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"False propaganda" over closure of schools in Maha: Tawde
A "false propaganda" is being carried out in Maharashtra over the closure of 1,300 schools with low enrollment in the state, Education Minister Vinod Tawde said today. A few months ago, the government decided to close down over 1,300 zila parishad (ZP)-run schools owing to the reduced number of students and poor education standards. The move drew criticism from various quarters. Defending the decision, Tawde said some of these schools had just a couple of students and it was not viable for the government to run them. Students from these schools are being adjusted in nearly schools, the minister said, adding a "false propaganda" is being carried over the issue. Some political leaders with vested interest made a "hue and cry out" over the issue and are misleading people, he said. "The fact is we have adjusted students from these schools in other schools and ensured they don't suffer." It may be noted that NCP leaders like Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule had ...
3 arrested for CBSE question paper leak
Two teachers from a private school and a tutor have been arrested for involvement in the leak of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 economics question paper, police said on Sunday.
Leaked Class X Sanskrit paper 'fake'
In the wake of the recent CBSE question paper leaks row, the Central Board of Secondary Education issued a notification, presaging students against the circulation of a fake class X Sanskrit question paper that is doing the rounds on social media."It has been brought to notice that a question paper of Class X - Sanskrit is being circulated on social media through Youtube link. This question paper is verified to be an earlier year's question paper. Students are hereby alerted not to believe or subscribe to any such sites," said a press release by the CBSE.The leaks of class XII Economics and Class X Mathematics question papers have caused quite the ruckus, with the board having to re-schedule those two examinations, which in turn has enraged students nationwide.The re-examination for class XII Economics has been scheduled by the board for April 25, while no confirmed date has been announced for the re-exam for class X Mathematics.
CBSE paper leak: 2 teachers, 1 coaching centre owner held
The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday arrested three more people from here in connection with Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE's) Class X and XII papers leak case.Among the arrested persons, are the owner of a coaching centre, Touqeer and two teachers of a private school identified as Rishabh and Rohit.According to the police, Rishabh and Rohit passed the Economics question paper of Class XII to Touqeer, who later circulated the same among the students.The teachers opened the paper 30 minutes before the exam, clicked the picture and forwarded the same to the coaching owner.Earlier on Saturday, the Delhi Police sent three teams to schools, exam centers and residences of students in outer Delhi to investigate the case.More than 60 people have been questioned till now, out of which 10 are tutors of coaching centers. Also, more than 50 cell phones of students and tutors have been seized.According to Police, e-mail address details have been received from Google and that the ..
CBSE paper leak: Two teachers among three persons arrested, says police
Three people, including two teachers of a private school in outer Delhi's Bawana, were arrested by the Delhi Crime Branch in connection with the alleged leak of the Class 12 CBSE economics paper, police said today. The accused were identified as Rishabh and Rohit, teachers at a private school, and Touqeer, a tutor at a coaching centre in Bawana, they said. Touqeer had allegedly leaked the economics paper half an hour before the exam and sent it to the teachers on WhatsApp, the police said. The Delhi Police had registered two cases in connection with the leaks. The first case relating to the leak of the economics paper was lodged on March 27 and the other pertaining to the mathematics paper was lodged on March 28, following a complaint by the regional director of the CBSE. The Class 10 mathematics and Class 12 economic papers were held on March 28 and March 26 respectively. The Crime Branch has questioned over 60 people in connection with the CBSE leak case, including the ...
Plea for fighting DUSU polls; SC asks DU to respond to plea of researcher
The Supreme Court has given the Delhi University the last opportunity to respond to a plea that research scholars be also allowed to contest and represent students in student union polls in the varsity. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanvilker directed authorities, including the DU and the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), to file their replies by May 5 on the petition of Abhishek Verma, a research scholar (Ph.D) in the Department of Chemistry. "Why research scholars who admittedly are 'students' of the university cannot become members/affiliate of the students' union? The research scholars (Ph.D.) cannot be discriminated without any intelligible basis. "The provisions of the constitution of DUSU are in clear contravention of the recommendation of the Lyngdoh committee approved by the Supreme Court, in as much as, the age limit for participating in the elections of DUSU for research scholars stipulated in the constitution of DUSU is (25) ...
HP govt to spend Rs 7,044 cr on education during 2018-19
A sum of Rs 7.044 crore would be spent on education during 2018-19, which is the highest allocation in the budget, Education minister Suresh Bharadwaj said today. Presiding over the annual prize distribution of Government Post Graduate College at Rohroo, he said that the government educational institutions have been mainly instrumental in rapid strides in education and high literacy rate and the government was spending more than 16 per cent of the total budget on education. He said that the government would remove the irritants in implementation of RUSA (Rashtriya Uchattar Shiksha Abhiyan), but its roll back was not possible as large amounts of funds were coming through this programme and even the Rohroo college have received Rs 70 lakh under RUSA. Bharadwaj said that the government was contemplating to bring a transfer policy for the teachers as the existing policy had benefited a small section of teachers, while the remaining teachers suffered and did not get their choice station ...
Paper leak: Google replies to police, e-mail sender identified
The Delhi Police today received a reply from Google which identified the e-mail address from where the CBSE chairperson was sent a mail about the Class 10 mathematics paper being leaked, an official privy to the probe said. The officer of the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police said a Class 10 student had received the mathematics paper on WhatsApp and he had used his father's e-mail ID to send the mail to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairperson. The student and his father are being questioned, he said. Earlier, Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) R P Upadhyay said that the police got a reply from Google on the details it had sort pertaining to the e-mail address. A Crime Branch team, which included Joint Commissioner of Police Alok Kumar and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) G Gopal Naik, reached the office of the CBSE in east Delhi's Preet Vihar in the evening to interact with the board's officials, the police said, adding that CBSE Chairperson Anita Karwal ...
CBSE paper leak: Delhi Police sends teams to schools, exam centers
The Delhi Police on Saturday sent three teams to schools, exam centers and residences of students in outer Delhi to investigate the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X and XII paper leaks.More than 60 people have been questioned till now, out of which 10 are tutors of coaching centers. Also, more than 50 cell phones of students and tutors have been seized.According to Police, e-mail address details have been received from Google and that the person who sent the mail has been identified and inquiry is on. A total of 53 students and 7 teachers have been questioned so far.The Delhi Police has also widened the search for the whistleblower in the CBSE paper leaks, who, on three occasions, alerted the education board about it.The police feels that the whistleblower, who was alerting the CBSE about paper leak through fax, courier and email, is the same person and can prove to be a key link in this case.Hence, to locate the same, the Delhi Police has written to Google to share
Class 12 Hindi paper on social media fake, Pol Sc previous year paper : CBSE
The Class 12 Hindi (Elective) and Political Science papers being circulated on the social media were fake or previous year question paper, the CBSE said today as it urged the people not to spread rumours regarding the papers. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is scheduled to hold the Class 12th Hindi (Elective) and Political Science examinations on April 2 and April 6 respectively. ...a fake question paper of Class XII - Hindi (Elective) (enclosed) is being circulated on social media i.e. WhatsApp, YouTube etc.," the CBSE said in a release. In another release, it said a question paper of Political Science, which was being circulated on social media through a YouTube link, was verified to be an "earlier year's question paper". The CBSE said that the question papers circulating on these social media platforms were either of a previous year or fake. Students are hereby alerted not to believe or subscribe to any such sites, the board said, adding it is requested not to ...
Google helps Delhi Police to identify sender of alert
The Delhi Police SIT, investigating the CBSE paper leaks case, has got a response by Google team which helped them identify the man who has sent the mail to alert the Board Chairman Anita Karwal, a police officer said.
CBSE paper leaks: NSUI protests outside ABVP office
Congress-backed students' body NSUI today staged a protest outside the ITO office of ABVP alleging that office-bearers of the RSS-affiliated students' organisation were "caught leaking" CBSE exam papers in Jharkhand. The NSUI alleged that a district convenor of the ABVP in Jharkhand whose name is Sathish Pandey has been booked in the CBSE question paper leak case. "NSUI strongly condemns the double agenda of the ABVP who protested outside the CBSE office today, while their office-bearers are caught leaking papers via private coaching centres in Chatra, Jharkhand," the Congress' student's said in a statement. The ABVP termed the NSUI's protests as an attempt to defame it and said the arrested persons has no association with it. "If he is guilty, he should be severely punished. He has no current association with ABVP. ABVP is a students' organization of floating population (not an organization of business men!). He was shown the door as soon as he joined a coaching institution as a ...
CBSE quashes Class 12 Hindi paper leak claims
Putting an end to the reports of another paper leak, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday said that the Class 12 Hindi (Elective) question paper was not leaked.The CBSE termed the alleged leaked paper that is doing the rounds on social media as 'fake'."A fake question paper of Class 12- Hindi (Elective) is being circulated on Social Media platforms like Whatsapp, YouTube etc, it is not the real one," the CBSE said in a statement.The statement comes hours after students protested outside the CBSE office in New Delhi, claiming that the Hindi paper was also leaked. The Hindi exam is scheduled to be held on April 2.Meanwhile, on March 30, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry announced that the re-examination for the Economics paper for Class 12 CBSE students would be held on 25 April and the Class 10 Maths paper, if required, would be conducted only for Delhi-NCR and Haryana in July.Two cases have been registered and a Special Investigation team by the ...
HC notices to CBSE, ICSE on fixing of school fees
The Allahabad High Court has issued notices to the CBSE and the ICSE to file their response on a PIL seeking to regulate exorbitant fees charged by self-financed private schools. The HC has sought the response from the boards within four weeks. The matter would come up for hearing after service of notices to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE). A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Abdul Moin passed the order on the PIL filed by Laik Ahmad. The PIL has demanded establishment of a Fee Regularity Commission headed by a retired high court judge to regulate fees to be fixed by private schools. It further sought directions to the two boards to use their powers to control private schools in fixing fees "as they cannot shut their eyes after grating recognition to run a school". In view of the delay in passing of a proposed legislation to be tabled in the UP Legislature to control fees charged by private schools, the ...
Kerala school complains to CBSE regarding mismatch of question
Authorities of a public school here have complained to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) regarding the mismatch of Mathematics question paper given to a Class X student on March 28. The Principal of Mount Carmel Vidyanikethan Senior Secondary School in Kanjikkuzhy, had in her complaint sent to the Regional officer CBSE, Thiruvananthapuram stated that Ameeya Saleem, who had written the examination on March 28 "got an old set of question paper (Set 1) that is summative assessment (SA) 2" for the Mathematics examination. Her teachers who came to know that the student was given SA 2 paper of the year 2016 for the examination immediately informed the exam centre at Vadavathoor in the district. ".. our teachers have personally gone to the centre to inform about the case," the school authorities said. The principal has appealed to the concerned authorities "to do something" so that the child may not be affected.
Paper leak: Plea in SC against CBSE move to conduct re-exams
A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court against the decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to cancel and re-conduct the economics exam of Class 12 held on March 26 and the mathematics paper of Class 10 on March 28 over suspicion of alleged question paper leak. The petition, filed by Shakarpur-resident Reepak Kansal, said that there was no justification whatsoever on the part of the CBSE in deciding to re-conduct the exams without holding any enquiry and finding out those responsible for such serious and intentional lapse which has resulted in extraneous financial consideration. "It is to be noted that this year, 16,38,428 students are appearing for the Class 10 and 11,86,306 students for Class 12 in the CBSE examinations. And therefore, to penalise the student community for an incident which is under investigation and without completion of that investigation/enquiry and issuing a notice on March 28, 2018 (for re-exams), affects the fundamental rights of ...
Malala visits native town in Pakistan amid high security
Nobel Peace Prize winner and young education activist Malala Yousafzai visited her home in Swat Valley on Saturday amid heavy security, more than five years after she was shot in the head there by the Taliban for her defence of female education.
Two students held for plotting to kill HCU VC to avenge Vemula's suicide: Police
A post-graduate student of Hyderabad Central University (HCU) and one of his friends were arrested for allegedly plotting to kill Vice-Chancellor P Appa Rao to avenge the suicide of Rohith Vemula, the police said today. East Godavari district Superintendent of Police (SP) Vishal Gunni said Chandan Kumar Mishra of Kolkata, an MA student in HCU, and his friend Ankala Pridhvi Raj were apprehended by the police on the basis of suspicion during a routine vehicle checking on the Bhadrachalam-Charla road, bordering Telangana. During questioning, the two revealed that they plotted to kill the HCU VC to avenge the death of Vemula, a PhD scholar of the university who had committed suicide in his hostel room in 2016, the SP said. The two were put on the operation by outlawed CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member Pulluri Prasada Rao alias Chandranna and Telangana State Committee Secretary Hari Bhushan alias Yapa Narayana, the officer added. Narayana had promised Mishra that he would be a made an .
Kerala student moves SC against CBSE re-exam decision
A Kerala student moved the Supreme Court on Saturday seeking quashing of the CBSE decision to re-conduct Class 10 mathematics examination after reports that the paper had been leaked in Delhi.
Class 12 Hindi paper circulating on social media fake: CBSE
The Class 12 Hindi (Elective) paper being circulated on the social media was fake, the CBSE said today and urged the people not to spread rumours regarding the paper. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is scheduled to hold the Class 12th Hindi (Elective) examination on April 2. ...a fake question paper of Class XII - Hindi (Elective) (enclosed) is being circulated on social media i.e. WhatsApp, YouTube etc.," the CBSE said in a release. It added that the question papers circulating on these social media platforms were either of a previous year or fake. "Hence, it is requested not to circulate the news about these fake papers, so that the students and other stakeholders are not misled, the release said. The board also enclosed the fake Hindi paper, which it said was being circulated on the social media, with its statement. Yesterday, School Education Secretary Anil Swarup had said the re-examination of the CBSE Class 12 economics paper would be held on April 25, while the .
