Ritika Chopra

A significant part of the readjustment of boundaries is expected in some of the Assembly seats in Ganderbal, Budgam, Kulgam, Anantnag, Kishtwar, Doda, Ramban, Reasi, Udhampur, Kathua and Samba districts. This is necessary to ensure that a seat falls within one administrative unit, sources said.

Himanchal Singh faced “suspended academic expulsion” for one semester last year for participating in a hunger strike, along with a fellow student, from January 4-7, 2020, to protest against the compulsory retirement of his teacher, Brajesh Rai, in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

AICTE will wait for panel to submit report on courses that will offer flexibility

For Assembly elections to be held in the new UT, delimitation of seats will be necessary. With the Centre having called for a meeting, a look at how delimitation is carried out, and the status of the exercise in Jammu and Kashmir.

The idea to establish a new national school board, on the lines of CBSE, for “swadeshikaran (indigenisation)” of education was first mooted by Ramdev.

At the heart of the process is an unsuccessful pushback by the Ujjain-based Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan, an autonomous organisation under the Education Ministry, working on encouraging and preserving “Ved Vidya”.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has filed an election petition in the Calcutta High Court challenging the Assembly election result of Nandigram constituency, where she had contested and lost.

On June 1, CBSE scrapped the Class 12 Board examination due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision was announced after a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister. It was justified on the ground that "students should not be forced to appear for exams in such a stressful situation".

Until five years ago, there were 90 female students enrolled in B.Com for every 100 men. However, in 2019-20 there were 100 women for every 100 male students in this programme. In absolute numbers, in 2019-20, 41.6 lakh were enrolled in B.Com, of which 20.3 lakh were women and 21.3 lakh were men.

IISc Bangalore remains the world’s top research university, maintaining a perfect score of 100/100 for this metric.

The Education Ministry released the latest edition of the Performance Grading Index or PGI on Sunday. How is it worked out? How have states performed this time?

The decision has been taken after PM Narendra Modi chaired an important meeting today. Steps will be taken to compile the results of Class 12 students as per objective criteria in a time-bound manner.

Students will be evaluated through an alternative mechanism, CISCE chief executive tells The Indian Express

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Of the 32 that have said yes to the exams, about 29 states and UTs have either indicated a preference for CBSE’s Option B or agreed to support the Centre’s decision on the matter.

Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, in his address, said the outcome of the examination impacts every student's life and decides their future in academics.

Several states such as Kerala, Assam, Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Meghalaya have urged the Central Government to vaccinate teachers and students on priority to ensure their safety during their time at the test centres.

CBSE Board Class 12 Exam 2021: Board considering two options for conducting exams which include a shorter paper of only 90 minutes carrying just objective-type questions

Kumar wrote that such a move would have caused “massive hue and cry and popular discontentment” and exposed the Commission to the accusation of favouring one party over another.

In his affidavit, he is said to have stated that the court’s oral observations — on the Election Commission’s role in conducting elections during the second Covid wave — had demoralised the EC’s rank and file.

The EC issued a statement that the "Commission always has appropriate deliberations before any decisions are taken.”

One of the Election Commissioners, it is learnt, strongly objected to the contents of the affidavit filed in Madras HC and the SLP.

The Commission is learned to have asked the state government to provide police protection to the Nandigram RO Kishore Kumar Biswas. Responding to a question, a senior official said Biswas had not approached the EC for protection.

Election Commission data shows that in both absolute numbers and vote share, young voters, particularly first-timers, declined in the state compared to the last Assembly elections. At the same time, the state saw the highest rise among voters 80 years and older.