Chennai, June 6 (IANS) Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri attended the degree distribution programme for international students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and encouraged graduates to utilise their knowledge and expertise to address opportunities and challenges facing the Global South in an era of rapid technological change.IIT Madras organised its Degree Distribution Programme for international students on Friday, celebrating the academic accomplishments of graduates from a r…
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New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) The Delhi Police on Friday registered an FIR following a complaint by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) over a series of coordinated cyberattacks targeting its post-result services portal.The complaint was filed with the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) Unit of Delhi Police, flagging multiple sophisticated attempts to disrupt the Board’s Post-Result Services Portal, a key platform used by students nationwide for verification and re-evalua…
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has announced the results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2026, bringing an end to days of anticipation for engineering aspirants across the country. Shubham Kumar from the IIT Delhi zone emerged as the overall topper, while Arohi Deshpande secured the highest rank among female candidates. Shubham Kumar secured the top position in the Common Rank List (CRL), scoring 330 out of 360 marks.More than 56,000 st…
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…
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…