13 students debarred on first day of II PU examinations

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March 16, 2012

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Bangalore, March 16: The second pre-university examination commenced at 923 centres across the State on Thursday, with nearly 3.5 lakh students appearing for the history and computer science papers on the first day.

all set: A student prays before writing the examination at a centre in Hubli on Thursday. KPNThough strict security measures were in force, it did not deter students from attempting to copy. At least, 13 students had to face ignominy when they were caught copying and subsequently debarred, the Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) said.

Bijapur district accounted for three debarments. Two students each were debarred in Belgaum, Kolar, and Dharwad districts. One student each was debarred in Bagalkot, Gulbarga, Hassan, and Chikballapur districts.

Most students caught copying were using chits as mobile phones are banned in the examination hall. They have been debarred for one to two attempts, based on the severity of the “offence”.

According to a DPUE official, a student will be debarred for one attempt even if he/she has not noted down answers from the chits he or she is carrying. Such students will be debarred from writing the upcoming supplementary examination. Students who note down answers from their chits will be debarred for two attempts. They cannot appear for the main exam in 2013 also.

The punishment may be increased if a student indulges in criminal activity such as manhandling the invigilator, etc. In such cases, he/she may be debarred for three years or six attempts.

The DPUE refused to divulge details of the debarred students, stressing “we do not look into individual cases”. These cases, the DPUE said, were handled at the district level.

Caste column erased

The caste column mentioned in students’ hall tickets was erased with a whitener by invigilators before answersheets were distributed, as per a direction of the DPUE.

The mention of a student’s caste in his/her hall ticket had created a furore after a few students’ organisations objected to the practice. They had argued that mentioning a student’s caste could influence invigilators who may ignore an instance of malpractice if a student from their caste is involved.

The DPUE, however, expressed its inability to recall the hall tickets as they had already been distributed. It later said that the mention of caste in hall tickets would be whitened out.

‘Easy but lengthy’

Students found both the history and computer science papers easy. History paper, however, was lengthy and many struggled to finish it. Sheetal Surendra, a student of Mount Carmel PU College, said that she could not finish the paper. “The paper was very lengthy. I really had to rush through in the last 15 minutes,” she said.

Sonal Tilesara, also from the same college, found the history paper lengthy but managed to finish it. Students at St Joseph’s PU College described the invigilation as “very strict”.


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May 28,2020

Hyderabad, MAY 28: A three-year-old boy who accidentally fell into a newly drilled open borewell in Telangana's Medak district was found dead in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

The kid's body was retrieved at around 4 am after a nearly 10 hours' long rescue operation involving different agencies, they said.

"He died a while before we evacuated him, most likely due to the mud that covered him from the top sealing off necessary oxygen supply, " Medak District Superintendent of Police Chandana Deepti told PTI.

The boy had accidentally slipped into the 120- feet borewell at around 5 pm on Wednesday in an agricultural field located in Papannapet mandal of the district when he was walking with his grandfather and father, police earlier said.

As part of rescue efforts, a parallel trench was dug along the borewell hole with the help of earth excavating machines and oxygen was supplied into it, but the efforts went in vain as the boy's body was found stuck at a depth of around 25 feet, the police said.

Apart from the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were also involved in the rescue operation.

The borewell into which the child fell was one among the three dug by the family since Tuesday night to try and find water for their fields. But none of them yielded any water, police had said.

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May 12,2020

May 12: A Madhya Pradesh Police sub-inspector was fined Rs 5,000 after he performed a daredevil act of balancing himself on two moving cars, copying the famous stunt from Ajay Devgn-starrer 'Singham'.

Manoj Yadav, the in-charge of Narsinghgarh police post in Damoh district, was also warned against any such daredevilry in future, police sources said on Monday.

Sporting shades as the hero of the cop drama film and wearing his police uniform, Yadav got the entire episode video-graphed, they said.

As the video of the stunt went viral on social media, senior police officials took serious note of it as it will send wrong signals to youngsters, the sources said.

Inspector General, Sagar range, Anil Sharma directed Damoh Superintendent of Police Hemant Chauhan to probe the matter.

After an investigation, Chauhan imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the sub-inspector and warned him not to repeat such mistakes.

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