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A Mariyam Alavi

A Mariyam Alavi

Mariyam is a correspondent with the Hindustan Times’ Delhi team. She covers stories related to weather, pollution, and education.

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DU admissions 2018: Maximum ECA applications for NCC

DU admissions 2018: According to a university official, this year, around 900 seats will be available under the category. Over 17,000 students have applied under the ECA category.

Updated on Jun 23, 2018 10:24 IST

DU admission 2018: Apply for diploma in cyber security by June 30

DU admission 2018: Applicants apply to the course through the DU postgraduate programmes’ admission portal.

Updated on Jun 23, 2018 10:27 IST

DU aspirants with learning disabilities stranded as no authority to issue certificate

DU admission 2018: According to a Delhi government website, the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) is suppose to issue these certificates.

Updated on May 30, 2018 08:13 IST

JNU protests: FIR against student union members for ‘siege’ at V-C’s office over attendance policy

JNU students sit in around the office block in protest against a new attendance policy, on Thursday.

Updated on Feb 16, 2018 18:22 IST

JNU students ‘confine’ officials over mandatory attendance issue

New Delhi, India - February 15, 2018: Huge protest going on in JNU and students have surrounded the office block. (Photo by Raj K Raj/ Hindustan Times) (To go with Mariyam’s story)

Updated on Feb 16, 2018 02:07 IST

Nursery admissions: First list out, next list on Feb 28

The first list of selected candidates for nursery class in Delhi’s private unaided schools was announced on Thursday.

Updated on Feb 15, 2018 17:36 IST

46 years after actor Balraj Sahni’s ‘radical’ speech, JNU to host its 2nd convocation

Actor Balraj Sahni and G Parthasarathi, Vice Chancellor, JNU, head to address Jawaharlal Nehru University’s convocation in New Delhi in 1972.

Updated on Jan 29, 2018 01:44 IST

Little bravehearts who risked their lives to save others: Tales of valour from across India

National Bravery Awards 2017 winners at a press preview in New Delhi on Thursday.

Updated on Jan 19, 2018 02:23 IST

Wednesday is last day to submit nursery admission forms, first list on February 15

The application process for approximately one lakh nursery seats in private schools opened on December 27 last year for general category applicants and will close on Wednesday.

Updated on Jan 17, 2018 07:08 IST

Delhi University admission process may start in April this year

The admission process to Delhi University (DU) may begin earlier than usual for the upcoming academic session.

Updated on Jan 15, 2018 17:14 IST

Delhi’s Chhavi Gupta cracks CAT with 100 percentile, had cleared IIT-JEE in first attempt

Chhavi, 24, who completed her dual BTech and MTech degree in Biotechnology from IIT Delhi, hopes to get into IIM Ahmedabad or Calcutta.

Updated on Jan 9, 2018 06:16 IST

Trains getting delayed despite fog safe device installed by Northern Railway

The GPS-based fog safe device was introduced in 2010. It has been made available in all Northern Railway trains this winter.

Updated on Jan 5, 2018 13:58 IST

‘A room of our own, clothes for kids’: What Delhi’s homeless want in 2018

A homeless man watching Hindi film, Ek Tha Tiger, at a temporary open theatre in north Delhi on New Year’s Eve.

Updated on Jan 2, 2018 09:32 IST

Foggy, cold, severely polluted day in Delhi; 50 flights, 69 trains delayed

According to the Indira Gandhi International Airport’s app showing live updates of flights, around 30 domestic and 20 international flights, which were supposed to land in Delhi by noon or earlier, were delayed.

Updated on Jan 2, 2018 05:20 IST

Delhi school management committees to get more money, power to hire teachers

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal also suggested that school management committees should be authorised to hire teachers on a temporary basis, until the department can fill the vacant posts.

Updated on Dec 29, 2017 07:53 IST

JNU compulsory attendance move faces resistance from students, teachers

JNUSU president Geeta Kumari termed the move to make attendance compulsory at JNU “unreasonable” and “unnecessary”, especially for MPhil, PhD students when they did not have regular classes.

Updated on Dec 28, 2017 13:18 IST

JNU makes attendance mandatory from Jan, students say it’s against ‘tradition’

The university has not yet specified the exact percentage of attendance that would be required to be maintained by students.

Updated on Dec 27, 2017 18:15 IST

Delhi government to hire over 250 special educators

DoE is planning on opening 14 resource centres, one in each of the 12 districts and two at the headquarters, to provide speech therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy services for the children with special needs.

Updated on Dec 18, 2017 10:14 IST

5 years of Delhi gang rape: Conviction for rape stays poor despite special courts, new law

The conviction rate has been dropping steadily from 49.3% in 2012 to 35.7% in 2013, 34.5% in 2014 and 29.7% in 2015.

Updated on Dec 18, 2017 05:28 IST

‘I feel like we are frozen in time’: Mother of December 16 gangrape victim

Mother of December 16 gang rape victim breaks down during an interaction with Hindustan Times at her residence on Tuesday.

Updated on Dec 16, 2017 04:18 IST

Delhi government to set up panels to check fee hike in private schools

The Delhi government has received a slew of complaints from parents against fee hike in private schools.

Updated on Dec 14, 2017 05:59 IST

Delhi nursery admissions: Parents of twins confused over first child points

Last year, schools such as the DPS Mathura Road, had also assigned 15 points if the applicant was the first child of the family.

Updated on Dec 13, 2017 09:02 IST

Women alcoholics on the rise in Delhi, and across India

According to members of Shakti, the Delhi group has the highest number of women as compared to similar groups of other states.

Updated on Dec 10, 2017 05:29 IST

IIT Delhi placements: Microsoft offers highest pay package of ₹1.4 crore

Updated on Apr 11, 2019 08:45 IST

NCRB data reinforces Delhi’s rape capital tag, city tops in crimes against women

This year Delhi also bagged another notorious feather in its hat as it contributed the maximum percentage of crime to the statistics collated from the 19 metropolitan cities .

Updated on Dec 1, 2017 07:33 IST

Delhi: IITF 2017 ends with fewer visitors due to capped space

People shop at the Turkey pavilion at the International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on Monday.

Updated on Nov 27, 2017 18:33 IST

Delhi’s Trade Fair opens for public, here’s what you can explore

Delhi pavilion at the ongoing trade fair in Pragati Maidan.

Updated on Nov 18, 2017 15:37 IST

37th India International Trade Fair to be inaugurated on Tuesday

People will have to get their tickets in advance either online or at Metro stations, as the number of visitors per day has been capped at 60,000. There will be no ticket sales at the gates of Pragati Maidan.

Updated on Nov 13, 2017 17:10 IST

Delhi Walk Festival at Palla village explores the ‘cleaner’ side of Yamuna

People guided by experts ride along the banks of Yamuna during the Delhi Walk Festival near Palla Village in New Delhi.

Updated on Nov 11, 2017 19:04 IST

Access to YouTube channels of news portals blocked on varsity WiFi, say JNU students

The students alleged that they cannot access any videos relating to JNU student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Shehla Rashid and politicians Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Mamta Bannerjee. Other members of opposition parties “are showing no results”.

Updated on Nov 11, 2017 18:55 IST

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