UP deploys STF, CCTV camera surveillance for copy-free board exams

The Uttar Pradesh government has made foolproof arrangements, including setting up of control rooms for live monitoring of exam centres, to ensure that there are no cheating incidents during this......

UP Board's English paper cancelled at 2 centres after mass cheating

The Uttar Pradesh Board’s class 10 English examination has been cancelled at two centres in Mathura district due to ‘mass cheating’, a senior official said. District Inspector of......

Bihar topper scam: Ex-Board chairman, wife arrested

Bihar School Examination Board ex-chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh, the alleged mastermind of the toppers scam in the Bihar intermediate examination, and his former Janata Dal-United MLA wife Usha......

Will CCTV prevent cheating in exams?

'The copying mafia is very powerful. We need to use technology to fight them.' The Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education has decided to install surveillance cameras at all......

Indian crude oil basket hits 10-yr high; petrol, diesel prices unchanged

The basket of crude oil that India buys has hit a decade high of $121 per barrel, but retail selling prices of petrol and diesel continue to remain frozen. Photograph: Richard Carson/Reuters The......

Manufacturing sector hits a virtual standstill

Factories are shutting down owing to a shortage of labour and raw materials, and a lack of logistical support amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic.  IMAGE:......

The watchdog who barks and bites

Last Saturday, capital market watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India barredSamir Arora, the flamboyant Singapore-based fund manager of Alliance Capital Mutual Fund and the......

Haryana's mission to become an investment hotspot

Despite the Jat agitation and investor scepticism, the state is trying hard to improve ease of doing business by several notches. The seventh of a 11-part series looks at the state of affairs in......