Bengaluru: As the fees for admissions into government and aided degree colleges has been fixed for various degree courses, students can take admissions by paying less than Rs. 2500 to pursue the degree courses from the academic year of 2019-20.

Application forms will be free for students to get their names registered in the colleges. The college entrance fee must be just Rs 80, while the tuition fee Rs 940 and the college development fee Rs 200. All types of fees, including medical checkups and stationery fees, will be less than Rs. 100, and the laboratory fees will be 260 rupees.

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Kollam (Kerala) (PTI): A Kerala court has sentenced a 20-year-old man to 21 years of imprisonment for raping a minor girl after befriending her on a social media app.

Karunagappally Fast Track Special Court judge Rajeevan Vachal sentenced the convict to 21 years under the relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, special public prosecutor (SPP) N C Premchandran said.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1.1 lakh on the convict, the prosecutor said.

The incident occurred in 2024 when the accused befriended her on a social media app and then offered to take her to the Azheekal beach here.

However, instead of taking her to the beach, he took her to an isolated place behind the CHC hospital at Mynagappally here and raped her, the SPP said.

Following the incident, the girl attempted suicide, but was saved and then told the doctors what had happened, the prosecutor said.

The hospital authorities informed the police, who registered a case and launched an investigation.

The prosecutor said that seven witnesses were examined and 20 documents were submitted before the court to substantiate the guilt of the accused.