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DU’s certificate courses in foreign languages have many takers

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DU’s certificate courses in foreign languages have many takers

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]These are over and above the programmes offered by the university’s language departments

By Mrinal Verma

Living in the global village of today, it is hard to ignore other cultures and countries if one wants to succeed in not just their professional field, but life in general. Thanks to the internet, immigration and everything that brings us closer to each other, the world has become seamless. We can access all current events, and talk to people from other continents at a touch of our mobiles. Business, too, is becoming more and more global and multilinguality is an asset.

Fortunately, Delhi University is offering short-term courses which are intended to help students get certificates, diplomas and advanced diplomas in foreign languages, alongside their bachelor degrees. Any undergrad can enrol.

What’s available

The University of Delhi provides part-time courses in highly popular and well-loved languages like French, German, Italian and Spanish. The eligibility for such courses requires at least 45 percent in 10+2 degree from CBSE or any other equivalent. Only students enrolled in Delhi University UG courses are eligible for applying for these courses. Due to the popular demand of such courses, there are many colleges that offer these courses. DU also offers courses in Portuguese and Romanian that are taught in Department of Germanic and Romance Studies at Faculty of Arts in North Campus. They can be approached directly for information and enrollment purposes.

North Campus Colleges

There are various colleges in North Campus that offer these courses, such as:

  • Daulat Ram College for French, German, Spanish, and Italian
  • Hans Raj College for French and German
  • Keshav Mahavidalaya for French and German
  • Mata Sundari College for French, German, and Spanish.
  • Miranda House for French, German, and Spanish.
  • Ramjas College for French, German, Spanish, and Italian
  • Satyawati College for French and German
  • SGTB Khalsa College for German and Spanish
  • Sri Guru Gobind Singh College for French and German
  • Stephen’s College for French and German

South Campus Colleges

The colleges that can be approached for these courses are:

  • Acharya Narendra Dev College for French, German, and Spanish
  • Bharti College for French and German
  • College of Vocational Studies for French and German
  • Delhi College of Arts and College for French, German, and Spanish
  • Gargi College for German
  • Jesus and Mary College for French
  • Kamla Nehru College for French
  • Sri Venkateswara College for German

The course is made up of 206 hours, with 116 hours devoted to teaching theoretical concepts and the rest of the 90 hours kept especially for practical training. The classes are for four hours once a week, with a total of 23 weeks and two workshops of 12 hours each every semester. The fees for certificate language courses can range from INR 15,000 to 20,000. The registration process for such courses start after the normal admission process is done with, but a tab on the college’s websites and admission block should be kept to gather more information. The university also provides BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD courses in various foreign and Indian languages.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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On Camera: Delhi man stabs girl multiple times in Mukherjee Nagar, arrested

The incident was captured on CCTV and has been shared widely on the internet.

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In a shocking incident, a man from Delhi was arrested on Sunday for stabbing a girl multiple times with a knife in the Mukherjee Nagar area in broad daylight. The incident was captured on CCTV and has been shared widely on the internet.

According to reports, the incident took place on March 22. The passers-by intervened and tried to stop and catch the accused. Although, the girl did not suffer grievous injuries in this attack and is out of danger.

The police have identified the accused as Aman. In the CCTV footage, the 22-year-old could be seen stabbing the girl with the knife several times.

It has been known that students in Mukherjee Nagar used to make fun of the accused, Aman, and call him mentally ill as he used to keep roaming in the area, without doing anything.

The woman he targeted would visit Mukherjee Nagar to study in a library. In the surveillance video, the man can be observed sprinting towards the woman, forcefully knocking her down, and subsequently striking her several times.

The man who is under arrest told the police that she ridiculed him, causing him to take a knife from a nearby vegetable vendor and launch an attack on her in a fit of rage.

Last year in April, another incident was reported from Northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar where a man killed his live-in partner and dumped her body 12 lm away from a house with the help of his sister.

Police, later, found the body of Rohina Naz alias Mahi, a resident of Uttarakhand’s Mirajpur, lying near Krishna Public School. The police arrested the sister of the accused in this case.

According to the police, the accused, identified as Vineet, was on the run while his sister Parul was arrested for helping him conspire the murder and hide the body.

The 25-year-old Mahi and Vineet eloped four years ago the date of the crime and were living together in Delhi. Deputy Commissioner of Police Joy Tirkey had said that Mahi was pressuring him for marriage and because of this, the couple used to fight frequently.

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Delhi Metro services to begin at 2:30 pm on Holi

Delhi metro services will not be available till 2:30 pm on all Lines of the Delhi Metro including Rapid Metro/Airport Express Line.

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Delhi Metro services will begin at 2:30 pm from terminal stations on all lines on the occasion of Holi, March 25, and will continue normally thereafter.

The Delhi Metro on X, said that the metro train services to start at 2:30 pm on the day of the Holi festival, March 25 (Monday), adding that it said metro services will not be available till 2:30 pm on all Lines of the Delhi Metro including Rapid Metro/Airport Express Line.

Earlier on March 14, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of two additional corridors of Delhi Metro’s Phase 4 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Thursday. The cost of these 2 corridors of the Delhi Metro Phase 4 project is Rs 8,399 crore. These 2 lines will be 20.762 km long. The construction of these projects is slated for completion by March 2026.

During the press release, the government said that the Inderlok- Indraprastha corridor will be an extension of the Green Line and will provide interchange with the Blue, Violet, Magenta and Airport Line, Yellow and Red lines, while the Lajpat Nagar- Saket G Block corridor will connect Violet, Pink, Magenta and Silver lines.

Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar- Saket G Block corridor will be entirely elevated and have 8 stations, as per the reports. The Inderlok- Indraprastha corridor will have 10 stations. The Prime Minister also interacted with beneficiaries of the PM SVANidhi scheme. He distributed loans under the scheme to 1 lakh street vendors (SVs) including 5000 SVs from Delhi.

According to official records, till now up to Rs 82 lakh loans which amount to Rs 10, 978 crore have been disbursed to more than 62 lakh street vendors all over India. Speaking to the media at the event earlier, the Prime Minister said that the program PM SVANidhi Mahotsav was dedicated to those who are always around us and without whom one cannot imagine our lives.

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7 BJP MLAs suspended from Delhi Assembly’s Budget session for interrupting LG’s address

Pandey said that such behaviour by the BJP MLAs amounted to lowering the dignity of the House.

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Seven out of eight Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) were suspended on Friday for the remainder of the Budget session of the Delhi Assembly for allegedly interrupting Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena’s address.

On Thursday, they were marshalled out of the House for their unruly behaviour. According to the reports, the seven BJP MLAs were interrupting Governor Saxena during his address to the House as they sought to attack the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led-AAP government.

Taking cognisance of the matter, the Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel sent the matter of disruption to the Privileges Committee.

On the second day of the session, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Dilip Kumar Pandey and the party convenor Kejriwal whip in the Assembly. Pandey pointed out the disruption made by the BJP MLAs during the LG’s speech, he said MLAs have disrupted Saxena’s address marking the opening of the budget session at least eight times. He further said that such behaviour by the BJP MLAs amounted to lowering the dignity of the House.

AAP MLA Pandey, later moved a proposal that the matter be referred to the Delhi Assembly Privileges Committee, demanding the suspension of the seven BJP MLAs from the proceedings of the House, until the panel decides on the matter. Through a voice vote, the proposal was passed.

Despite several warnings from the Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, BJP Vijender Gupta interrupted Saxena while he was citing the AAP’s achievements. Following this, the Speaker asked the House marshals to take Gupta out.

Later, when LG Saxena began his address, other leaders from the BJP party continued disrupting him as Saxena cited several Kejriwal government’s achievements.

After all this, the BJP MLAs defied the Goel and refrained from interrupting the Saxena’s address, to which the Speaker had to ask the marshals to take them out of the House too.

The House suspended seven BJP MLAs out of eight, the Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri was not suspended, however, he walked out with other suspended BJP leaders in protest against the decision of the House to suspend its MLAs.

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