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Due to the inexplicable delay in conducting the common university entrance test (CUET), Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV), the only Grade A+ accredited university in the state, will lose many brilliant students to colleges in the state.

By the time DAVV will start the ​admission process for filling seats in its self-finance courses, around 20 per cent syllabi of students admitted in colleges will be over.

The colleges, which usually saw the talented lot going to DAVV, have had the last laugh this year, thanks to the National Testing Agency (NTA) which could not ensure holding the CUET before July. While results of CUET for UG courses are still awaited, entrance exam for PG courses is still underway.

The Indian Railways has announced an all-new avatar of Vande Bharat high speed train with much advanced features that will be launched soon. Vande Bharat 2 will give the best and upgraded facilities to passengers.

Vande Bharat 2 will be equipped with more advancement and improved features like 0 to 100 Kmpl speed in just 52 seconds, maximum speed up to 180 Kmph, a less weight of 392 ton instead of 430 ton and WI-FI content on demand.

New Vande Bharat will also have 32-inch LCD TVs which was of 24 inch in earlier version. 15 percent more energy efficient ACs with dust-free clean air cooling of traction motor will make travel more comfortable.

The new train would reach a speed of 160 kmph in 130 seconds, while the older version did so in 146 seconds.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the exercise of taming inflation can’t be ‘singularly’ left to the monetary policy as it is dependent on many factors, most of which are outside its purview in the current context. She said the Reserve Bank of India has to synchronise monetary policy with the fiscal policy in order to contain inflation.

“The RBI will have to synchronise somewhat, may not be as much synchronised as the other Western developed countries will do,” Sitharaman said at an event organised by think-tank Icrier on Thursday. “I’m not giving any forward direction to the RBI.”

On Monday, the finance minister had said that the government and the RBI will together extend necessary stimulus to maintain economic growth momentum to create jobs, even as the Centre strives to maintain fiscal rectitude.

A survey conducted by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and EdTech company LEAD has revealed that India stands at a confidence level of 75 on a scale of 100 and 36 per cent of students have indicated top-bracket confidence levels (81-100). TISS and LEAD today released India’s first Student Confidence Index.

According to this survey, the confidence index is much higher among students in metropolitan cities. The students studying in CBSE/ICSE schools is marginally higher than that of state board students. However, in Delhi the confidence index is marginally higher for state board students, i.e. 83 per cent in comparison to 80 per cent of ICSE/CBSE boards.

In this study, the researchers surveyed 2,807 students across six metros and six non-metros of India, in which they covered students from classes 6 to 10 in the presence of their parents.

Residents of Delhi can expect Central Vista-themed features on key avenue roads that are connected to Kartavya Path and the India Gate C-hexagon, according to officials aware of the plans.

The New Delhi Municipal Council, which oversees the New Delhi district, is set to spruce up eight stretches in the general vicinity of the intersection: Tilak Marg, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Dr Zakir Hussain Marg, Pandara Road, Tolstoy Marg, Hailey Road, Tansen Marg and Babar Road.

The redeveloped Central Vista Avenue, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday evening, now hosts heritage-style streetlights, pedestrian underpasses, walkways, toilet blocks and street furniture. The walkways now use lakha red granite sourced from Jalore in Rajasthan, the underpasses use brown granite from Bengaluru, the amenities blocks use black granite and the bollards are made of white sandstone sourced from Bharatpur.