After two paper leakages last year, the 2017 second PU examination began all over the State this morning amidst unprecedented security measures and a slew of examination reforms. The Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) had put in place fool-proof and poll-like measures to prevent a repeat of the 2016 fiasco. The exam is being held…
Minister Tanveer Sait warns lecturers who have threatened to boycott PU evaluation The Department of PU Education and the State Government have taken adequate security measures to prevent malpractices in the Second PU examinations. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait told reporters in Bengaluru yesterday that starting this year, pre university college lecturers boycotting…
The battle lines for Nanjangud and Gundlupet Assembly byelections have been drawn with the Election Commission of India (ECI) notifying the much-awaited poll schedule for the two Assembly segments this afternoon. According to the schedule, polling for the two Assembly seats will be held on Apr. 9. The filing of nominations will begin on Mar….
The three-day national-level techno-cultural festival ‘techNIEks-2017′ organised by National Institute of Engineering (NIE) and its Students’ Association commenced this morning at the Diamond Jubilee Indoor Sports Complex at NIE premises on Manandavadi Road here. Students from about 40 engineering colleges in the State are participating in the event featuring innovative competitions like shadow play, visual…
MLC Srikantegowda condemned Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Tanveer Sait for threatening to file cases against lecturers on boycotting the II PUC answer scripts evaluation. Addressing press persons at Pathrakarthara Bhavan this morning, he said that it was shameful on the part of the Minister to threaten the lecturers of 6 months imprisonment. …
In a tragic incident, a city jeweller was killed when the motorcycle he was riding rammed into the road median near Nanjangud town this morning. Shankar Choudhury (30), owner of Mahalakshmi Jewellers in Vidyaranyapuram, is the deceased. A resident of Basaveshwara Road in city, he is survived by his wife and two kids. Shankar was…
Three children died and two others are in critical condition due to food poisoning at a school hostel in Chikkanayakanahalli in Tumakuru this morning. The Vidyavaridhi International School, where the children were studying, reportedly belongs to former BJP MLA K.S. Kiran Kumar. According to reports, the Police have taken Kiran Kumar into custody. The deceased…
Humiliation after theft case drives them to take the extreme step Fearing social stigma and alleged insults from friends and relatives, a woman, who was accused of stealing gold jewellery, and her husband entered into a suicide pact in the wee hours of today. While the husband died while being shifted to the K.R. Hospital,…
In yet another case of online booking cheating, the diligence of a security guard saved him from being cheated of thousands of rupees, after he ordered online an expensive mobile phone with an e-commerce company. Jayakumar, a security guard at RMP quarters in Yelwal, who stayed along with his family at the quarters, booked a…
City industrialist and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Council General Secretary Suresh Kumar Jain (in pic.) has been nominated as a member of the newly-formed High-level Mahamastakabisheka Mahotsava Committee. The Committee will hold discussions on organising Mahamastakabisheka at Shravanabelagola in Feb. 2018. This event is held once in 12 years. The Committee headed by Chief…
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