The National Talent Search Examination (NTSE), which is conducted to select Class X students for scholarship till they complete higher studies, has been postponed in view of the Covid-19 outbreak.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has issued a notice to postpone stage-II of the test, which was supposed to be held on June 13. Stage-I of the exam is conducted at the state level while stage-II is held at the national level.
The NCERT has a state-wise quota system while allowing the stage-I qualified students. The stage-I exam has already been held.
Students qualifying in stage-II get Rs 1,250 per month in Classes XI and XII and Rs 2,000 at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Is This the End of the Road for the CPI(M) in Bengal?
Many grassroots CPI(M) workers held its leaders responsible for the broken relationship between the top party leadership and its cadres.
Activists of CPI (M) stage a protest rally against hike in electricity bills, in Kolkata. Photo: PTI/Ashok Bhaumik
Politics14/May/2021
Kolkata: May 2, 2021 turned out to be a historic day for the Left parties for two reasons. First, by winning the assembly election in Kerala, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) broke a long cycle of one-term government in the state which was continuing since 1977. Second, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front failed to win even a single seat in the West Bengal assembly election. In a first since independence, there wonât be a Left representative in the Bengal state assembly.Â
Widow of slain RMPI leader says her win is a verdict against political violence
Some time in a wet June nine years ago when Kerala was keenly engrossed in the Neyyattinkara Assembly bypoll in Thiruvananthapuram, veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M] leader V.S. Achuthanandan made a surprise visit to the house of K.K. Rema, widow of the slain Revolutionary Marxist party of India (RMPI) founder-leader T.P. Chandrasekharan, raising the political ombrometer during the monsoons in the State.
The incident not only sent shock waves among the CPI (M) leadership, the image of Ms. Rema crying on the shoulders of the then Leader of the Opposition Achuthanandan still remains etched in the political memory of Kerala.
Balussery sends Sachin Dev to Assembly
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In LDF fortress, the young candidate wins by whopping margin of 21,132 votes
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In LDF fortress, the young candidate wins by whopping margin of 21,132 votes K.M. Sachin Dev of the Left Democratic Front (LDF), one of the youngest candidates in the fray in the 2021 Assembly election, has retained Balussery, with a whopping margin of 20,372 votes. The State secretary of the Students’ Federation of India scored 91,839 votes of the total 1,82,253 polled in the constituency while his nearest opponent Dharmajan Bolgatty of the Indian National Congress scored 71,467 votes. Libin Bhaskar, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, scored 16,490 votes.
Kerala Assembly elections 2021 | Key winners and losers
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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister Shailaja secure landslide victories while E. Sreedharan and Suresh Gopi fade away despite showing promise.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan greets party supporters during an election campaign ahead of Kerala Assembly Polls, in Thiruvananthapuram, Friday, March 26, 2021. File
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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Health Minister Shailaja secure landslide victories while E. Sreedharan and Suresh Gopi fade away despite showing promise.
The ruling Left Democratic Front, with a lead in 99 of 140 seats, has emerged as a decisive winner of 2021 Assembly elections. Congress-led United Democratic Front, which harboured ambitions of forming the government this round, was sidelined to a mere 41 seats, while BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has lost the one seat they had won in 2016 electi