Education

10 Oct

Schools in UP Shut Today Due To Heavy Rain

Priyanka BhowmickBreaking News, Education, weatherindia, Rain, Uttar Pradesh, Weather

Schools for all children up to class 12 will remain closed on Sunday as per the district administration's order. Due to heavy rains forecast warning by the Meteorological Department on Monday in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Several districts of Uttar Pradesh declared holidays in all schools today. Traffic police warned motorists to be careful while driving, especially under flyovers, as many roads were flooded. Authorities in a dozen districts, including Lucknow, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Aligarh, Meerut and Ghaziabad, have ordered the closure of schools today in view of heavy rains. Officials said, in Aligarh, all schools up to Class 12…

08 Oct

WBCHSE introduces with new pattern of HS Exam

Priyanka BhowmickEducation, West BengalExam, HS Exam, india, WBCHSE, West Bengal

The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has announced that for the Class 12 or Higher Secondary Board Examination 2023, instead of separate papers for Part A and B, there will be only one combined paper. Therefore, it is not necessary to connect both the parts together at the end of the test as is done earlier. The board informed that all objective and subjective questions will appear in one question paper. WBCHSE said that the previous question papers were too complicated. But this time the question paper will be more easy.Chiranjeev Bhattacharya, West Bengal Higher Secondary Education…

19 Sep

Update: NEET UG counseling 2022 is to begin on 25th SEPTEMBER.

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The National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the result of National Eligibility Humor Entrance Test-Collegian (NEET-UG) on Gregorian calendar month 07, 2022. Registered NEET daters can transfer NEET UG Result 2022 by visiting the official website of neet.nta.nic.in. Because the result of NEET UG 2022 has been declared, Collegian medical aspirants are currently measuring square in anticipation of the start of the content as per bound media reports NEET UG content may start from twenty fifth Gregorian calendar month. Additionally, to ensure that the NEET subject procedure is not delayed henceforth, the NMC has decided to renew the permission of…

01 Sep

CM Arvind Kejriwal launches virtual school for students across the country

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday launched a virtual faculty and said college students from across the country would be eligible for admission. Delhi Model Virtual School (DMVS) application process started on Wednesday. The school is for classes 9-12. "Admission to the education platform will be open to students from all over India and will also be organized through professionals for entrance exams like NEET, CUET and JEE along with skill-based training," Kejriwal said in an online media release Summary. The Chief Minister said that the country's first virtual college would prove to be a milestone in the education…

31 Aug

‘Lathi-charge on BPSC aspirants unacceptable’: BJP attacks Nitish Kumar govt for ‘anti-students’ stance

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On Wednesday (August 31) condemning the lathi-charge on Bihar Public Service Commission candidates, Minister of State for Home affair Nithyananda Rai demanded action against irresponsible officials. Speaking to ANI, Nithyananda Rai accused the newly formed alliance authorities of exerting pressure on BPSC candidates."The JDU-RJD authorities had promised to provide 20 lakh jobs to the youth of Bihar but instead of keeping their word, Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav are using force on BPSC students who are only concerned about their right to free and fair exams," the minister said. Notably, there have been clashes between BPSC candidates and police personnel…

30 Aug

UGC to launch ‘e – Samadhan’ portal to resolve grievances of students, staff

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Higher schooling area regulator University Grants Commission (UGC) will now monitor and get to the bottom of all grievances of college students and group of workers in varsities via a centralised portal referred to as e-Samadhan, which will be made operational next week, an respectable said. “Resolution of grievances of institutional entities has been a top priority of constant fees and in a step towards that, UGC has brought e-solutions-online grievance registration and monitoring system which is a digital platform to identify stakeholders. Follow up for complaints, feedback or questions,” said reliable. This platform ensures transparency, prevents unfair practices in…

29 Aug

JMI University cancels activist Safoora Zargar’s admission citing ‘unsatisfactory’ progress in thesis work

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Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has cancelled the admission of scholar and activist Safoora Zargar, who got arrested in a 2020 riots case, due to "unsatisfactory" development in her thesis work. Zargar, who had enrolled with the Department of Sociology in the built-in MPhil/PhD programme, said the cancellation "breaks my coronary heart however no longer my spirit". In a notification dated August 26, workplace of the dean, Faculty of Social Science, said she did no longer submit her M.Phil dissertation within the most stipulated time of five semesters. "The registration of Safoora Zargar from M.Phil./Ph.D. (Sociology) stands cancelled w.e.f. 22…

22 Aug

Clashes In JNU, BJP-Linked Group Say Students Attacked By Security Guards Over Scholarship

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A group of college students of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University today claimed that they were attacked by security guards deployed by the institute when they peacefully disrupted the release of scholarship money which they insisted had been withheld for over two years. Half a dozen college students were reportedly injured in clashes between BJP-affiliated student recruiters Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, or ABVP, and campus security guards. ABVP JNU president Rohit Kumar said the guards abused and misbehaved with the students. “The condition of this department is such that now only 4 staff are left where earlier there was 17 staff.…

22 Aug

On camera, Patna bureaucrat thrashes protesting job aspirant holding national flag

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Hundreds of aspirants for teachers' posts protested the prolongation of their recruitment by baton-charging the police in Bihar's capital Patna on Monday. A video of the protest has gone viral, showing a bureaucrat beating a protester to the ground. Once there was a protest at the Dak Bangla intersection in Patna. In the video, the official, identified as KK Singh, Additional District Magistrate of Patna, can be seen dragging the man and beating him as he crouches on the floor and holds the national flag in his hand. The flag was later confiscated by the police. A large number of…

21 Aug

Didn’t ask teacher to quit over swimsuit pics, says VC of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s University

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Amid on line campaigns aiding a former assistant professor of St Xavier's University, who claimed she used to be pressured to end her job over some of her Instagram images in a swimsuit, its VC Father Felix Raj has rebuffed the allegation and said it was "humiliating to assume" the group would do so. In a statement, Raj stated the university "believes in retaining and retaining the dignity and honour of its teachers, staff members, college students and others connected with it".The 31-year-old PhD holder, who had joined the organization in Rajarhat in August 2021, had stated she was accused…