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| Private schools perform, Govt counterparts searching sarkari excuses | | | |
MUNISH GUPTA
Jammu may 28: Continuing with dismal show of performance, the Government schools once again failed to catch up their private counterparts in the recently declared results of two classes i.e. the Higher Secondary Part-II and Matriculation Examination both exanimations conducted by State Board of School Education (BOSE).
According to BOSE figures, out of the total 43 top-ten positions in three streams viz. Arts, Science and Commerce of senior secondary school examination, Government institutions managed to capture 13 which is probably the only high point in their performance. The private schools continued with their good show by grabbing 30 more than double of their ‘sarkari’ counterparts. Even, the pass percentage in Government schools remained below the 30 per cent mark whereas in private schools it was double the mark.
According to a BOSE official, the performance of Government schools was very much like the previous years and there’s no marked difference but, the result of private schools was steadily improving with each passing year.
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| UPA Cabinet goes full as 59 new faces inducted | | Three Tier: Farooq, two more former CMs among 14 new Cabinet Ministers; 7 MoS (Ind) 39 MoS | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, May 28: The Union Council of Ministers was expanded with the induction of 59 ministers including 3 former chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Farooq Abdullah and Virbhadra Singh at the Cabinet level.
In all, 14 cabinet ministers, including DMK nominees MK Alagiri, Dayanidhi Maran and A Raja, and Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge were sworn in by President Pratibha Patil, six days after Prime Minister and 19 others took oath in the first installment.
Seven Ministers of State with Independent Charge, and 38 Ministers of State were also sworn in at a ceremony in the Rashtrapati Bhawan attended among others by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congr... | |
| | | | 16 Vaishnodevi pilgrims hospitalised for food poisoning | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 28: Atleast 16 people, were hospitalised for suspected food poisoning in Katra of Reasi district, official sources said
Sources said that the Sixteen members of three families, all from Maharashtra, who were after paying obeisance at Vaishnodevi shrine, had their dinner at a hotel last night complained of stomach pain followed by vomiting while on their way to Shiv Khori shrine.
Further sources said that the all the sixteen members of the three families were later hospitalized. Sources however added that the condition of a nine-year-old girl Ruchi is critical others are stable.
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| | | | Talent' considered in deciding Cabinet: PM, Sonia | | | | AGENCIES
New Delhi, May 28: Rejecting suggestions that UP has been given inadequate representation in the Cabinet, PM and Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said factors like talent have played a crucial role in formation of the Council of Ministers.
Prime Minister said his new Council of Ministers is a "mixture of experience and youthful energy". "There are several factors like availability of talent and other considerations that played the role," he told reporters when asked why Uttar Pradesh, where the party improved its tally from 10 to 21 seats, was not adequately represented in the Cabinet.
The Prime Minister was speaking at Rashtrapati Bhavan after swearing in of 59 ministers. The Cabinet h... | |
| | | | All in Family: Glory for Abdullahs-Pilots | | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI: It was all in the family for the Abdullah/Pilot clan with father-in-law and National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah being sworn in Abdullah-Pilot family as cabinet minister and son-in-law Sachin Pilot of the Congress becoming minister of state.
The flamboyant Abdullah, 72, with a traditional Kashmiri karakul cap and dressed in a white Nehru jacket with a red rose pinned in his lapel and a bright pink handkerchief peeping out from the breast pocket was sworn in first.
An hour later, his 32-year-old son-in-law Sachin Pilot, married to Abdullah's daughter Sara, with a bright red Rajasthani turban and his usual kurta-pyjama followed suit and took oath as minister of s... | |
| | | | First Cabinet meeting to be held on Saturday | | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, May 28 : The first meeting of the expanded Council of Ministers of the Manmohan Singh Government will be held on Saturday. As per the letters received by various Cabinet Ministers, the meeting will be held at 1130 hrs in the Prime Minister's office. The Prime Minister expanded his 20-member Cabinet to 79 by inducting 59 more Ministers today.
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| | | | Vaishno Devi Pilgrimage Plummets | | | | SANDEEP BHAT
Jammu, May 28: The recent disturbance in neighbouring state of Punjab and forest fire in Trikuta hills along the track of holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi gave set back to yatra. As per source devotees have cancelled their railway tickets coming from various part of the country.
Devotees coming from the state become panicky due to wide-spread violence in Punjab damaging public and private property which including burning of trans and busses. To reach the holy cave one has to pass through Punjab but due to circumstances, beyond their control people changed their programme and cancelled the tickets etc.
As per reports from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, the influx ... | |
| | | | Azad is India’s new Health Minister, Sibal gets HRD, Ambika I&B, Moily Law, Anand Commerce and Farooq Renewable Energy | | MINISTERS GET CHARGE | | | AGENICES
New Delhi, May 28: Anand Sharma was on Thursday night made the new Commerce and Industry Minister as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expanded his Council of Ministers inducting 59 more and giving portfolios of HRD to Kapil Sibal, Law to Veerappa Moily and Road Transport and Highways to Kamal Nath.
While eight of the Cabinet Ministers retained the portfolios they had in the previous UPA government, Singh sprang surprises by giving Shipping to G K Vasan, Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises to Vilasrao Deshmukh and steel to Virbhadra Singh.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has been given Health and Family Welfare while Farooq Abdullah got New and Renewable... | |
| | | | Realty Check: No trusted testing for Jammu’s Rs 350 Cr drug market | | | | SALMAN NIZAMI
JAMMU MAY 28: Jammu may be a market absorbing drugs worth more than 350 crore per annum, it may be playing host to more than 8,000 wholesale and retail drug shops and it may have witnessed an immense increase in drug consumption over the last more than a decade of turmoil- However the Drug control department in Jammu continues to function in a primitive style that too without any adequate technical staff, field staff and above all the important equipments for drug testing. So, who knows how many sub-standard drugs must be circulating in the market for the consumption of the hapless masses.
Early Times has reliably learnt through the sources in department that the equipments... | |
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