.

The petitioner was arrested on December 12, 2020, in Kerala and he was produced before the magistrate on December 13, 2020, who sent him to judicial custody till December 24, 2020. “Therefore, the NIA moved an application under Section 167 of the Code before the Principal Sessions Judge, Ernakulam for the grant of Enforcement Directorate custody for a period of 14 days. An order under Section 167(2) of the Code had to be passed necessarily by the magistrate to whom an accused person is forwarded. In fact, Section 167(2) contains the words whether he has or has not jurisdiction to try the case. Therefore, the argument revolving around Section 167(2) of the Code also fails,” said the bench.
It stressed that a special court in Lucknow dealing with cases lodged under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cannot be said to be lacking in territorial jurisdiction to entertain the complaint. “In any case, the lack of jurisdiction of a court to entertain a complaint can be no ground to order its transfer. A congenital defect of lack of jurisdiction, assuming that it exists, inures to the benefit of the accused and hence it need not be cured at the instance of the accused to his detriment. Therefore, the first ground on which transfer is sought, is liable to be rejected,” it said.
The bench noted that the second ground on which transfer is sought is that 7 out of 10 accused persons are residents of Kerala. “But this can hardly be a ground for ordering the transfer of investigation. Similarly, the third ground that a majority of witnesses are also from Kerala/south India is also no ground to order the transfer of the complaint,” it held.
The ED had contended that Sherif had received huge amounts of money in his bank accounts through suspicious transactions.
The Lucknow court had framed charges against Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan and six others in the PMLA case in December 2022. In October 2020, Kappan was arrested with three others on their way to Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras to report on the alleged gang rape and killing of a 19-year-old woman.

Besides Kappan, the other accused in the case is Sherif and others. Sherif claimed that he was the General Secretary of Campus Front of India, which is now banned as an unlawful association, vide notification issued by the Union of India, Ministry of Home Affairs dated September 27, 2021 under Section 3 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 10, 2023
IIT-Madras Ph.D. student dies by suicide, third case this year

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A 32-year-old Ph.D. student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, was found dead in his room in Velachery area, Chennai, police said on Sunday.
The deceased student identified as Sachin was a resident of West Bengal who allegedly died by suicide.
On March 31, Sachin posted a cryptic WhatsApp status that read: “I am sorry, not good enough”. Seeing the status, his friends rushed to his home where Sachin’s body was found hanging in his room.

Following this, the deceased was rushed to the hospital but declared dead by doctors. “The dead body was taken into custody and sent to Royapet Government Hospital for autopsy. Further investigation is underway,” police said.
This is the third incident of suicide reported from IIT Madras this year while 11th case since 2018.
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April 3, 2023
Andhra teacher arrested for marrying minor student

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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a teacher for allegedly tricking a minor girl student to marry her.
Chalapathy (33), teacher at a private junior college at Gangaravaram in Chittoor district, married the 17-year-old student. The girl is a student of intermediate second year (12th standard) and the teacher, who was already married, took her to Bengaluru immediately after the completion of her examinations on March 29 and married her there.
On a complaint by the girl’s family, police booked Chalapathy under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and arrested him on March 31.

Hailing from Bommanapalle village, Chalapathy had a love marriage with a girl from the same village three years ago. They have a son. His wife is expecting their second child.
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April 2, 2023
Student enrolment in Govt Schools hikes by over seven percent this academic year

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More than 50 percent Dip in new enrolments in 2023 in comparison to previous academic year
Srinagar, Mar 31: In the ongoing academic year, the government-run-schools of all districts in Kashmir valley have recorded an increase in student enrolment by more than 19 percent.
The official figures accessed by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) states that the department has said that there was an increase of student enrolment by more than seven percent in 2023.
According to the figures maintained by the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), more than 49,900 new admissions were recorded by the department in the recently concluded mass enrollment drive.
The figures reveal that the highest percentage of new admissions was recorded in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district wherein the student enrolment has increased by 11.55 percent.
It states that before the enrollment drive, there were a total of 35,773 students enrolled in government-run-schools of the district. However, after the drive, the district has recorded over 4100 new admissions.
Similarly, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, the department has said that there was a hike in student enrolment by 10.72 percent. The district has also witnessed 13,066 new admissions in this academic session.
Likewise, the north Kashmir’s Bandipora district has recorded increase of student enrolment by 5.89 percent percent followed by frontier district Kupwara with 5.64 percent, central Kashmir’s Budgam district with 6.77 percent, Shopian with 6.48 percent, Pulwama with 7.04 percent and Srinagar with only 3.55 percent.

Earlier, this month, KNO reported about the migration of nearly 8,000 school students in Kashmir division from private to government schools.
However, as of now, the number has hiked to more than 11,283 such admissions.
Pertinent to mention that in the previous academic year, the government-run-schools of all districts of Kashmir valley had recorded an increase in student enrolment by more than 19 percent.
According to the official figures, the department in the previous academic session had said that there was an increase of student enrolment by 19.02 percent in 2022 with a total of 11,817,6 new admissions—(KNO)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

March 31, 2023
Mumbai: Queer student claims not allowed at event over ‘inappropriate’ dress in TISS

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Mumbai: The students’ union president of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) who has chosen to be identified as queer has claimed discrimination at an event on the campus over “inappropriate” dress.
A TISS professor here said the institute is known for its inclusive nature and they will look into the matter if there has been any incidence where any student was made to feel discriminated against.
The alleged incident took place on March 25, when a speech was organised on “Ambedkar Nationalism, And the Need for Contemporary Collaborative Activitism”.
In a social media post, TISS students’ union president Pratik Permey said, “I was invited to the Ambedkar Memorial Lecture as a representative of the students’ union, to welcome the guests and do some formalities. When I reached the venue, around 6 pm I showed up in the usual dress. It was a blouse and a skirt.”
Around 7, Permey claimed, a professor and a few members of the organising committee said “for an event like this, you cannot wear something like that”.
Even if the institute wants to curb what students wear, it is not fine, said Permey. “Apart from being an indigenous and tribal person, I am also a queer. I also felt that my queerness was not allowed to represent or rather I was not allowed to because of my queerness,” Permey said.
The student union leader added, “I really felt violated and humiliated. My right and my freedom were curbed. I was not allowed to represent.”
Many professors have stood in solidarity and expressed their concerns and support for me. And from the recent conversations and revelations, apparently a group of PhD students were involved in the discussion of my clothes and expression.
— Pratik Permey (@pratikpermey) March 28, 2023
A TISS professor said theirs is perhaps the only institution in the country with a gender-neutral hostel. TISS is known for its inclusive nature with all supportive mechanisms in place for students of all genders and identities to co-exist, said the professor.

“If there has been any incidence where any student feels discriminated, we will look into the matter. All students are assured of an inclusive atmosphere on the campus,” said the professor.

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March 29, 2023
License check: Bihar cop shoots student after chasing him

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A 20-year-old college student who failed to halt at a police checkpoint in Bihar’s Jehanabad district was shot at by a police officer late Tuesday evening.
Sudhir Kumar Yadav, the first-year college student who was shot, later admitted to eluding the crew at the checkpoint since he didn’t have a driver’s licence.
Assistant sub-inspector Mohammad Mumtaz Khan has been arrested, Jehanabad Superintendent of Police (SP) P Deepak Ranjan said and his service weapon has been transferred to the forensic laboratory for ballistic testing, the report stated.
Chandrahas Kumar, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Okri police station, and five police constables who were part of the police squad conducting vehicle checks have been suspended.
According to a report by the Hindustan Times, the event occurred at Ananthpur village, in the bordering Jehanabad district, a few kilometres from Sudhir’s residence. SHO Chandrahas Kumar and the ASI were stationed at a police checkpoint to inspect passing automobiles. The checkpoint was part of a district-wide operation to check vehicles.
Sudhir Yadav stated that he was riding his motorbike to the market when he noticed the police squad. He lacked both a driver’s licence and a helmet.
“I sped away when the SHO at the check post tried to stop me. A police officer chased me for about 4 kilometres and then fired at me,” the report quoted the victim. The bullet hit him on his back, and he fell down.
“My son got scared that cops will implicate him in a false case,” Sudhir Yadav’s father said, to explain why the victim didn’t stop at the check post.

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March 29, 2023