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.
According to examination controller Sanyam Bhardwaj, the announced date sheet is for major subjects while the schedule for minor subjects will be sent to schools separately.
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.
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