Badin: Academic activities halt due to poor management

Government schools have been turned into temporary relief camps for flood affectees which has badly affected the academic activities of the students.

On the other hand, the flood affectee residing in relief camps also have to face dearth of proper facilities of routine life.

Finding no firewood for energy, they have started burning furniture of the schools while the management in schools is silent over this critical situation.

Summer vacations have come to an end but the students could not attend their classes due to crisis of flood.

Hundreds protest HEC devolution in Lahore

LAHORE: Students and PHD scholars on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision against the government’s steps aimed at devolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC).

Hundreds of students and faculty of various institutes of Lahore held separate protests in the city, condemning the devolution of HEC and its transfer to provinces.

Participants of these demonstrations termed it as a step to promote provincialism in the country.

Earlier in the day, a three-judge Supreme Court bench directed the HEC to continue work.

The protestors strongly opposed the devolution of HEC. TrendPK

Radio-tracking devices fixed on Indian students ankles

Many Indian students have succeeded to get admission in a university of California and now have been radio-tagged with tracking devices.

As per details, authorities from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who interrogated scores of Indian students who were evidently conned by the sham Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, California, left radio-tracking devices on the ankles of several victims. The students said officials told them the devices, fitted with GPS technology, were meant to keep track of their movements while the administration examined their cases.

But New Delhi is not happy with students being treated like criminals. Expressing serious concern, a government spokesman said India has conveyed to the US authorities that the students, most of who are victims themselves, must be treated fairly and reasonably, and that the use of monitors on a group of students, who were detained and later released with monitors in accordance with US laws, is unwarranted and should be removed.

Lahore Students Protest: Case registered against 42 persons, students announce black day

In Lahore, during a protest of students, a bus was set ablaze by 42 persons and a case has now been registered against them.

According to Islampura police, bus driver Mohammad Arshads statement has helped in registering a case against Jibran Butt and former Nazim Haseeb along with 40 other persons for setting ablaze the bus. While on the other side cases against Chairman Joint Action Committee Nazim of Jamiyat Lahore Akhzar Nazeer have been registered in Qilla Gujjar Singh police station for damaging property of Punjab Assembly, blocking the traffic and damaging other government properties.
On the other side, Islami Jamiyat for Students has announced a black day today against torture on students; where as Punjab Professors Association has also announced a boycott against the educational process for an indefinite period of time. Addressing a news conference in Lahore office, acting Nazim of Islami Jamiyat for Students told that Punjab government is against educational policies and is also taking the right of education from poor children. He also said that Chief Justice must take notice of the violence done on students by the police. Acting President of Punjab Professors Association also addressed the news conference in which he announced that from today, a complete boycott will be administered against the educational process for an indefinite period of time and until a decision for creating a board of governors in the institutions is made, this movement will get more violent. He also said that police must release the arrested teachers and anti-educational policies must also be eliminated according to directions by IMF.

Lahore: IJT students protest turn nasty

A protest demonstration held by scores of Islami Jamiat Tulaba students and teachers turned nasty when some of the students barged into the Punjab Assembly premises, News Trends reported Wednesday.

The protest was staged at the Mall Road against the setting up of Board of Governors at all the institutes with the students calling upon the high-ups to save their study year.

When sensed the indifferent attitude of the officials concerned, the students marched onto the PA and damaged the walk through gate.
However, the charged students could not make into the main hall for heavy contingents of police baton-charged them and made them move to The Mall. The students then vent their ire on the vehicles parked over there and torched two of them.

London: Students clash with police, 5 arrested

Thousands of students and school pupils protested across Britain on Tuesday against planned rises in university tuition fees, bringing disruption to central London and putting strains on the coalition government.

This protest began with a short rally in Trafalgar Square but the planned march to Parliament did not take place. In fiery exchanges in parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, the leader of the coalition’s junior partner the Liberal Democrats, defended the fee hike which his party had promised to vote against during campaigning for May’s election. Outside parliament, there were bizarre scenes of cat and mouse as protesters dispersed from the route of a designated demonstration fanning out across central London with police in hot pursuit. The protesters clashed with riot police while others played out a game of cat and mouse with authorities, breaking into groups and dispersing from the designated demonstration route. The Metropolitan Police, who had prepared themselves in large numbers at Parliament Square, struggled to catch up with the students, but there did not appear to be any incidents of violence as in previous weeks; where as the police also arrested 5 students during this protest.

CJP dubbed Nawaz as corrupt, says Taseer

Once again, Governor Punjab Salman Taseer targeted PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, saying that instead of making Pakistan Asian tiger, he himself became a tiger.

Addressing the students of Fatima Jinnah University at Islamabad, Taseer said that even Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry termed Nawaz a corrupt man.

He regretted that his name has not been enlisted in the Wikileaks, however dubbed the Wiki as a baseless thing. He called upon Nawaz to tell the nation from where he got the billion of rupees with which he made his Raiwand mansion. Referring to Asia Bibis blasphemy case, the Governor said that he is accountable to Allah and not to the clerics. Later, he distributed degrees among the pass students.

Police torture journalists in Lahore

Staff Report

LAHORE: Police tortured journalists and kept them in custody for about half an hour on the issue of parking outside Punjab Chief Minister House Wednesday.

Two policemen have been apprehended after the protest of the media persons.

According to the details, journalists reached at the CM House to cover an educational event organized for the students of Balochistan studying in various educational institutions of Punjab but the tussle erupted on the issue of parking.

Several journalists including Trend Pk’s correspondent Rai Hasnain injured. Police also kept journalists in custody.

Media persons staged a protest and held sit-in outside the CM House.

Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif assured journalists that action would be taken against involved policemen. Trend Pk

Chile: environment friendly electric car on road

An environment friendly electric car manufactured by the students of the Imperial College London has reached the Chilean capital of Santiago during its journey through the South American continent. The students have expressed hopes that the state of the art technology would help aware the people by the help of which environment friendly energy resources would be introduced.
On the other hand the car moves on chargeable batteries with a maximum speed of 124 miles per hour.

Alcohol more dangerous than crack or heroin: report

Alcohol is more dangerous than such illegal drugs as crack cocaine and heroin, a British study has found.
Researchers compared several drugs — including alcohol, ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine and heroin — against each other and measured the effects on both the individual and society. In terms of the effects on the individual, the British experts analyzed how addictive each drug is, and how much damage it causes to the body.
In terms of a drug’s effect on society, the researchers analyzed such factors as how much it costs the health care and prison systems. Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug, followed by heroin and crack cocaine. Heroin, crack and methamphetamine were found to be the most harmful to the individual. Alcohol, heroin, and crack were the most harmful to others. A Canadian expert said he is not surprised by the findings, and expects the results would be similar if the study was conducted in Canada. Alcohol dwarfs those other drugs, said Dr. Marvin Krank, an addictions expert from the department of psychology at University of B.C. Krank said the accessibility of alcohol weighs largely in its ability to cause so much damage. In one of his studies, Krank and his colleagues followed 1,300 Canadian students for three years. During the most recent survey, when the students were in Grade 11, researchers found that 80 per cent of the students said they had drunk alcohol within the past year, and that 60 per cent had been drunk within the same time frame. It’s so widely available, it’s socially accepted; and in our college campuses, it’s considered a rite of passage, he said. Certainly, having drugs illegal makes them more difficult to obtain and putting a stigma on them makes them less likely to be used. The British research, published Monday in the medical journal Lancet, established a grading system in which each drug received a grade between zero and 100. When considering the overall effect of the drug — both the harm on an individual and on society as a whole — alcohol scored 72 points, while heroin and crack scored 55 and 54 respectively.

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