DU students, led by the university’s student union (DUSU), have been demanding the cancellation of the final exams citing the pressure of the pandemic.
The apex court in June last year had approved the schemes of the CBSE & CISCE for cancellations of remaining examinations scheduled from 1 to 15 July last year due to the pandemic.
The plea contended that the unprecedented surge in Covid has made it impossible to conduct the exams and any further delay would cause irreparable loss to the students' future.
Spate of Covid deaths & infections, disparity in online access to course material, disadvantage for specially-abled students — these are among the concerns raised by students.
In a detailed FAQ document sent to schools, CBSE has said students who are not reachable over the phone for telephonic assessment can be marked absent.
A term-end paper for the ‘analog circuits’ course for second-year electrical engineering students asked them to prepare questions from lecture material and then answer it.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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