New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday continued his attack on the Union Education Ministry and the CBSE over Class 12 evaluation discrepancies by posting on social media a video featuring Vedant and other students who faced problems in seeking copies of their answer booklets. “A revealing chat with my fellow ‘anti-national Soros agents.’ Vedant and his friends are brilliant, brave young Indians who asked CBSE and the Modi government simple questi…
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New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday chaired a high-level review meeting at the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) headquarters in New Delhi to review issues related to the evaluation and post-result processes of Class 12 examinations. During the meeting, the Minister directed officials to take all necessary measures to resolve the issues faced by students in a timely, transparent, and amicable manner, according to a statement from the Ministr…
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Student organisation Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS) on Thursday condemned what it described as technical failures and evaluation-related discrepancies in the On-Screen Marking (OSM) evaluation system introduced by the CBSE this year.In a statement issued by KYS Delhi State Committee Member Bhim Kumar, the organisation demanded an independent and transparent investigation into the CBSE’s evaluation crisis.Meanwhile, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan chaired a h…
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Amid the controversy surrounding the CBSE’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday assured that strict action would be taken if any deliberate negligence or wrongdoing was found in the process. He also criticised the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress leader was acting out of frustration following repeated electoral defeats. Speaking to reporters in Delhi, Pradhan said the Central Bo…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting the “discrepancies” arising from the On-Screen Marking (OSM) introduced by the CBSE for Class 10 and 12, and demanding a one-time redressal for the impacted students. “A government that cannot manage a simple secondary education exam, let alone cause the disastrous NEET fiasco, has no right to make tall claims of being a ‘Vishwaguru’,” said Venugopal in a …
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday spoke with the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in view of the payment-related issues being faced by students during the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) post-result and re-evaluation process and both agreed to involve State Bank of India (SBI) and three other Public Sector Banks (PSBs) to weed out glitches. During the discussion, it was decided that four PSBs — SBI, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank an…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has decided to rope in professors and technical experts from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and IIT Kanpur to help the CBSE ensure a glitch-free re-evaluation process, an official said on Sunday. Pradhan’s direction to involve IIT experts comes in the backdrop of concerns raised by students and parents regarding the CBSE post-result services portal which has allegedly crashed or remained inaccessible for filing appli…
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) India’s apex research funding body, the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), has selected ten Convergence Research Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to promote multidisciplinary research for deep integration of scientific knowledge within social sciences and the humanities, an official statement said on Wednesday.The initiative seeks to establish pioneering centres that bring together social sciences, humanities, science, and technology to address complex societal …
Thiruvananthapuram, May 18 (IANS) Union Health Secretary, Punya Salila Srivastava, on Monday released a special Rs 60 commemorative coin to mark the diamond jubilee celebrations of HLL Lifecare Limited, hailing the public sector healthcare giant as one of the country’s most dependable institutions in times of national crisis and healthcare emergencies.The commemorative coin, issued by the Government of India, was unveiled during the Diamond Jubilee valedictory function held in Thiruvananthapur…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Hyundai Motor Group on Friday marked 30 years of operations in India and announced expansion of its community initiatives such as healthcare, education, cultural and environmental programs across the country.The Group said it will scale activities delivered by its seven affiliated companies and the Happy Move program to broaden private‑sector exchanges between India and South Korea, the company said in a release.It announced that Hyundai Mobis is implementing pond an…