Another fake email of MSU VC in circulation

Another fake email of MSU VC in circulation

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Vadodara:07.09.2021

‘Hello, Help Needed, email me back asap’ — a fake email with this text in the name of M S University vice-chancellor (VC) professor Parimal Vyas has been circulating in the university circles since Sunday.

Even as the university authorities have approached the cybercrime department with a request to investigate, the email has created quite a flutter as it is the second instance where specific circles are receiving fake email in Vyas’ name.

“After it came to my notice, I have already warned everybody through social media platforms that such a fake email in my name is in circulation and they should remain alert,” Vyas told TOI.

University authorities said VC’s email account has not been hacked nor is there any data breach of the official contacts.

“Some miscreant has created a new email account that seems to be that of the VC. The email that many in the university circle have received is not from the official email id of the VC. So far, it could be traced to Nigeria,” said Dr Viral Kapadia, deputy director of MSU’s computer centre.

Interestingly, the officials believe that it is the handiwork of some insider, in all probability, someone from the Faculty of Arts.

“Most of the recipients are teachers of the Faculty of Arts and even the timings of sending the emails are not uniform,” said Kapadia. adding, so, it seems this is the work of someone who is trying to gather email ids of teachers and sending the emails to whomever he or she can.

‘16 years of hearings punishment enough’

LENIENCY SHOWN

‘16 years of hearings punishment enough’

Train Ticket Black-Marketer Sentenced To One Day In Court

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Ahmedabad:07.09.2021

A local court handed down a minor punishment — sitting in the courtroom for one day — for the blackmarketing of railway tickets after observing that the accused regularly attended court hearings for 16 years and this itself was punishment enough for him.

The accused’s behaviour of religiously attending proceedings for 16 years paid him at the end of the trial. There were in all 62 hearings and adjournments during the course of the trial.

The case involved Ashok Bhumihar (39), a resident of Delhi Darwaza, who was caught buying railway tickets from the reservation counter on March 25, 2004. Railway police force lodged a complaint against him under Section 143 of the Railways Act, which provides for ‘penalty for unauthorised carrying on of business of procuring and supplying of railway tickets’. It entails punishment of up to three years and a fine of up to Rs 10,000. Bhumihar was booked because he was found in possession of tickets without a licence to sell them.

The accused denied the charges and claimed that he had bought the tickets for relatives. However, the court did not believe him and held him guilty of black-marketing. The court awarded him punishment on September 3 but rejected the prosecution’s demand for harsh punishment.

While holding him guilty, additional chief metropolitan magistrate B R Rajput said, “Because of such persons, railway tickets are black-marketed and poor and needy passengers do not get reservations on trains and cannot travel in proper conditions. If this black-marketing is not stopped, many passengers will have to continue to face hardships on daily basis.” However, the court was lenient on Bhumihar. It ordered him only to sit till the rising or the court (TRC) and pay a Rs 5,000 fine. The court said, “This is a 2004 case and the accused remained present for the hearings on a regular basis. His presence in court for 16 years is punishment enough.”

State govt hikes DA from 17% to 28%

State govt hikes DA from 17% to 28%

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Gandhinagar:

Here’s some good news for government employees.

The state government has accepted the long-pending demand of employee associations to raise the dearness allowance of government employees and pensioners. Nitin Patel, who is deputy chief minister, finance minister and spokesperson of the state government, said that the state government has decided to raise the DA from present 17% to 28%. The increased benefit will be applicable from September salary.

“The Centre raised the DA by 11% from July so we have decided to raise the DA of state government employees in the same way. Arrears of July will be paid in October before the Diwali while the August arrears will be paid in January 2022. The additional monthly burden on the exchequer will be Rs 378 crore. The state government has 9.6 lakh employees and pensioners. Panchayat and other government category employees will get similar benefits,” Patel said.

Make law panel suggestions binding, says HC

Make law panel suggestions binding, says HC

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Chennai:07.09.2021

Consider making the Law Commission of India a statutory body or give it a constitutional status so that its recommendations would be binding on the government, the Madras high court has told the Centre.

Suggesting a suitable constitutional amendment in this regard, a division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice B Pugalendhi also directed the Centre to appoint chairman and members to the law commission within three months.

The court passed the order on a plea moved by K Pushpavanam of Madurai seeking a direction to the Centre to propose a comprehensive legislation in the field of ‘Torts and State Liability’ as per the directions of the Supreme Court in MCD V Uphaar Tragedy Victims Assn case and Vadodara Municipal Corporation case.

Allowing the plea, the bench said: “What is the use of constitutional courts in passing judgments, giving recommendations for enacting laws, when they are not actually acted upon by the legislature? What is the use of having a law commission without its recommendation being acted upon?”

Though the separation of powers between Judiciary, Executive and Legislature has not been specifically spelled out in the Constitution, it is maintained without crossing their respective boundaries. However, the way in which things are moving, it is very difficult to maintain the limits or the boundaries as the legislature fails consistently to take notice of many of the court’s suggestions, which have been in the interest of the society to enact laws, the judges said.

“It is still worse with regard to acceptance of recommendations of the law commission, which after getting inputs from various stakeholders and discussions on various issues, were made to the government to enact law. They are neither accepted nor acted upon and are kept in cold storage for decades together,” the court added.

One such recommendation was made by the first law commission as early as in 1956 recommending to the Centre to enact a law covering the field of liability of state in tort. Pointing out several such instances, the court said: “If that is the position, this court is of the opinion that restraint shown by courts in exceeding its jurisdiction to encroach upon the field of legislature should be given up.”

PM urges healthcare workers to minimize vaccine wastage

PM urges healthcare workers to minimize vaccine wastage

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New Delhi/Shimla:07.09.2021

Stressing that the government is focusing on swiftly ramping up Covid vaccination coverage across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged healthcare workers to reduce wastage of jabs as it can help save 10% of expenditure on inoculation.

The PM was interacting with healthcare workers and beneficiaries of Covid vaccination programme of Himachal Pradesh, which has inoculated 100% of its adult population with at least the first dose. He also emphasized the need to achieve similar coverage of the second dose. “Using the Covid vaccine carefully can reduce the expenses of vaccination by 10%,” Modi said. Himachal chief minister Jai Ram Thakur and BJP president J P Nadda were also present at the event.

Referring to the landmark achievement of administering of more than one crore vaccines in a single day, twice in the last week of August, the PM lauded the efforts of health workers, doctors, medical professionals and teachers. “India is creating a record by administering1.25 crore vaccines every day. The number of vaccines administered in a single day by India is more than the entire population of several countries,” he said.

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Covid-19 drug Tocilizumab’s biosimilar version gets emergency use authorisation

New Delhi:

In a move that is expected to boost India’s battle against Covid-19, the drug regulator has granted emergency use authorisation to Hetero’s biosimilar version of Tocilizumab for treatment of critically ill Covid-19 patients in India.

Hetero announced that the drug would be available from September-end under brand name Tocira. Hetero’s Tocira 400mg/20ml is the biosimilar version of Roche’s Actemra/ RoActemra. The drug is currently distributed by Cipla in India under license from Roche. TNN

Online nuptials can be registered under Special Marriage Act: HC

Online nuptials can be registered under Special Marriage Act: HC

Kochi:07.09.2021

Weddings under the Special Marriage Act can be registered without insisting on physical presence of the parties, the Kerala high court said on Monday.

However, the challenge was identification of both the parties by the marriage officer and one of the options for that was the use of technology like facial recognition or biometrics, the court said. Noting that the court does not have the expertise to work out modalities for use of technology for such matters, a bench of Justices A Muhamed Mustaque and Kauser Edappagath impleaded the department of information technology and the ministry of external affairs as parties in the matter.

The bench directed the central government’s lawyer to seek instructions on policies on facial recognition and other data tools for identification of the parties.

The court was hearing a batch of pleas referred to it by a single judge on whether a wedding under the said Act could be solemnised/registered online via video conference without insisting on the physical presence of the bride and the groom.

The single judge, Justice P B Suresh Kumar, was of the view that parties to an intended marriage can certainly be permitted to solemnise it through exchange of words through video conference.

However, he referred the matter to a larger bench as two other judges of the court had ruled that solemnisation of marriages under the said Act via videoconference would dilute the provisions of the Act and that physical presence of both parties was mandatory. Appearing to agree with the view of Justice Kumar and the contentions of the petitioners, the bench on Monday said, “We have no hesitation to hold that a marriage under SMA can be registered without insisting on physical presence of the parties before the marriage officer. However, the marriage officer must be in a position to identify the parties. But the manner in which such identification can be made online is a concern for us.” PTI

‘PHYSICAL PRESENCE NOT MANDATORY’

CBI arrests 4 more in JEE (Mains) exam manipulation racket

CBI arrests 4 more in JEE (Mains) exam manipulation racket

New Delhi:07.09.2021

The CBI has arrested four more people in connection with their investigation into the case of alleged manipulation of JEE (Mains) 2021 examination. Earlier, the agency had arrested seven suspects in the case.

The arrests include an assistant professor, Sandeep Gupta, of a private engineering college in Sonipat and three other staffers posted there. The other suspects have neen identified as Arvind Saini and Kuldeep Garg who work as lab technicians and Tulsi Ram, a peon at the same college.

As per the initial probe, at least thirty candidates are believed to have availed the services of the gang till now. Cops are now looking for a Bangalore-based suspect who used to arrange for “expert solvers” in the scam. These solvers took remote access of the computer which was assigned to their students at different colleges and then solved the paper for them in order to get them a higher rank. TNN