HRD minister Lokesh says Jagan's unilateral shift was a bane for 1000s of students in state-run schools ill-equipped to handle CBSE exams. Former CM slams 'regressive, anti-poor mindset'.
Parents recounted how their daughters, including one who cried for hours after the incident, were pressured by school staff to remove their hijabs before the exam.
Variation may be due to state boards' different approaches, says education ministry report. All states have been asked to work on process of standardising assessment.
The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced that it will not award first, second and third divisions to students, in a bid to avoid unhealthy competition.
Like Class 12, CBSE will not announce an overall merit list for Class 10 results either, but will issue a merit certificate to students who have scored the highest marks in subjects.
Portions on Mughal history, caste and inequality, and references to Dalit writers have also been removed. NCERT said it is part of a ‘syllabus rationalisation’ exercise.
Board instructs affiliated schools to seal OMR sheets within 15 minutes of the exams getting over, puts onus of ‘fair’ conduct of exams on centre superintendent.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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