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Class XII economics re-exam on April 25

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March 31, 2018

New Delhi, Mar 31: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct re-examinations for Class XII economics paper all over the country on April 25.

The re-examination, if any, for Class X mathematics paper, will not be held across the country.

"If at all re-examinations for the Class X mathematics paper has to be held, it will be done only for the National Capital Region of Delhi and Haryana in July. Re-examination for the Class X paper will not be held in the rest of the states," Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry's school education department secretary Anil Swarup told reporters in Delhi on Friday.

A final decision on whether re-examination should be held or not even for Haryana and the National Capital Region will be taken "in fifteen days" he said.

"The matter is being investigated at various levels including by the Delhi police. We will examine all the facts that come out during the investigations and take our decision accordingly," he said. The CBSE will also not conduct re-examination for the two papers for students appearing in their Class X and Class XII board examinations abroad, he also clarified. Swarup announced the board's decision in the presence of CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal as anxiety among parents and students over the issue continued across the country.

Students and parents have also been demanding re-examination for only those regions where the papers were leaked. Leaders of various political parties including Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Rajya Sabha member Chandrasekhar Reddy also echoed the demands of the students and parents.

The board's decision is primarily based on the facts that have emerged during investigations by Delhi police, a group of senior officials of the ministry and the CBSE, Swarup said.

"Some stupid fellow has played a dirty trick. A substantial number of questions of mathematics paper matched with the original paper. That's why we cancelled the examinations held for this paper (on March 28)," he said.

However, when the board consulted the states to verify the leakage of mathematics paper, most of the them said there was no such thing there.

"So we decided not to hold re-exam for mathematics paper for students across the country and limit it only to the National Capital Region of Delhi and Haryana, if at all we have to do so," Swarup clarified.

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March 7,2020

Mar 7: Two Malayalam news channels, Asianet News and Media One, which were banned by the information and broadcasting ministry for their coverage of the recent violence in Delhi on Friday evening, were allowed to resume telecasting on Saturday morning.

While Asianet News appeared to have begun operations around 7am on Saturday, Media One was screening content by 9.30am.

The ministry of information and broadcasting had imposed a 48-hour ban on Asianet News and Media One for their coverage of the Delhi violence for 48 hours from 7.30pm on Friday. Both Asianet News and Media One were barred under Rule 6(1 c) and Rule 6(1e) of the Cable Television Networks Act, 1994.

The ministry of information and broadcasting alleged Asianet News and Media One were "biased" and critical of the RSS and Delhi Police.

The ban on Asianet News and Media One triggered a torrent of criticism of the move. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor asked how "Malayalam channels inflame communal passions in Delhi?" and alleged some English news channels were continuing "their brazen distortions" with impunity.

In a statement issued on Friday after the ban, Media One termed the move "unfortunate and condemnable" and called it a "blatant attack against free and fair reporting". Media One called it "an order to stop free and fair journalism".

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February 14,2020

Feb 14: R K Pachauri, a former chief of The Energy and Resources Institute, passed away on Thursday after a prolonged cardiac ailment, TERI Director General Ajay Mathur said.

He was 79.

"It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing away of R K Pachauri, the founder Director of TERI. The entire TERI family stands with the family of Dr Pachauri in this hour of grief," Mathur said in a statement issued by the TERI.

"TERI is what it is because of Dr Pachauri's untiring perseverance. He played a pivotal role in growing this institution, and making it a premier global organisation in the sustainability space," said Mathur, who succeeded Pachauri at TERI in 2015. Pachauri was admitted to Escorts Heart Institute in the national capital where he underwent open heart surgery and was put on life support on Tuesday, sources said.

In the statement issued by TERI, its Chairman Nitin Desai hailed Pachauri's contribution to global sustainable development as "unparalleled".

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March 29,2020

New Delhi, Mar 29: The Centre on Sunday asked state governments and Union Territory administrations to effectively seal state and district borders to stop movements of migrant workers during lockdown, officials said.

During a video conference with Chief Secretaries and DGPs, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla asked them to ensure that there is no movement of people across cities or on highways as the lockdown continues.

"There has been movement of migrant workers in some parts of the country. Directions were issued that district and state borders should be effectively sealed," a government official said.

States were directed to ensure there is no movement of people across cities or on highways.

Only movement of goods should be allowed.

District Magistrates and SPs should be made personally responsible for implementation of these directions, the official said.

Adequate arrangements for food and shelter of poor and needy people including migrant labourers be made at the place of their work, the official said.

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