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          DU Open Book Exam Result 2020: HC asks Delhi University to expedite evaluation process

          The court directed the varsity to issue letters to principals of all its affiliated colleges highlighting the need for expediting the evaluation process and expeditiously declaring results.
          Delhi UniversityDelhi University
          NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked Delhi University and its examiners to expedite the evaluation process of online open book examination (OBE) and declare the results preferably by the first week of October. The court directed the varsity to issue letters to principals of all its affiliated colleges highlighting the need for expediting the evaluation process and expeditiously declaring results.

          The court asked the varsity to issue a circular that the last date for applying for comfort (assurance) letter by postgraduate and undergraduate students, who are seeking admission in foreign universities, is September 18.

          It said the results of concerned post graduate students, who are seeking to travel abroad for higher studies, be declared on before September 28.

          A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad said the results of post graduate students, who wish to go abroad for higher studies, be uploaded on the Delhi University's portal the same day on the letterhead of the varsity along with digital signature by the concerned official without a rider that the result is provision. The students can also download the result from the website.

          Regarding the undergraduate final year students, who are seeking admission in foreign universities, the court was assured by the varsity officials that the letter finalised by them for undergraduate students containing provisional results shall be directly sent to the foreign university well within the cut-off date.

          So if the cut-off date fixed by a foreign university for submitting documents is September 17, the Delhi University will issue the letter to them on priority by September 17.

          The court said after sending the letters to foreign universities along with the provisional results of undergraduate students, Delhi University will intimate the concerned student about it to enable them to apply for visas.

          The court listed the matter for further hearing on September 23, when the university will give a firm date for declaration of results of final year undergraduate students.


          The court was informed by advocate Mohinder Rupal, representing the Delhi University, that they have received around 900 e-mails from students who are seeking admission in Indian or foreign universities for further studies.


          After sorting out the emails received till September 14, there are 15 and 277 students of postgraduate and undergraduate courses respectively, who are seeking admissions in foreign universities and need their results to be declared expeditiously.


          The court was hearing issues being faced by students who are moving abroad for higher education. The issue cropped up during the hearing of a petition concerning OBE for final year undergraduate DU students.


          The varsity had earlier told the court that the results will be declared at the end of October.
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          Hope for stranded Aussies as arrival caps are set to increase | Daily Mail Online
           
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          Hope for stranded Aussies as arrival caps preventing them from coming home are increased by 2,000 a week - but some won't make it home for Christmas

          • More than 25,000 Aussies are struggling to get home due to arrival caps 
          • Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese wants the PM to offer RAAF planes 
          • Government today increased arrival cap from 4,000 to 6,000 a week 

          Arrival caps limiting the number of Australians who can enter the country are set to increase, giving hope to Aussies who are stranded overseas.

          Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack on Wednesday announced he is lifting the weekly cap from 4,000 to 6,000 on 28 September. 

          Asked what would happen if any state premier refuses to take more passengers, he said: 'They will comply'. 

          Sheree Richardson, from Perth, and her three young children were forced to sleep on the floor of London's Heathrow airport for three days after being bumped from flights because of coronavirus travel caps

          Sheree Richardson, from Perth, and her three young children were forced to sleep on the floor of London's Heathrow airport for three days after being bumped from flights because of coronavirus travel caps

          Under the plan, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia will take 500 extra passengers per week and South Australia will take an extra 360.

          There are currently no commercial international flights to the ACT, the Northern Territory or Tasmania. 

          However, Mr McCormack warned that some Australians will still be left stranded because the caps are needed to protect the hotel quarantine system.

          'Not every Australian will be able to get home by Christmas, I have always said that,' he said. 

          The transport minister said he would consider using federal facilities such as Howard Springs in the NT to house returned travellers but hotel quarantine is preferred at the moment. 

          Mr McCormack is also urging Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to consider Cairns and the Gold Coast as quarantine locations.  

          More than 25,000 Aussies are struggling to get home from countries including the UK, India and the Philippines because strict limits on the number who can enter Australia have led airlines to cancel flights.

          Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese wants the prime minister to bring them home this month and has suggested using RAAF planes to help them. 

          Scott Morrison is being urged to send his private plane dubbed Shark One (pictured) and other RAAF VIP aircraft to fetch Australians who are stranded overseas due to arrival caps

          Scott Morrison is being urged to send his private plane dubbed Shark One (pictured) and other RAAF VIP aircraft to fetch Australians who are stranded overseas due to arrival caps

          Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and wife Jenny board a RAAF aircraft in June 2019

          Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and wife Jenny board a RAAF aircraft in June 2019

          The prime minister's private jet (pictured) is a converted Qantas A330 that was upgraded for a reported $250million in 2019

          The prime minister's private jet (pictured) is a converted Qantas A330 that was upgraded for a reported $250million in 2019

          The prime minister's private jet, which he named Shark One after his NRL team the Cronulla Sharks, is a converted Qantas A330 that was upgraded for a reported $250million in 2019. 

          Mr Albanese said sending RAAF jets to bring home vulnerable Aussies is a 'practical' solution. 

          'There's something very practical that he can do because the RAAF VIP fleet is largely sitting idle,' he told reporters on Tuesday. 

          'We're hearing stories that are flooding electorate offices around the country, of desperate people. We have a woman with a one-year-old child told to go to a homeless shelter,' he said.

          Shark One: Scomo's 100-seater private jet

          Named 'Shark One' after Mr Morrison's beloved NRL team the Cronulla Sharks, the KC30-A tanker is a welcome improvement for the PM and his entourage and can now travel from Australia to Russia in a single voyage.

          The plane is a previous Qantas and Jetstar commercial A330, which was bought in 2015 by Airbus and modified by Airbus into a freighter and air-to-air refueller.

          Shark One has a customised interior, and can comfortably carry more than 100 passengers in a lie-flat configuration. 

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          'We have women who are about to give birth, desperate to get home. The government has access to these planes.'

          Mr Albanese said the RAAF planes are flying around empty as pilots train and they could be used for rescue flights to 'bring home one hundred at a time from Europe.'

          He also said the government should pay Qantas and Virgin to fly people home.

          'It is simply unacceptable that the Prime Minister continues to say that there's nothing he can do about it and he hopes to have these families home by Christmas. 

          'Well, I think those who are desperate to get home should be brought home in September,' he said.  

          The government is working with states and territories to increase the arrival caps which have led airlines to only offer first and business class seats to minimise losses.

          The caps were brought in to ease pressure on states' hotel quarantine systems - but Mr Albanese said the government could use federal facilities. 

          He said: 'The only thing that is missing here isn't hotel space, it's leadership.'  

          Western Australia has joined calls for a federal quarantine facility for returning Australians after the Northern Territory said it was open to more international arrivals being housed near Darwin.

          But Australian Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram said the proposal was not possible.

          Early in the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government established quarantine centres on Christmas Island and at Howard Springs in the NT to house people returning from China and Japan.

          Christmas Island is now being used as a detention facility.

          And Mr Outram says Australian Medical Assistance Teams used to staff Howard Springs are tied up elsewhere.

          He said the doctors, nurses and allied health staff were drawn from the states and territories.

          'Quarantine facilities can't be run without medical professionals on the ground,' Mr Outram told ABC radio.

          'At the moment the AUSMAT capability, I imagine, would be pretty stretched because of the need for the states and territories to be running their own health services, plus other things going on around the pandemic.'

          Mr Outram said the ABF was working with the states to maximise hotel quarantine capacity, with about 12,000 beds available at any one time.

          'But it's not enough if I'm being honest,' he said.

          'As long as the caps remain with the hotel quarantine in place it's going to be difficult to envision a situation where the airlines will start bringing more passengers.' 

          Kate Biggers Smith (pictured right with a family member) is stranded in the United Arab Emirates trying to get on a flight back to Australia

          Kate Biggers Smith (pictured right with a family member) is stranded in the United Arab Emirates trying to get on a flight back to Australia

          On Monday Labor demanded the government lifts strict arrival caps. 

          Labor Home Affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally said the Commonwealth should provide charter flights and put Aussies in federal quarantine facilities in the Northern Territory or on Christmas Island.

          Current caps on overseas arrivals 

          Sydney – limit of 350 passenger arrivals per day;

          Perth – limit of 525 passenger arrivals per week;

          Brisbane – limit of 500 passenger arrivals per week;

          Adelaide – limit of 500 passenger arrivals per week;

          Canberra, Darwin – passenger limits on each flight to be discussed with jurisdictions on a case-by-case basis;

          Hobart – no international flights

          Melbourne - International flights suspended

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          'It is Peter Dutton's responsibility under the constitution to ensure that citizens can cross the border and can come home. And if they need quarantine, then that is a federal responsibility,' she told the ABC on Monday.

          'Let's remember, at the beginning of this health pandemic, the Commonwealth brought people home from Wuhan, and from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, they quarantined them in federal quarantine facilities. 

          'Now, if the Commonwealth Government is serious about getting a stranded Australian home, they need to step up, show leadership, put a plan in place.' 

          Senator Keneally said if she were in power it would be her 'number one priority' to bring home 3,500 overseas Australians who are medically or financially vulnerable.   

          Speaking on ABC show Insiders on Sunday, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said he 'would be happy to double the number of people tomorrow' if states agreed.

          Senator Keneally said sarcastically: 'I missed the memo where we decided in Australia that international borders and quarantine responsibility were a state responsibility. They are the Commonwealth's responsibility.'

          She added: 'Is he a minister, or is he a mouse? Take a plan forward. Come up with a plan to get these stranded Australians home.' 

          Health Minister Greg Hunt said: 'If we can lift hotel quarantine numbers, we can increase the number of Australians that can return home.

          'We are working constructively with the states to that effect.

          'We want to ensure that every Australian that wants to come home is home by Christmas.' 

          Australians trying to get home have said they were forced to buy business class tickets on planes with just 30 passengers. Here a child plays in the completely empty economy section

          Australians trying to get home have said they were forced to buy business class tickets on planes with just 30 passengers. Here a child plays in the completely empty economy section

          Hope for stranded Aussies as arrival caps are set to increase

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