EDUCATION
UP Board examinations begin today for 52L students
Around 52 lakh students are taking the Class 10 and Class 12 UP Board examination from Thursday. Of these, 27.8 lakh students will appear for Class 10 and 24.1 lakh for Class 12. The exams will be held at 8,373 centres across the state. The UP Secondary Education Board (UPSEB) has identified 254 centres as 'highly-sensitive' and 861 centres as 'sensitive' in view of vulnerability for cheating.
No provision for re-examination if candidate fails to appear, UPSC to SC
It said it conducts the civil services examination strictly in accordance with the rules of examination framed annually by the government. It clarified that any decision regarding age relaxation and compensatory/extra attempt is a policy matter falling under the domain of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
First-ever common entrance test for all Central universities to be held in first week of July: UGC
“The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admission in Undergraduate programs from the academic session 2022-2023 in all UGC funded Central Universities will be conducted in 13 languages namely Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia and English by the National Testing Agency (NTA),” a public notice by UGC said.
Students who returned from Ukraine to get admission in Karnataka colleges
Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar on Monday said arrangements would be made for the students who returned from war-struck Ukraine to continue their studies in the state's medical colleges. The minister made this announcement during a press conference at Vidhana Soudha after meeting a delegation of students who returned from Ukraine.
CBSE starts sending Class 12 part 1 results to schools
The students can contact their respective schools to get the results, an official said. Earlier, on last Saturday, the CBSE had released the results of the first term of Class 10 students in a similar way. The first term examination of class X and XII students were conducted in December last year. The results of both classes have been sent directly to the schools via offline mode. Students can also get it through the offline mode.
After Gujarat, Karnataka all set to introduce Bhagavad Gita in school syllabus
According to sources, the education department, though giving diplomatic statements in this regard, is preparing to teach the Bhagavad Gita, the holy Hindu scripture to students under the moral science subject. However, Congress has maintained that the present syllabus has been prepared by resourceful persons and there is no need to include anything now.
If exam paper leaks, Maharashtra to 'derecognise' school
After the SSC Marathi exam paper allegedly leaked earlier this week, the state government clamped down and derecognised the Laxmibai Secondary and Higher Secondary School, Nilajgaon, where there were allegations of mass-copying. Announcing the strong decisions in the Maharashtra Legislature, Prof. Gaikwad said that henceforth, all students must reach their examination venues at least one hour before the scheduled paper.
Indian students will be able to search for asteroids soon to foray in space stream
Indian students will get an opportunity to join the ambitious asteroid search campaign soon as the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) has extended an invitation to the Rajasthan government to explore opportunities for setting up a joint India-Brazil asteroid search campaign, said Mugdha Sinha, Secretary in the Department of Science and Technology, Rajasthan.
Boys outshine girls in Class XII board exams in Bihar
The Bihar Intermediate Education Council (BIEC) on Wednesday announced the results of Class XII in arts, science and commerce streams. In all the three streams, boys have performed better than girls. Ankit Kumar, the son of a vegetable vendor, came first in commerce stream by securing 473 marks out of 500. Ankit is a student of BD College in Patna.
SC permits Tamil Nadu to reserve 50% seats in super speciality medical courses
The apex court declined to entertain a plea by Dr N. Karthikeyan and others, seeking interim protection as issued by it for academic year 2020-2021. Citing the 1992 Indra Sawhney (Mandal Commission) case, the petitioners argued that there cannot be any reservation for admission in super speciality courses as per nine-judge bench decision.
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