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S P Mehrotra and Anil Kumar observed that “such baseless PILs result in wastage of precious time of the court”. They said the PIL appeared to have been filed for “cheap publicity”. Tripathi had challenged the PM’s appointment on grounds that he allegedly failed to take oath at the stipulated time.

RSS chief Bhagwat to visit Lucknow in Jan
The Sarsanghchalak of Rastriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS),Mohan Bhagwat,will be on a two day visit to the state capital on January 9 and 10. This is his first visit after becoming the RSS chief. According to official information,Bhagwat will arrive in Lucknow on January 9 and attend a host of meetings with the sangh workers. On January 10,he will address an open meeting at the Saraswati Shishu Mandir campus in Nirala Nagar.

Minority colleges to continue with BEd
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday allowed the minority colleges to continue with the BEd session 2009-10,which had earlier been declared as ‘zero session’ by the state government. Hearing a petition filed by St Andrews College,Gorakhpur,the Bench comprising Justices Pradeep Kant and Ritu Raj Awasthi ruled that the “order is not applicable on a minority institution”. The state government,through an order on October 15,2009,had declared a zero session for BEd in 2009-10. The petitioner claimed that the order did not apply to minority colleges which were governed by special provisions.