For Akanksha Tiwari,who secured first position among the girls in the UP Board exams,it was more of maintaining the family tradition. Her elder sister Shweta Tiwari had secured 8th position in the High School exams last year. Akansha secured 543 marks out of 600. Didi was my source of inspiration. I studied day and night with a dream to top the state. Today the dream came true. I hope to repeat this in the intermediate exams in 2012, said a jubilant Akanksha,adding the credit for her success goes to her mother Usha Tiwari and the teachers of SDNV intermediate college,Wazirganj,Gonda. S C Tiwari,a proud father of Akanksha,is a teacher in a private school in Gonda. I have two daughters and I am proud of them. Akanksha wants to be a software engineer while I wish to see her in civil services, said Tiwari. Akanksha is a very sincere student. She has been active in other activities like sports and music. The college has decided to wave off her fees for intermediate classes as a reward to her success, said principal of SDNV intermediate college Asharam Pal. Kanpur girl kills selfKanpur: Failing to clear the UP Class X exam,16-year-old Kumari Jyoti immolated herself in her 100/146 Colonelganj residence on Tuesday afternoon. A student of Dayanand Saraswati Inter College,Jyoti,failed to clear the UP Board High School exams. Disappointed over the fact,she committed suicide by setting herself on fire. No suicide note was recovered from her residence. ens
