Scuttled holiday plans, clashes with entrance dates, another round of tuitions and above all the 'phobia' of facing the examination day yet again -- sum up the dilemma being faced by class 10 and 12 students of Central Board of Secondary Education across the country.
The Swedish teen climate change campaigner said it is 'deeply unfair' that students are asked to appear in the tests during the pandemic.
The Supreme Court refused to entertain a plea of an Islamic organisation that Muslim girl applicants be allowed to wear 'hijab' (scarf), a customary religious dress, in the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test on Saturday.
Exam centres will not only ensure social distancing among examinees -- there will also be a strong focus on avoiding malpractices and conducting the test with minimal human intervention.
The winter session of Parliament normally starts from last week of November or first week of December.
Badminton player Saina Nehwal was 'cancelled' on Twitter for praising PM Modi's speech.
Fear of upcoming NEET examinations has allegedly led a girl student to die by suicide at her residence in Coimbatore, the police said on Wednesday.
Analysts have their doubts how much independence she has as finance minister. As Amit Mitra advises the chief minister, day-to-day work is done by the finance secretary and the chief secretary.
He said that he had alerted the CBSE, prime minister and the police on March 17, but no action was taken.
The students and their parents staged a protest outside the Department of Pre-University Education and pelted stones at the PUC building.
The guidelines by an expert committee, set up for revising the academic calendar in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been accepted by the UGC and accordingly universities have been recommended a six-day teaching learning schedule every week.
Demanding cancellation of the paper, MP Congress spokesperson Neelabh Shukla in a statement said, "It is highly objectionable that DAVV coloured the examination of important faculty like journalism in BJP's hues. The students of this subject should be taught party neutrality in a higher education institute."
The authorities in Bihar have registered an FIR against Khan Sir and five teachers for allegedly inciting violence over the controversy surrounding the results of tests conducted by the RRB-NTPC after the recent violent protests in Patna.
The Bihar State Examination Board Class 12 arts topper was on Saturday taken into custody by Patna Police's Special Investigation Team soon after she failed the re-test.
'It is Maharashtra that started this fire.' 'Suddenly, out of nowhere, they started talking about the border dispute being sub judice and they started talking about meeting the people in Belagavi who want to break up our state.'
Two private schools in Noida cancelled classes on Tuesday for the next few days as a precautionary measure over the father of a student testing positive for coronavirus, officials said. The two schools announced their closure in messages sent to the parents. One of the schools, where a student's father tested positive, said it will remain shut from March 4 to March 6.
It is also revealed that Ganesh is 42-years-old and has two kids, reports M I Khan from Patna.
The Bills adopted in 2017 for the same purpose during the AIADMK regime did not get the President's assent.
Hours before he was to appear for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for a third time, a 19-year old youth belonging to a village near Salem died by suicide on Sunday, fearing the outcome of the test he was to take.
'The BJP talks about prosperity, but it doesn't want anybody to prosper.'
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state for the recent leak of a government competitive examination question paper and subsequent cancellation of the test, Chaudhary said because of such incidents youngsters are not getting appointments, and they have to migrate and work in other places.
'We have tried to get in touch with the embassy as well as the Ministry of External Affairs. We have not heard from them yet but I am confident that the government must be putting efforts for our safe and quick evacuationfrom Kabul'
As the Indian Army reported its first case of the infection with a 34-year-old soldier testing positive in Leh, the Army said it has taken a series of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus among the forces such as checking flu symptoms among soldiers on their return from leave and cancelling non-essential travel, conferences and recruitment drives.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Central Board of Secondary Education's plea seeking more time to re-conduct All India Pre Medical Test-2015 exam which was scrapped in view of large-scale cheating in the test.
'It was more than ego.' 'It carried with it a sincere belief that he was the quintessence of the country, that the country's destiny was irrevocably intertwined with his destiny.' An excerpt from T J S George's The Dismantling of India: In 35 Portraits.
The Centre stressed that the next three weeks will be critical for the country reeling from the worst health crisis as it announced a series of measures to shore up medical infrastructure and supplies and scale up vaccination.
This is the first time in the institute's 62-year history that a new academic year will start with no students on campus. Other IITs are likely to follow suit with similar announcements for the autumn semester that runs from July till December.
The court had denied bail to her twice last month.
A SIT has begun process to freeze bank accounts of arrested accused in the Bihar toppers scam. M I Khan/Rediff.com reports from Patna.
Bihar education minister asked if the 'media person who posed queries to the topper is himself a great musician?'
In Bihar, where a bandh had been called, a railway station and a police vehicle were torched, an ambulance attacked and security personnel injured in stone-pelting incidents on the fourth consecutive day of the agitation, while protesters vandalised Ludhiana railway station in Punjab and blocked roads and rail tracks in West Bengal, Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.
MBA aspirants share their experiences and apprehensions for CAT 2009.
Clearly, all of the NEET coaching classes are beyond the capacity of a child from a BPL family.
Uttar Pradesh's anti-copying crusader Surya Pratap Singh tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com how the menace is causing long-term damage to students from the state.
Once the Covid crisis subsides in the state, the NEET exam this year, whether conducted or cancelled, could become an electoral issue next year, along with the BC-MBC reservations issue, especially the 'creamy layer' aspect, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Seven things already different about our everyday life in 2020.
Incidents like these are a wake-up call, says School Education Secretary Anil Swarup. 'Today, if a particular problem has been found, technology allows solutions to address it,' he says, suggesting alternatives such as printing and distribution of encrypted question papers on the day of the exam. Swarup wants electronic tracking to keep tab on who has access to and can, therefore, leak papers.
Prometric to arrange for alternate testing. Affected students being informed by phone and e-mail
'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.'
'Why is the government asking parents to be careful rather than coming up with strict rules and regulations for the companies?'
