Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has released an important notice regarding announcement of the new dates for SSC CHSL, junior engineer and SSC Stenographer grade C and D exams.
SSC has further postponed the announcement of revised dates for various exams including SSC CHSL 2019 tier 1, SSC JE and SSC Stenographer grade C and D and skill test for CHSL 2018 exam. SSC was to announce the revised dates for these exams after assessing the situation after May 3. However after the extension of lockdown till May 31, SSC has notified that a decision on the revised dates of these exams will be taken after accessing the situation on June 1.
The Commission will release the revised calendar if the situation is found to be better. Candidates are advised to visit the official website at ssc.nic.in for any updates.
“The Staff Selection Commission has reviewed the situation arising out of the Corona Virus Pandemic on 21.05.2020. It has been noted that the Government has extended the lockdown in the country till 31.05.2020. Keeping in view the above and in continuation to the information provided vide its Notices dated 19/03/2020, 16/04/2020, 24/04/2020 and 04.05.2020, the Commission has decided that the situation will be reviewed on 01.06.2020 before taking a decision regarding announcements of schedules of the examinations of the Commission. The candidates are advised to visit the website of the Commission at regular intervals for updates,” reads the notice.
SSC CHSL Tier 1 exam was originally scheduled to be conducted from March 16 to 27. SSC Junior Engineer exam was scheduled from March 30 to April 2. SSC Stenographer exam was to be held from May 5 to 7.
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: May 22, 2020 11:07:12 am
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Shaktikanta Das, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Friday, extended the moratorium on loan repayments by three more months in view of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Addressing his third presser, the central bank governor also announced a 40 basis points (bps) cut to both the repo and reverse repo rates. the repo rate stands reduced at 4 per cent, while the reverse repo rate now stands at 3.35 per cent, Das said during his address.
Moratorium on term loans available till May 31, now extended by another three months till August 2020 @IndianExpress
According to sources, several banks, including Axis Bank, and NBFCs had demanded a loan restructuring scheme as moratorium alone is not sufficient to come out of the Covid crisis.
As part of its contingency plan in the wake of the coronaviruspandemic, the RBI, on March 27, had announced a three-month moratorium (March 1 to May 31) on loan and card repayments and slashed its main policy rate — Repo rate by 75 basis points and cash reserve ratio (CRR) of banks by 100 basis points to stabilize the financial markets and reduce the pain on borrowers hit by Covid-19pandemic.
Bihar Board 10th result 2020 is expected to be declared in the afternoon on Friday. Lakhs of students have been waiting for the BSEB 10th results. According to media reports, the BSEB matric result is likely to be declared on Friday at 1 pm. However, there is no official confirmation regarding this.
Over 15 lakh students have appeared for the BSEB 10th exam this year. Students have been waiting for their results for the last one week but the Bihar Board has not given any result declaration date till now. Earlier, BSEB chairman Anand Kishor had told HT that the board is trying to declare the results at the earliest. He had said that the Bihar Board 10th result will be declared after May 20 and anytime before the end of the month.
According to the original schedule, BSEB was to declare the Bihar board 10th results 2020 by the March-end or beginning of April. However, the result got delayed because of the coronavirus lockdown due to which evaluation work had to be left midway. The evaluation work of answersheet resumed on May 6 and it took around a week to wrap up the process. After feeding and compiling the scores of students in the computer, toppers’ list was prepared. The top 10 rank holders were interviewed on video call by a panel of experts constituted by BSEB. The board usually declares the result after the toppers verification is complete. According to reports, the toppers’ verification process has been completed and the board is expected to declare the results anytime soon.
Candidates should register themselves here on our HT result portal to get instant alert of the Bihar Board 10th result 2020 after they are declared.
After the Bihar Board matric result is declared, candidates should visit the official website at biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in or biharboard.ac.in. Then click on the result link flashing on the homepage that reads Bihar Board matric result 2020. Key in your login credentials like roll number, roll code and registration number and submit.Your result will be displayed on the screen.Download and take its print out.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday addressed his third press conference regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) related measures. The governor announced a cut in the repo rate by 40 basis points (bps) to 4 per cent, while the reverse repo rate was reduced simultaneously to 3.35 per cent.
Prior to this meeting, Das held two pressers on March 27 and April 17, where cut its repo rate to 4.4 per cent and reverse repo rate to 3.75 per cent.
In his address to the media, the central bank governor said that an off-cycle meeting of the monetary policy committee (MPC) was done for past three days. He said that the MPC voted 5:1 in favour of a rate cut.
Over 87,000 volunteers of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) reached out to over 8.68 lakh students through phone on May 11 and 12 amid the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus and discussed various challenges facing the education sector today.
ABVP said in a release that its 87,868 volunteers reached out to students and an opinion has emerged that various modes of examinations like “carry over exams, open-book exams, reports and assignments and continuous evaluation must be preferred over mass promotion”.
It said that during the outreach, students prominently raised examination- related issues.
The release said that issues with accessibility of the internet and lack of proper online infrastructure with universities to conduct exams resulted in students asking for options like “carry over examinations”.
ABVP said it believes that no option which is exclusionary and puts at a disadvantage even one single student must be adopted.
The release said that students also expressed their wish that subjects like disaster management and Yoga be included in courses, classrooms should be technically adept, a common policy for entrance examinations be agreed upon and relaxation provided in age limit for students to appear in various competitive examinations.
It said ABVP will submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a detailed discussion on these topics.
Nidhi Tripathi, national general secretary, ABVP, said that Parishad’s style of functioning “is one of constant, 365 days a year activity”.
“Continuing with the same our volunteers have tried to get to know the opinions of the student community on a wide scale.”
“We will submit memoranda to administrations at various levels based on the suggestions shared by students. Momentous changes are required to ensure the best for the student community and bold steps, at the very basic level, need to be taken to make sure that our education sector keeps up with the times,” Tripathi said.
She said the student community needs to take steps to prepare itself for major changes.
On May 17, the Centre, in its revised guidelines for lockdown 4.0, said domestic air travel will remain prohibited till May 31. But in just three days, it had a change of mind. The reason: An imminent threat of more than one airline folding up, both on account of the extended lockdown and little to no relief in the economic package.
A special flight from the US that landed in Amritsar on May 19 was carrying 167 deportees. Among them was a convicted al-Qaeda operative from Hyderabad. As he serves the mandatory 14-day quarantine, intelligence agencies mull over their options.
Data on Chinese transgressions into the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) show there has been a marked increase in the western sector, which falls in Ladakh. Officials contend that they occur because both the militaries try to patrol the area up to their respective perceptions of the LAC, but concede that the Chinese are coming to the Indian side more often.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be travelling to Odisha and West Bengal to hold an aerial survey of the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan which claimed 72 lives. Track our live coverage here
The threat of hunger, evictions and unemployment created by the COVID fear and subsequent lockdown forced hundreds of thousands to return from the city to their native place. However, Uttarakhand’s ‘ghost villages’ are symptomatic of what forced them out in the first place. Not one of the more than two lakh residents of the state who have registered to return have opted for its 1,700-odd “nirjan” villages, areas with no road connectivity or opportunities, which now house just one-two families.
In today’s oped, senior advocate Justice Fali Nariman lauds the “humanitarian approach” of a division bench of the Karnataka High Court who had recently questioned the state government’s decision not to fund the travel of migrant workers if their home states do not deposit funds for train fares. “Like Abou Ben Adhem (in the poem by James Hunt) ‘May their tribe increase’,” he writes.
In poll-bound Bihar, high-decibel political activities are on hold, given the pandemic and the unprecedented reverse migration. But BJP leaders pointed out that the initiatives of the government and party would “eventually create goodwill for the party”.
On Sunday, India decided to keep schools closed for another two weeks. In Europe, millions of children have begun returning to classrooms. Will reopening make children vulnerable? Are there any findings to suggest that school reopening has led to a rise in cases in Europe? We try to answer these questions.
The World Health Organisation has poured water over the claims on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in treating Covid-19. Its warning comes two days after US President Donald Trump said he is on the drug, and at a time when India is going through heated discussions within the government on whether to reconsider its use.
With cricket suspended around the globe, a tiny corner of the Caribbean has started its own league, with all health protocols to be risk-free from any Covid-19 interruption. But before they start putting their talent on display, we take a look at a few old habits the players will have to unlearn before they begin internalising new ones.
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COVID-19 has created enormous anxiety and uncertainty but the US administration wants that Indian students come to the country for study, a senior American diplomat told a Washington DC-based think tank on Wednesday.
Alice Wells, the outgoing Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, however, said presently visas are not being processed due to the pandemic.
“So this is going to be an issue that I think we have to muddle our way through,” she told the former US Ambassador to India, Richard Verma, during a virtual discussion held by the Atlantic Council. Over 200,000 Indian students study in various American universities and they constitute the second largest group of foreign students in the US after China. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, almost all educational institutions are shut during the spring break, which has now been extended for the rest of the academic year till August.
“COVID-19 has created enormous anxiety and uncertainty for both American and foreign students alike, We need to ensure that as conditions allow, we do everything possible to keep that upward trajectory of Indian students in the United States, which last year topped over 200,000,” Wells said, adding that they needed to do everything possible in the present circumstances. ‘ “We’re going to, have to, approach this with an open mind,” she said, adding that the students act as ambassadors between the countries and their goal is to have Indian students in the US.
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