Bengal varsity punishes 18 for clash with cops, locals
The authorities of the Bengal Engineering and Science University (Besu) took stern action against 18 students who were involved in a brawl with the police and local residents on April 12.
For the first time in the history of the varsity, the authorities rusticated a fourth year student for life for his misconduct and breaking the varsity decorum. While two students have been expelled from the university for two years, six have been banished from the hostel and nine have been slapped with guardians’ call.
Fourth year student Mantu Prasad was found guilty for beating up three policemen of the Launch Ghat police station and passing lewd comments at women. Two more fourth year students — Dipak Kumar and Rahul Tiwari — were suspended from the varsity for two years and also banished from the hostel for the rest of their tenure in the varsity.
The varsity authorities further added that six more fourth year students will not be able to clear their remaining three papers, cannot reside in the hostel and their guardians have to meet the varsity authorities.
Guardians’ call has been slapped on the remaining nine students who will have to give a written undertaking that such incidents will not take place.
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‘Presumptuous to say nato forces failed’
Age Correspondent
NEW DELHI, APRIL 17
As New Delhi maintains an even closer watch on the situation in Afghanistan post the Kabul attacks on Sunday while maintaining that India was not a target, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that it will be “much too presumptuous” to say that the US-led Nato forces have failed in Afghanistan.
The Prime Minister, who was responding to reporters’ questions on the sidelines of the defence investiture function here on Tuesday, at the same time added, “I don’t know the situation on the ground. Nato is claiming that their strategy is working.”
Apart from the nearly 3,000 Indians currently living in Afghanistan, India also has substantial interest in Afghanistan, said official sources on Tuesday.
They further said that there was no threat to any Indian interest during Sunday’s attacks.
The importance of Afghanistan and the Af-Pak region was also evident in a lecture that foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai delivered on Tuesday in the capital. Devoting no less than three paragraphs on the topic, Mr Mathai said, “Afghanistan is currently in the process of transition and transformation in a region which is the epicentre of world terrorism.”
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