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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
TopicBoard exam

Topic: Board exam

Leopards, landslides & 10-km trek couldn’t keep her out of school. Topper Babli has won a road to her village

Babli would wake up at 5 am each day and prepare to leave by 7 am to reach school in time. The route from her village, Maangan, to her school is fraught with dangers.

Board exams twice a year, removal of 3 streams, no written exams till Class 3: NCF draft for school education

Drawing heavily from NEP, National Curriculum Framework draft suggests major rejig in school system for students of Classes 10, 11 & 12. Proposals also suggest no assessment till Class 2

Internet ban, no bathroom breaks — Bengal aims to plug cheating, paper leaks during board exam

Mamata Banerjee's govt will impose a temporary Internet ban in seven districts to crack down on question paper leakage.

‘Don’t mislead students,’ board exams will be offline, rules Supreme Court

The court was hearing a plea that sought directions to authorities to consider other modes of assessment.

Embarrassed by series of blunders in Class 10 & 12 board papers, CBSE sets up review panel

A controversial reference to 'feminists' in a CBSE question paper Saturday resulted not only in social media criticism, but Parliament uproar. It's the third paper to stoke a row this month.

EntranceZone’s 10 stress-busting tips for students preparing for the Board exam

A student has to compete with lakhs of other students and score high in the exam. While this may lead to a lot of stress, it can be handled by following a few tips.  

Punjab Dalit topper’s real struggle will be at DU. Village roots vs Netflix culture

Jaspreet Kaur says she hadn’t heard of Miranda House in Delhi University, one of the colleges the Punjab Boards topper has applied to.

From 2019, easier Class X math board exam for those who want to dump subject in Class XI

CBSE will set papers at two difficulty levels: Mathematics standard, the kind students currently face, and mathematics basic.

What happened to students who topped CBSE ten years ago?

Being a topper helps for a while. But it also comes with added pressure to stay on top.

Blinded by pellet shots in 2016, Kashmiri teen Insha Mushtaq shines in Class 10 exams

Insha Mushtaq (16) was sitting in her home at Shopian in July 2016 when a barrage of pellets fired by security personnel hit her, leaving her fully blind.

On Camera

India is the world’s first successful poor democracy

Most poor countries that experimented with democracy failed to sustain it. While some collapsed into military rule, others slid into one-party states or ethnic autocracies.

RBI opens door to urban co-op bank licences after 2 decades. But high capital bar may shut most out

Proposal to restart licensing is welcome, but Rs 300-crore minimum capital requirement could mean only handful of credit societies qualify, say sector executives

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.