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BJP may not get clear majority in state, say bookies By Neel Shah

year, fathom the bookies in Mumbai’s Satta Bazar. egardless of the specThe current estimates by tacular win of the Bhar- the illegal betting market, taiya Janata Party (BJP) which had early this year prein the 2014 Lok Sabha elec- dicted about the BJP-led altions, the party will not be liance crossing the 272-seat able to get a simple majority Continued on pg 8 « in the Maharashtra polls this

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21 Varsities declared fake, deregularised UGC cracks whip, declares 42 universities fake By Yatin Ingle

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he University Grants Commission (UGC) has released another list of 21 “fake” universities following its first list of 21 universities and has dissolved degrees awarded by these 42 universities. In December, the Students’ Grievance Cell of the Mumbai University received almost five cases of students

having their Master's degrees cancelled, even though they had completed their courses and their marksheets were printed. The cell mentioned that these students had graduated from the universities mentioned in the list and the three-year degrees was awarded to them in a year or two. Every year the UGC audits universities as per the UGC

Act 1956 and displays the list of unrecognised universities on its website. Once the universities are declared fake, the degrees from these universities are dissolved. This list carries a maximum number of fake universities from Uttar Pradesh, followed by Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Continued on pg 8 «


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