Panic gripped schools in the national capital and adjoining <keyword id="19895934" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Noida" source="keywords">Noida</keyword> after six of them received <keyword id="19956757" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="bomb-threats" source="keywords">bomb threats</keyword> here on Wednesday morning, police officials said. <keyword id="21489115" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mother-Mary-School" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Mother Mary School" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Mother Mary School">Mother Mary School</keyword> at Mayur Vihar, <keyword id="21489116" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="delhi-public-school-at-dwarka-sanskriti-school-in" source="keywords">Delhi Public School at Dwarka, Sanskriti School in</keyword> Chanakyapuri, <keyword id="29606" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="delhi-public-school" source="Orion">Delhi Public School</keyword> at Vasant Kunj, Amity School in Saket and <keyword id="19900881" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="delhi" source="keywords">Delhi</keyword> Public School (<keyword id="7535" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="dps" source="Orion">DPS</keyword>) in Noida Sector 30 have received bomb threats via email, they said. All schools have been evacuated after local police was informed about the emails, Delhi Police officials said. Bomb detection team, bomb disposal squad and officials of fire brigade have been rushed to the <keyword id="21489114" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="schools-in-Delhi" source="keywords">schools in Delhi</keyword> and a <keyword id="19920116" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="search-operation" source="keywords">search operation</keyword> is underway, a police officer said. Noida Police said that classes have been suspended in DPS, Noida and police force has been deployed. "Taking immediate cognizance of the information, checking is being done around the school by the police force. Other necessary measures are also being taken," the Noida Police said in a brief statement. More schools are said to have received a similar threat mail and it is suspected that one person was behind it all, an officer said. Security agencies, including Delhi Police Special Cell, are looking to find the source of the email.

5 schools in Delhi, 1 in Noida receive bomb threats, searches underway

Often success comes when expected the least, and a Delhi-NCR based girl Raksha Gopal couldn't contain her happiness when the same happened to her recently. Little had she expected that she would get a call from the Union Minister <keyword id="119642" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Prakash-Javadekar">Prakash Javadekar</keyword> himself, informing that she had topped the Class 12 Board examinations with a 99.6 per cent. "The moment I got a call from Javadekar sir congratulating me, I couldn't stop jumping," says an overjoyed Raksha. It was all the more overwhelming for Raksha, especially because she had only expected to get above average marks. Meanwhile, ever since CBSE released the results, the internet got raving about this all India topper's stellar mark sheet which had almost a 100 in all her subjects. 
	
	
	
	
	
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 Not many, however, know that there's much more to Raksha than this success. The extraordinary 17-year-old student is a pianist with a grade five certificate from the <keyword id="196063" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Trinity-College">Trinity College</keyword> of Music, London. She is an avid reader and particularly loves John Grisham books. Also, a blogger and a keen linguist who is learning French, Raksha says she never took any tuitions and found time even while giving her exams to play the piano. Raksha attributes her success in Board exams to her parents, sister and teachers. She says it's because of her hard luck, but doesn't forget to credit her luck for her success. For this topper, focusing on quality of what she was studying was imperative, more than the quantity of the syllabus. Also, being Consistent is key, according to Raksha's teachers. Their advice - "Be focused like Raksha throughout the year and not just in the months leading to the big day." The <keyword id="1366800" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amity-Noida">Amity Noida</keyword> student is now eyeing a seat in <keyword id="6360099" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-University">Delhi University</keyword>, preferably in <keyword id="72476" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lady-Shri-Ram-College">Lady Shri Ram College</keyword> or Miranda House.

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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=orahi&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Orahi</a>, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=gurgaon&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Gurgaon</a>-based <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=carpooling+app&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">carpooling app</a> made headlines in April when it announced that it had acquired 13-year-old <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=akshat+mittal&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Akshat Mittal</a>’s highly popular (and topical)<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=odd-even.com&amp;sortorder=effectivedate"> Odd-Even.com </a>for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash deal. 
 
In a bid to curb pollution in the city, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=delhi+government&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Delhi government</a> led by Chief Minister <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=arvind+kejriwal&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Arvind Kejriwal</a> proposed an <keyword id="3163158" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="odd-even-rule">Odd-even rule</keyword> that restricted private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers to run on alternate days of the week. 
 
The first phase of the Odd-even rule came into effect from January 1 and though it reportedly did manage to lessen the levels of pollution in the capital, it also met with complaints from commuters who had to find other means of transport on days they couldn’t take their cars. 
 At that time, help came in the form of a <keyword id="1068586" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Carpooling">carpooling</keyword> website called <keyword id="3177440" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="odd-even-com">Odd-Even.com</keyword> that was founded by <keyword id="3173575" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Akshat-Mittal">Akshat Mittal</keyword>, a student of Amity International School, Noida that met with instant and unprecedented popularity because of its convenience user-friendly interface. 
 
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Odd-Even.com promoted the concept of carpooling among commuters on a friendly basis and lets users make a commuter preference in terms of gender and age after they have registered on the website with their name, age, mobile number and vehicle’s registration number. One could either choose a one-way travel or a return trip. 
 So when news broke that Mittal had sold off his website to another <keyword id="3318659" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Carpooling-App">carpooling app</keyword>, that too barely 10 days before the implementation of the second phase of the Odd-even formula, everyone was naturally curious to know what really went behind that deal. 
 And, finally two months after the acquisition, <keyword id="3207165" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Orahi">Orahi</keyword>’s COO and Founder, <keyword id="1151710" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Arun-Bhati">Arun Bhati</keyword> tells Business Insider in a freewheeling chat why acquiring Odd-Even.com in April made absolute sense. 
 
For starters, Bhati tells us that they noticed how the traffic to the site during the first phase of Odd-Even rule was unimaginably high and they assumed that a repeat would occur during the second phase of the Odd-Even rule as well because of the absolute popularity the site enjoyed. 
 
“That’s why we set a plan in process to have talks with Mittal and enter into a partnership with him to acquire Odd-Even.com which would in turn be integrated with Orahi. From a business point of view, this was absolutely the right thing to do,” he added. 
 
Secondly, Odd-Even was successful in attracting the right kind of audience to its site, thinks Bhati. 
 
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“This is the audience that wants to carpool. It was perfect for us. Thus, when we acquired Odd-Even.com, we also got access to the 30,000 users who had registered on the site allowing us to take our total user base upto 70,000 in no time,” he explained, adding that it also allowed Orahi to cater to a larger audience. 
 
Lastly, from the customer point of view, after the acquisition Orahi would’ve now been in a position to allow greater flexibility to users in terms of increased numbers of carpooling options in every direction possible, said Bhati. 
 
As a part of the partnership, Orahi had also inducted Akshat Mittal on the company’s advisory board as a technical and domain expert, in return providing mentorship to the little genius on the carpooling business. 
 
Since April, the Odd-Even website re-directs users to the Orahi interface. A case of total win-win!

Here's why Orahi, the
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<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/53772119.cms" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" /> As a result of burgeoning pressure by agitating Amity students in the <keyword id="3577224" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sushant-Rohilla">Sushant Rohilla</keyword> suicide case for the past week, two teachers directly responsible for the third year law student taking his own life, have reportedly resigned from their positions. 
 BP Sehgal, (Director) and <keyword id="3582437" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="isheeta-rutabhasini">Isheeta Rutabhasini</keyword> who is permanent faculty member, had been sent on forced leave three days ago as hundreds of students gathered outside the Noida college campus to protest what they called deliberate harassment and torture by authorities on Rohilla for no fault of his. 
 
Here's how the case had unfolded so far: 
 
1) Rohilla was found hanging in his room at his residence in Sarojini Nagar on August 10. He was shattered after he learned that he would not be allowed to take his sixth semester exams due to low attendance. In his suicide note, he reportedly wrote he was a failure and did not wish to live. His mother, a teacher, walked in after coming back from school at 2.30pm to find Sushant hanging from the ceiling fan and a suicide note, which said he was sorry to have failed them and for not being a good brother and a son. 
 
2) His friends and family alleged Sushant had suffered a foot injury because of which he was unable to attend classes for at least two weeks. He had missed many classes before, they said, because he was busy representing college at various events and even organising event for the college for which he should have been given attendance. 
 3) Meanwhile, as the issue snowballed, <keyword id="558171" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amity-Law-School">Amity Law School</keyword> claimed in a statement that Sushant had 43 per cent attendance and this had been “conveyed to his parents many times through mail. Since the institute is affiliated to the Guru Gobind Singh IP University, the attendance, as per the rules of IP University, was sent to IP, which has the sole discretion to issue admit cards… for sitting in examinations.” It added, “Amity Law School itself had absolutely no role”. The authorities also alleged they did not hear back from Rohilla or his parents despite intimating the, repeatedly. 
 
4) Sushant’s family, however, maintained that no warning or notices were sent to them about his attendance. They said he informed the family about his detention and they got to know about it only when two representatives of IP University visited them on August 11 to pay condolences. They alleged the officials claimed he was irregular to college and was not good in studies. His uncle <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1275149145851178&amp;set=pcb.1275149189184507&amp;type=3">Dinesh Rohilla </a>and sister <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mehak.rohilla/posts/10157404119970093">Mehak Rohilla then shared an email </a>to counter university’s claims, which showed Rohilla wrote to the college requesting them to not debar him from semester examinations due to shortage of attendance. The same day his father <keyword id="123365" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jagdish-Kumar">Jagdish Kumar</keyword>, a joint secretary in Rajya Sabha, blamed college officials for his son’s suicide. “His act of suicide was provoked by some officials of the Institute over trivial but illegal arbitrary issues. No student should ever be tortured over attendance. I will get my son justice,” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1268949276449930&amp;set=a.637407956270735.1073741827.100000046096283&amp;type=3&amp;theater">he wrote on Facebook</a>. 
 
5) Jagdish and Rohilla’s friends, contrary to the university’s claims that he was not a good student and was given grace marks, also posted his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1271988246146033&amp;set=a.637407956270735.1073741827.100000046096283&amp;type=3&amp;theater">meritorious achievements </a>and the <a href="https://twitter.com/TChikker/status/766533537063284737">laurels he brought to Amity</a> which were never considered by the college. 
 
6) Meanwhile, Rohilla's suicide had already <a href="https://twitter.com/TChikker/status/766534455804571648">triggered protests</a> after August 10 outside the University and on social media. In no time, hashtag <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/599603496888840/">#JusticeForSushant</a> started trending. Students refused to attend any classes in the absence of disciplinary action against the culprits. They <a href="https://twitter.com/TChikker/status/766533537063284737">demanded resignation</a> of the two teachers - BP Sehgal and Isheeta Rutabhasini. 
 7) The two faculty members of the law school, who the students accuse of ignoring Rohilla's pleas, were then sent on forced leave soon after. <keyword id="6375590" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="amity-university">Amity University</keyword> claimed it had set up a six member commission for inquiry and both the accused could not return to office till the probe was over. 
 
8) The family members of Sushant Rohilla, meanwhile, lodged a police complaint on Wednesday demanding an investigation into abetment to suicide charges against the accused. 
 
9) Students, meanwhile, came out with a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1079595798797163&amp;set=pcb.1079596108797132&amp;type=3&amp;theater">16-page document titled ‘Bundle of Lies’ </a>to expose Universities ‘false statements’. The document page-by-page deals with all the claims of the University and why they are false and misleading. 
 
10) As protests intensified with alumni joining in, both teachers accused in the case, have now resigned. Agitating students today <a href="https://twitter.com/Chaitali_1810/status/766567956688039936">congratulated each other</a> on their win and warded off unwanted politicization attempt as <a href="https://twitter.com/Chaitali_1810/status/766525571505360896">ABVP workers tried to hijack their efforts </a>by joining the protest. 
 
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The suicide case that is rocking Amity - One of India's 'Leading' Universities

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/44925402.cms" /> The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to develop <keyword id="17425" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Allahabad">Allahabad</keyword> as an integrated industrial township like <keyword id="18858" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Noida">Noida</keyword>. It has come up with a proposal to develop Allahabad as an “access-controlled township that will have 4G network and full <keyword id="47655" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wi-Fi">Wi-Fi</keyword> connectivity with homogeneity of design for all building structures,” an official release said. 
 The Samajwadi Party government led by Chief Minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword> has been promoting its development agenda to win back support after its dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections. 
 
A presentation on the plan of the new city was made to senior officials from the infrastructure and industrial development department and Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation during a meeting last week. 
 
“Around 25% area of the township would be reserved for industries with dedicated power supply, prepaid electricity meters, provision for 100 per cent water harvesting, zero-discharge mechanism, and CNG supply network,” said Sanjiv Saran, principal secretary, industrial development. 
 
Amity University, Fortis Healthcare and Maruti Suzuki have already expressed interest to invest in the state and the government is considering to allot them land in Allahabad. 
 
“The education department has been asked to prepare a proposal to develop the university in 40 acres of land,” an official statement said.

UP Govt To Develop Allahabad Like Noida

The news has been abuzz with reports of a <keyword id="19956942" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bomb-threat" source="keywords">bomb threat</keyword> in several <keyword id="19919010" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="schools" source="keywords">schools</keyword> in Delhi and the National Capital Region. Since then, many officials have already emphasised that the threats were a <keyword id="19981055" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="hoax" source="keywords">hoax</keyword>, and that there is no cause for worry at the moment. Let’s take a look at the latest updates that followed these bomb calls. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="What happened?" comment="subhead" text="What happened?">What happened?</cmsannotation> On Wednesday morning, news reports revealed that two Delhi schools — Mother Mary School in East Delhi and Dwarka’s <keyword id="29606" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="delhi-public-school" source="Orion">Delhi Public School</keyword> — had received bomb threats via email. Follow up reports noted that a total of nearly 100 schools in <keyword id="19913115" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-NCR" source="keywords">Delhi-NCR</keyword> had received similar reports in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, with the emails having been sent as early as 4 AM. Delhi Fire Service added that it had received 97 bomb threat calls from different schools by 12 PM. Central agencies have since explained that many airports and hospitals have also received similar bogus threats on Monday and Tuesday. Amity International School in Lucknow too received bomb threat messages, following which the school was scanned, again to no avail. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="What steps have been taken?" comment="subhead" text="What steps have been taken?">What steps have been taken?</cmsannotation> Following the bomb threats, local <keyword id="19915114" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="police" source="keywords">police</keyword> evacuated the affected schools, and bomb detection and disposal squads were dispatched to the schools to confirm the threat. Schools concluded early, and approximately 3,500 students were sent home via parents or school buses. The students’ school bags were left behind as a precautionary measure. Delhi Minister <keyword id="2425009" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="atishi" source="Orion">Atishi</keyword> later explained that “no suspicious items” have been found in any of the schools thus far, and explained that a detailed search is underway. Delhi’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Devesh Kumar Mahla also confirmed the same. Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena urged the Police Commissioner to run a complete probe to determine the perpetrators' identities urgently, and to rigorously improve security measures in the Union Territory. He assured that the culprits would receive strict punishment for their part in the widespread paranoia. Meanwhile, Special Commissioner of Police RP Upadhyay called the bomb a “terror threat”, noting that the Counter Intelligence Unit of the Special Cell has taken up the matter. Authorities have heightened security protocols at metros, railway stations, bus terminals and marketplaces. Meanwhile, Atishi explained that schools will function normally from tomorrow onwards. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Who sent the threats?" comment="subhead" text="Who sent the threats?">Who sent the threats?</cmsannotation> Official sources speculated that one person might be behind this mass mailing chain, with initial reports tracing the source back to Russia. This origin was determined by the IP address of the emails, which came from the ‘<a href="mailto:swaarim@mail.ru">swaarim@mail.ru</a>’ address. <keyword id="19898134" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Police" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Delhi Police" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Delhi Police">Delhi Police</keyword> noted that “swaarim” is a propaganda-connected word frequently used by the Islamic State, and is investigating whether any such organisations might be involved. However, some principals of the affected schools have also claimed that the threats might have been spam sent by parents dissatisfied by the schools’ functioning. They asserted that similar hoaxes have become more rampant over the past couple of months. Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj remarked that it was a strange coincidence that a BJP spokesperson published a bomb-related tweet yesterday, urging an <keyword id="19919604" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="investigation" source="keywords">investigation</keyword> into the connection was necessary. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Which colleges received the threat?" comment="subhead" text="Which colleges received the threat?">Which colleges received the threat?</cmsannotation> While the entire list has not been revealed yet, the following schools have been confirmed to have received the bomb threats, as per Mint: Amity School, Army Public School, DPS International School, BGS Vijnatham School,DPS schools (Dwarka, East of Kailash, Knowledge Park 5, Noida, RK Puram, Sector 122, Vasant Vihar), G D Goenka, Guru Harkrishan Public School, Mother Mary’s School, Salwan Public School, Sanskriti School, St. Thomas' Girls Senior Secondary School.

Delhi bomb threats: What we know so far

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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Ringing+Bells">Ringing Bells</a>, the company that launched '<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Freedom251">Freedom 251</a>', the world's cheapest smartphone at an unbelievable Rs 251 has stopped taking orders for 24 hours due to overload. 
 
The Noida-based company launched the smartphone yesterday. Bookings started today morning at 0600 hrs. 
 
"Dear friends, we are very grateful for your enormous response and your kind patronage and would submit that as of now we received approx. Six Lacs hits per second as a result of your kind overwhelming response, servers are over loaded," <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Freedom251">Freedom251</a> said on its website. 
 
"We humbly submit that we are therefore taking a pause and upgrading the service and will revert within or before 24 hours," it added. 
 The company has been set up five months ago by Amity University graduate <keyword id="3250964" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Mohit-Kumar-Goel">Mohit Kumar Goel</keyword>. He launched the Freedom 251 at an event attended by BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi. 
 
Image credit: Indiatimes

Ringing Bells stops taking
orders for 24 hrs for Freedom251

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/51053539.cms" /><keyword id="6428840" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ringing-Bells">Ringing Bells</keyword>, which is selling world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs 251, claimed it received 30,000 confirmed orders and over six lakh hits before the site crashed on first day of the bookings. 
 
Pre-booking started at 6 am on Thursday and stopped by mid-day after the website crashed due to overwhelming response. 
 
Ringing Bells director Mohit Goel claimed 30,000 orders were booked on the first day. 
 
"We are not hiding anything. The money collected is being kept in an escrow account and the company won't get the funds till the deliveries are done. Orders will be taken for a maximum of 25 lakh phones online and another 25 lakh offline. We are promising 100% deliveries to all 50 lakh bookings by June 30, starting from April," said Goel. 
 
Meanwhile, the telecom ministry is keeping a close watch on the sales of the Noida-based Ringing Bells phone. 
 
"An initial internal assessment of the ministry shows the price of the smartphone can't be less than Rs 2,300 but the government won't step in for now unless there's a proven case of wrongdoing,” ET quoted a person as saying. 
 
Meanwhile, Mohit Goel, who is rolling out the world’s cheapest smartphone, belongs from Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. 
 
Mohit is the managing director of Ringing Bells and often helped his father at the grocery shop. 
 
Mohit has done engineering from Amity University. 
 
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