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From: shivam <shivamvij@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jun 13, 2005 8:06 PM
Subject: [Reader-list] India has one of the world's best universities
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No exams. No classes. No degrees. Only some violence, a few suicides.
Welcome to India's Universities.

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No exams again, boy ends life


By Siraj Qureshi
Thursday, June 02, 2005
AGRA, JUNE 1: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=71517


A student of Dr B.R. Ambedkar University in Agra committed suicide
yesterday after the authorities put off the pharmacy examinations for
the third year in a row.

Sonvir Singh's classmates took to the streets after the incident and
went on a rampage for over three hours inside the campus today,
pelting stones at the Institute of Basic Science and the
Vice-Chancellor's office. The university authorities had to call in
the police to bring the students under control.

According to the students, Sonvir, a resident of Saiyyan town of Agra,
had shut himself inside his hostel room on Tuesday after he saw that
the university has closed for summer vacation till July 4 without
announcing the exam dates for the pharmacy course. It was to be held
in May.

Fearing that his careerwas doomed, he allegedly took his own life.
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