Mysuru: Former Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) and University of Mysore, Prof. K.S. Rangappa said, “I am deeply pained by the plight of lakhs of students of KSOU who are in doldrums today. I have said this many times in the past and I am saying it again. I am ready to face…
Mysuru: The fake marks card racket at KSOU is acquiring gargantuan proportions with each passing day. After KSOU Co-ordinator in Hubballi Manjunath Kulkarni and Health Department official Mallanna were arrested on Saturday last, KSOU Assistant Registrar (Evaluation) Siddaraju was suspended. And, added to this, an order has been passed to dismiss temporary employee Shivanna. As…
Mysuru: The Jayalakshmipuram Police have arrested two more persons in the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) fake marks card racket case. One is KSOU Co-ordinator in Hubballi Manjunath Kulkarni and the other is the Health Department official Mallanna, who is said to have got the job by giving fake marks card. Inspector Ravindra arrested both…
Mysuru: The report of Justice K. Bhakthavatsala shows that students who were admitted to MPhil, PhD, BE, BTech, MTech, Diploma in Engineering and other technical professional programmes of the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) are facing severe problems since the degrees are not recognised. Despite warnings from the Distance Education Council way back in 2011,…
Mysuru: KSOU has constituted a 12-member teachers’ committee to look into admission, marks card printing, valuation, coding and decoding, custodians of confidential papers and convocation. In an agreement with a Mumbai-based company IEM the work was entrusted to them in 2013. However, nearly 60,000 to 70,000 marks cards printed by them has been cancelled as…
Mysuru: Even as the KSOU fake marks card racket is making news, the aggrieved students of the same institution are up in arms threatening to launch an agitation if the recognition to the University is not restored immediately. It may be recalled that the recognition to the KSOU had been withdrawn since the last four…
Mysuru: The Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) fake marks card racket is taking a new turn every day. The CCB Police, who are investigating the racket, took three members of the KSOU Non-Teaching Staff Association into custody yesterday. Suspecting that they are also involved in the degree and post-graduate degrees fake marks cards case, the…
Mysuru: The rot in the fake marks card racket in the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) is getting deeper and murkier, as more and more skeletons tumble out. With the City Crime Branch (CCB) successfully nabbing four more persons, including a temporary employee of KSOU, some of the facts are coming to light. And,…
Mysuru: The City Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths arrested four more accused allegedly involved in fake marks card racket. The accused have been identified as Prajwal, a temporary employee of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) and Kishan, both residents of Gokulam, Sagar, resident of Kolar and Menon, a resident of Mahadevapura in Mysuru. With this, the…
Mysuru: The City Crime Branch (CCB) Police have busted a fake marks card racket. This incident came to light with the arrest of a woman from whom the Police recovered hundreds of fake marks cards. The arrested is Yashaswini, 45, resident of Gokulam. Including the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), fake marks cards of several…
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