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NEW DELHI: Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday defended CBSE‘s newly introduced ‘On-Screen Marking (OSM)’ system as a “progressive instrument” aimed at bringing greater transparency and accountability to the evaluation process, even as he took responsibility for glitches in the evaluation mechanism that have left students and parents worried.“I take responsibility. It will be fixed,…
NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has sought a detailed report from Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) after widespread complaints from students and parents over technical glitches during the post-result re-evaluation process, with the Centre bringing in experts from IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur and roping in four public sector banks to stabilise the system…
NEW DELHI: The 21st Livestock Census report, which was expected to be made public late last year, is likely to be released after June, as technical glitches in data compilation and validation have delayed its finalisation.An official said data validation was in process. “This is expected to be completed by June. The report can be…
Amazon is facing a major outage in the UK. Thousands of users of the e-commerce platform have reported facing issues, including payment failures, app glitches, and error messages while trying to complete purchases. According to outage-tracking website Down Detector, more than 2,000 complaints were recorded at the time of writing, with reports rising sharply. The…
GURGAON: One among many LED lights malfunctioned, angering a groom and his associates so much that one of them shot dead 23-year-old Barkat, the electrician responsible for arrangements at the wedding venue in Pataudi, on Thursday night.Police said the groom, Amandeep, had a heated argument with Barkat when he noticed the lighting imperfection. As the…
CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, criticising the “procedural violations” and “administrative lapses” in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which is currently under way in the poll-bound state.Mamata Banerjee called the exercise “unplanned, arbitrary and…
Taxpayers continue to struggle with the ITR submission process due to technical difficulties on the Income Tax department’s official portal. (AI image) ITR filing FY 2024-25 due day has been extended to today, that is September 16, 2025, but taxpayers are complaining of still facing issues with the income tax e-filing portal.Following the Finance Ministry’s…
