Stephen’s principal

New Delhi, July 29 (PTI): Delhi High Court today said the University of Delhi should not interfere in the appointment of a principal at St. Stephen’s College.

A bench of Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar said the Indian Constitution had given autonomous power to the management of minority institutions like St. Stephen’s to take decisions regarding the appointment of their heads and other authorities should not interfere in it.

Shy NCERT

New Delhi (PTI): The NCERT is set to roll out a watered-down syllabus on sex education, shifting the focus from use of condoms to abstinence while informing children about AIDS and other sexually trans- mitted diseases. The revised module was arrived at during a meeting of education officials from 20 states and AIDS control societies. They proposed to remove “objectionable” portions from the syllabus.

Flying club

Nagpur (PTI): The Nagpur flying club has reopened after a former student filed a public interest litigation. The club, set up by a few flying enthusiasts in 1947, had stopped functioning in 1996 after being sucked into a legal battle on mismanagement charges.

Power protest

Sonepat (PTI): A group of men and women locked the subdivisional engineer’s office in protest against the delay in replacing an electricity transformer that had burnt down three weeks back. The angry mob also blocked the Gohana-Baroda road for about an hour on Monday.

Two eclipses

Chennai (PTI): A total solar eclipse will occur on August 1 but will only be partially visible in the country and most of Asia, Greenland and Europe, Tamil Nadu Science And Technology Centre executive director P. Iyamperumal said on Tuesday. The eclipse will begin at 1.34pm and end at 6.08pm. A partial lunar eclipse could be seen on August 17.