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Express scribe gets Patrakar Sangh awardThe Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh's annual Padmashree Yamunatai Khadilkar Award for Investigativ...

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Express scribe gets Patrakar Sangh award

The Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh8217;s annual Padmashree Yamunatai Khadilkar Award for Investigative Journalism8217; has this year been awarded to Prafulla Marpakwar, a special correspondent with The Indian Express, for his expose on the MBBS marks scam. The award, comprising a citation and Rs 10,000 in cash, will be handed over to Marpakwar on June 21, the Foundation Day of the Patrakar Sangh, by senior journalist Madhusudhan Sathye UNI, Delhi, secretary of the Patrakar Sangh Devdas Matale stated in a press release today. Marpakwar wrote a series of reports after Mumbai University8217;s decision in January this year to grant eight grace marks to all final-year MBBS students. Sixty-four students passed as a result of the varsity move. Following the reports, the Governor asked the University to withdraw the grace marks.

SSC results on June 22

The results of Secondary School Certificate SSC examinations conducted by all eight divisions inMaharashtra would be declared on June 22. The students would get their marksheets in their respective schools on the same day at 3 pm, the government announced today. The copies of the result books would be distributed at the allotted centre in each of the division at 10 am on the same day. The last date of verification will be July 6.

Man kills ex-wife at Chembur

An 18-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her former husband near a telephone booth at Chembur this morning. Chatur Singh inflicted nine wounds on his former wife Jaswinder Kaur with a kirpan and walked away at around 10.45 am. The couple were married early this year and divorced after three months. While she stayed at her parents8217; residence in Cheetah Camp at Chembur, Singh was living in Powai.

 

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