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Monday, July 20, 2009

Judge forgives 33 cheating students

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A metropolitan magistrate acquitted 33 young people, including five girls, who were caught cheating in an examination, saying he did not want to ruin their future.

The young people were accused of receiving answers on their mobile phones, while taking an exam at the Delhi Engineering College in 2005.

The CBI had been called in by the college authorities after all the 33 candidates submitted identical papers and scored the same marks. The CBI alleged they had paid for the answers, which they received on their cellphones.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Member of Parliaments want to jam your mobile calls. Here’s why

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A 10-member parliamentary committee will spend considerable time studying public opinion on a matter they think is of great importance — restricting the use of mobile phones.

The Rajya Sabha committee on petitions, with a mandate to consider any representation seeking enactment of a new law, has started proceedings on a plea filed by Gurjit Singh, a lawyer-cum-journalist from Patiala. Singh wants “reasonable restrictions” on the use of mobiles in educational institutions, places of worship and public places.

The committee, headed by former BJP president M. Venkaiah Naidu, has now invited public opinion through advertisements. The Committee will also hear out telecom companies, schools and colleges and submit a report to Rajya Sabha, which will send it to the ministries concerned for action.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Now in Gurgaon, call cops by SMS, complain online

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Gurgaon Police on Tuesday launched a "citizen-centric automated online policing system" that they claimed is superior to the Delhi Police's. You can now register your complaints online without visiting a police station, expect to get a printed copy of your FIR instead of a handwritten one, and call the police by simply sending them a text message from your mobile phone.

Gurgaon top cop Mohindar Lal announced the tech upgrades in his force on the first anniversary of the commissionerate policing system in the township.

Complaints can be registered - and the status of old complaints checked - on the web site www.gurgaonpolice.net. Apart from calling the conventional police emergency number 100, citizens can also send an SMS to 9717595423 to report a crime. The system is already functional, Lal said.

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Monday, May 19, 2008

Mobile phones may lead to problem kids: Study

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Pregnant Mothers who use mobile phones are more likely to give birth to children with behavioural and emotional problems, suggests a landmark study The research on the use of handsets can have major implications on public health.

In the study at the universities of California, Los Angeles, and Aarhus, Denmark, researchers surveyed more than 13,000 children. It found that pregnant women using mobile phones even two or three times a day was sufficient to increase the risk of their babies developing hyper activity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and relationships.

Implications on the child's health could be even greater if the children themselves used cellphones before the age of seven.

These findings are in line with warnings against both pregnant women and children using mobile phones issued by the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection. The committee, Russia's radiation watchdog body holds that the danger posed by , the use of cellphones "is not much lower than the risk to children's health from tobacco or alcohol".

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