Bihar Board 10th Result 2020 Live Updates: BSEB 10th result 2020 not to be announced today - education

Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB)will not announce the Bihar Board 10th result 2020 today. The Bihar Board students will have to wait for few more days to get their results online at biharbordonline.bihar.gov.in.Over 15 lakh candidates had appeared for the Bihar Board class 10th exam that was conducted from February 17 to 24.

BSEB has already declared its intermediate results on March 24. The answersheet evaluation of BSEB matric exam had to be left midway after the lockdown was imposed in the country due to coronavirus pandemic.

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BSEB 10th result not to be announced today

After waiting for another whole day, BSEB is not declaring the result even today, BSEB chairman informed Live Hindustan team. He said that the post evaluation work is still pending and it might take four to five days to complete.

Bihar Board 10th students losing patience on social media

Lakhs of students who have been anxiously waiting for their Bihar 10th results 2020 are losing their patience now. Many students took to Twitter and asked the board to declare the results as early as possible. One of the Twitter user Khushi Srivstava wrote, “This is mental harassment’.

BSEB Bihar 10th result 2020: Get instant result alert on SMS when the result is out

Candidates can click here to register for the Bihar Board 10th result alert. The registered candidates will receive an SMS on their registered mobile number when the result is out. Click here to get result notification. 

Bihar Board 10th result 2020: Board officials keeping mum

BSEB officials are completely silent about the result update. Officials are not responding to calls neither giving any update about the date and time of result declaration. However, according to sources as reported to other media, the result will be announced very soon.

Bihar Board 10th Result 2020: Pass percentage of previous years

In the year 2018, the Bihar Board pass percent was 68 which rose to 80.73 in the year 2019. This year also the result is expected to be better than last year. Students said that they found the question paper very easy this year.

Keep your admit card ready

Candidates are advised to keep their admit cards handy with them. They will have to enter the roll code, roll number and registration number as mentioned in their admit card to check their BSEB class 10th result 2020.

BSEB likely to announce the Bihar Board 10th result 2020 shortly

BSEB is expected to announce the Bihar Board 10th result 2020 on its official websites soon. Candidates who had appeared for the BSEB class 10th exam will be able to check their results online at biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in.

Over 15 lakh candidates anxiously waiting for their class 10th results

Over 15 lakh students have been anxiously waiting for their Bihar Board 10th results. The exam was conducted from February 17 to 24.

List of websites to check BSEB Bihar Board 10th result online

Students can visit the official websites like biharboard.ac.in or biharboardonline. bihar.gov.in or biharboard.online to check their results. They will have to login using their roll code, roll number and registration number to check their scores.

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Lockdown & railway engineer help reunite mentally ill woman with children after 4 yrs

Written by Tabassum Barnagarwala
| Mumbai |

Published: May 23, 2020 2:54:55 am

Officials with the NGO said since Maharashtra has a high number of Covid-19 cases, the children have decided that their mother would continue to stay in Tamil Nadu until the pandemic eases out. (Representational Photo)

Four years ago, the woman, now in her late fifties, had wandered away from her village in Ratnagiri district. Suffering from mental illness, she travelled over 1,000 km into Tamil Nadu, without knowing where she was going. There she lived the life of a destitute. On Thursday, in the most unlikely circumstances, the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown reunited her with her two children in Chennai.

A month ago, junior railway engineer Shyam Meena first spotted her alone at the Arokkonam railway station, a small town 70 km west of Chennai. She was healthy but dishevelled, he says, and had spent three-four days at the railway station.

“We first thought she had parted with her family and was waiting at the station. Soon, we realised she was suffering from some mental illness. She was staying at the railway station because everything else was shut and there was nowhere else to go,” Meena, 39, said.

She had not eaten food or drank water for several days. The railway officials fed her and when they asked her about her native place, she could remember just three things: the names of her village, taluka, and her two children.

“The lockdown had helped as she was forced to stay in one place. I started searching online for the village. It took us two days,” Meena said. He found the number for the local police station. Four hours after his first call to Ratnagiri police, the woman’s son was traced.

Meena had called the landline of Devrukh police station, a small town in Maharashtra, and spoken to the on-duty constable. Inspector Nisha Jadhav of Devrukh station said the constable, who answered the call, asked Meena to send the woman’s photo, and armed with it, started visiting villages around Devrukh. “We knew her surname, people with a particular surname live together in specific villages. In one of the villages, the sarpanch recognised her photo and gave her son’s number,” Jadhav said.

That night the son made a video call on Meena’s phone, and identified his mother. “But she had to be explained who he was,” Meena said.

The woman has been suffering from mental illness for over a decade. After her husband died, both her children were admitted to a government home while she lived in the village. Sunil Kamble, the former head of the government home, where the son was residing, said she could not regularly meet her children due to her illness. “About four years ago, she just left home. Since then they had been looking for her,” he said, adding that both her children were educated at the government home. While her daughter is married, her son has recently completed his education.

After the video call with their mother, they started preparing for police permissions to travel to Tamil Nadu. Despite the lockdown, police facilitated the paperwork to allow them to travel. The woman, meanwhile, stayed under the care of railway officials for a few days and was later shifted to a shelter home run by an NGO for mentally ill. On Thursday, her son and daughter reached Chennai and met her.

Officials with the NGO said since Maharashtra has a high number of Covid-19 cases, the children have decided that their mother would continue to stay in Tamil Nadu until the pandemic eases out.

Mohd Tarique, from NGO Koshish, said, “The problem is mentally ill destitute persons have always been neglected. Earlier, they would get food from a local shop or neighbourhood, now lockdown has shut even that source,” he said.

“The lockdown has affected several people psychologically. Destitute, who are mentally ill, are last in the priority list of the government. But their mental needs have to be addressed,” said Dr KV Kishore Kumar, director of The Banyan, an NGO that works for mentally ill.

(Name of the woman concealed as per the Mental Health Care Act, 2017)

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UPSC civil services prelims 2020: Last minute tips to improve your chances to qualify - education

The civil services preliminary examination is a gateway to Civil Services which is considered among the coveted services in India. The CSE examination is considered as the most competitive examination with about seven to eight lakh students appearing in the preliminary stage. Therefore, aspirants must utilize a limited time frame before the examinations to maximize their level of preparation. With meticulous planning and a careful strategy, aspirants can ace the preliminary stage.

In these last days of preparation, aspirants must focus on revising their syllabus and making sure that they remember their study material well. The following article contains some last-minute tips and tricks that the aspirants should follow to improve their score.

Stick to the Syllabus

Students should revisit the syllabus and stick to it strictly. They must resist the temptation of studying topics that are irrelevant to the syllabus. Remember, the examination is more of a test of your personality rather than knowledge. Also, they must not fall prey to reading a new textbook or notes during this time. Revise and revise. Your handwritten notes will come handy at this time. Focus on conceptual clarity instead of merely cramming facts.

Manage your Study Time

Aspirants must manage and organize their time well to revise all the topics that they have prepared for. The selective intensive study must be followed to concentrate on your key strength areas. It is the quality of preparation rather than quantity that matters. Take a short break every hour. Try to assess the time of the day when your concentration level is the highest and utilize it for your studies. Do not think about the past results and instead concentrate on the present.

Focus on Current Affairs

Students should be thoroughly abreast of current affairs. Studying at least one newspaper daily is a must especially opinion columns that give you a perspective on current events. Aspirants need to have a strong base knowledge of major topics in the syllabus, including awareness of key current developments in India and worldwide.

Practise Mock Tests and Previous Year Papers

Solving mock tests and previous years’ papers helps you to get into the frame of the examination and manage your time well during the examination. It also makes you familiar with the pattern of the question paper. Try to solve as many mock tests as you can. This will boost your confidence. It is also important to keep a balance between your speed and accuracy.

Stay positive

It is important to stay positive throughout the examination cycle. It is imperative to keep reminding yourself that your preparation is up to the mark and it is just an ‘examination’ at the end of the day. It is important to maintain calm. Practising a 5-10-minute meditation also helps to cope with stress.

Do not overstretch a day before the examination and sleep well to stay fresh in the examination hall.

Clearing Civil Services examination requires unparalleled levels of commitment and hard work. However, numerous aspirants qualify it for every year through smart planning and strategy. So, aspirants must keep their faith in themselves while preparing for this examination.

(Author Rohit Manglik is CEO, EduGorilla. Views expressed here are personal.)

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Amid worries over high level of pulses inflation, RBI Guv calls for re-appraisal of import duties

Written by Prabha Raghavan
| New Delhi |

Published: May 23, 2020 2:01:50 am

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said many corporates are finding it difficult to raise funds from the
capital market. (PTI)

With the COVID-19 outbreak and the nationwide lockdown leading to a surge in the prices of pulses in India, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday flagged the need for a review of the import duties levied on these products.

Some experts feel the duties would have to be brought down to at least 15 per cent from duties as high as 50 per cent at present, in order to ensure sufficient supply and stabilise these prices.

“The supply shock to food prices in April may show persistence over the next few months, depending upon the state of the lockdown and the time taken to restore the supply chains after relaxation of the lockdown. Among the pressure points, the elevated level of pulses inflation is worrisome and warrants timely and swift supply side interventions, including a re-appraisal of the import duties,” said Das during Friday’s announcement, where the central bank cut interest rates and extended the moratorium on term loans and working capitals by another three months.

Food inflation — which had eased in February and March — had “suddenly reversed” and surged 8.6 per cent in April “as supply disruptions took their toll immune to the ongoing demand compression”, said Das, citing “incomplete” inflation data by the National Statistics Organisation (NSO).

“Prices of vegetables, pulses, oilseeds, milk and cereals emerged as pressure points,” he said, adding that the inflation outlook is “highly uncertain”.

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India produced 23.40 million tonnes of pulses in the 2018-19 crop year, 25.42 million tonnes in 2017-18, and 23.13 million tonnes in 2016-17, according to government data.

Prior to this, production of pulses in the country remained below 20 million tonnes (between 2005-06 and 2015-16).

Meanwhile, imports of most pulses dropped between 2016-17 and 2018-19, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

“Normally, for all these years, we were continuously short of pulses. But, in 2016-17, we had around six million tonnes jump in production. This used to be on average the amount in pulses that we would import every year,” said Dr Ashok Gulati, Infosys chair professor for agriculture at ICRIER. This led to a raise in import duties to as much as 50 per cent from around five per cent earlier, he said.

“Now, we have run out of all those stocks and there is domestic pressure and excessive demand, perhaps because of the lockdown … the only way to cool down the pressure is to augment supply by reducing the duty to around 15 per cent,” Gulati said.

The nationwide lockdown has also halted activities in pulse mills, leading to the shortfall and sharp spike in price currently being experienced, according to Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) chairman Mohit Singla. “Approximately 3 million tonnes of imported pulses would be needed to meet the shortfall in the current fiscal year, as domestic consumption of pulses is at 25 million tonnes,” he said.

“A production target of 26.30 million tonnes for pulses was set by the Union Government for the year 2019-20. The actual production would be reduced by 10 per cent because of unseasonal rain and a subsequent reduction in the area of land being cultivated for pulses,” Singla said.

“Thus, the government may think to further revise the import quota or can also think to reduce import tariff as suggested by RBI to release the inflationary pressure,” he added.

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Bihar to modify order on 7th pay arrear after teachers’ protest, but verification rider to stay - education

Bihar’s department of education is contemplating to modify its May 18 order, which made payment of 7th UGC pay arrear to teachers in universities and colleges only after clearance from the pay verification cell of the government, following widespread protests form teachers and their associations across the state.

A senior department official said the department would put a rider that verification from the cell would not be required for those who have got the authentication slip for the sixth pay.

This would still prohibit nearly 1000 teachers from availing the 7th pay arrear, though they are drawing the revised salary. The matter will be referred to the department of finance for final approval. A department official said the department would exempt the new teachers appointed since 2017 from verification, as there was no issue with their salary fixation.

However, for two universities – BRA Bihar University (Muzaffarpur) and LN Mithila Univeristy (Darbhanga) – director, higher education, Rekha Kumari issued a separate order on May 20 to the registrars that verification of 7th pay revision from the cell was mandatory for arrear payment. Interestingly, the order has come when bulk of the teaachers have already got their arrear payment in BRA Bihar University.

The May 18 notification issued by special secretary, department of education, to all the registrars said that many vice chancellors had sought guidelines for arrear payment and it had been found that the pay verification cell had not yet issued the approval list for the 7th pay to them. The government has already been paying 7th UGC pay to teachers for nearly a year

Patna University teachers’ association (PUTA), federation of university teachers’ association of Bihar (FUTAB), teachers’ associations of College of commerce, Arts & Science, AN College and various other bodies questioned the role of cell in the university matters and the timing of the letter “at the behest of some VCs”.

“This is what makes things complicated when the state universities are headed by people who don’t have the idea of what happened in the past. The universities have a statutory body in the form of pay fixation committee to deal with such matters. The pay verification cell cannot overrule the statutory body,” said FUTAB president KB Sinha.

Sanjay Kumar, MLC and general secretary of FUTAB, cited the department’s own order of 2015 after a case against the constitution of the pay verification cell was filed in the Patna High Court. The 2015 order clearly defined the cell’s role in the light of the court ruling that it could not annul or modify previous notifications issued by the university through its statutory committee, unilaterally.

In its order, the HC had clearly defined the status and role of the pay verification cell, constituted by the state government on April 8, 2013 to authenticate all the claims of teachers and employees to prepare a comprehensive database.

“When the government has started paying 7th pay and also released funds for arrear payment, it shows the incompetence of the universities to delay it for months and then seek further guidelines to mislead the department, knowing fully well that when the PVC has not been able to complete verification in seven years, it could further take years to do the same,” said Sinha.

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Gloved umpires to not hold sweaters, sunglasses, states ICC guidelines

By: Express News Service |

Updated: May 23, 2020 1:06:15 am

Players should now manage sun-glasses, sweaters and caps on their own. (Source: Reuters)

The International Cricket Council (ICC) perceives the cricket ball as the biggest risk factor in its endeavours to resume the game. So days after prohibiting the application of saliva on leather, a usual practice to ‘keep’ the ball, the ICC, in its guidelines to a safe resumption of the game, sheds a lot of thought on the “management of the ball.”

BALL MANAGING

To start with, they emphasise on not sharing the equipment, which is feasible with all other equipment of the sport but the cricket ball. It passes hands between overs, at intervals, and at the close of play. The guidelines vaguely specify role-specific measures to minimise the risk the cricket ball entails.

For instance, the umpire can wear protective gloves, the bowlers should refrain from touching eyes, nose, and mouth after making contact with the ball. They can’t obviously use saliva (though sweat is permissible), and should regularly rinse their hands with sanitisers after touching the ball, which probably he/she could between overs. Moreover, they should now manage sun-glasses, sweaters and caps on their own.

It’s trickier for fielders to keep their hands regularly sanitised with alcohol-based hand-rub as the ICC prescribes, especially in the limited over games, where fielders are much more in action than the longest format. Taking breaks between overs is time-consuming. Maybe, they could keep a sachet or bottle in their pocket.

READ | No to saliva, yes to sweat: ICC and its match-ball rules

GENERAL CAUTION

General hygiene practices also apply, like “coughing or sneezing into your bent elbow, no sharing of water bottles and towels, and no shared use of equipment, unless it’s an indispensable part of the protocol. Also, players, as much as possible, should be encouraged to adopt a ‘ready to train’ approach where possible, which implies coming to training prepared without the need to use any communal facilities such as changing rooms or showering facilities. Also, the venue should have additional changing room facilities to allow for social distancing. There should also be no bed linen in treatment rooms.

BIO-SAFETY OFFICIAL

If sports bodies across the world are building bio-secure stadiums, the ICC insists on appointing a medical advisor or biosafety official, whose task is to keep a tab on the bio-security of a venue as well as players. He will also be responsible for implementing government regulations, as well as assisting “with planning for a safe return to training and competition.”

PRE-MATCH CHECKS

Teams are advised pre-match 14-day isolation camps, where their health, risk factors and temperature will be continuously monitored. In this regard, an appropriate testing plan during training and competition will be chalked out to guarantee that the team members and support staff are uninfected. Depending on cost, speed, accuracy, and availability, frequent COVID-19 tests too could be conducted on the players. Hosts should facilitate speedy consultations and tests to minimise waiting time. In short, there could be an increased presence of medical staff in the stadium as well as when a team travels.

BIO-SECURE BUBBLE

As much as they could, the players should travel in sanitised vehicles, hopping from one safety-bubble to the other. If they are travelling abroad, they should consider using chartered flights and regulate seat spacing inside the flights. Besides, they should undergo mandatory quarantine after landing in a new country as well after returning home. If the stadium doesn’t have inbuilt hotel/lodging facilities, they should be a dedicated hotel floor and staff. Rooms shouldn’t be shared either. Moreover, adequate arrangements should be in place if a team member tests positive.

READ | ‘No loo breaks during training, no handing over cap to umpire’

BACKGROUND CHECK

Before allotting a venue or a training facility, an assessment should be made on the extent of the virus spread in the particular community and whether the community has the facilities to deal with it.

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Bihar Board 10th result 2020 not to be announced today - education

Bihar Board 10th result has again been delayed. BSEB chairman Anand Kishor has told Live Hindustan that the post- evaluation work of board result is still left and it might take four to five days to complete it. It is expected that the result will be declared anytime after Monday. Lakhs of students were anxiously waiting for their results on Friday . They will have to wait for few more days to get the Bihar Board 10th result 2020.

BSEB has already completed the toppers’ verification process and the board is busy in some post-evaluation work. Once the pending work is completed, the Bihar board students will get their results online at biharboard.online or biharboard.ac.in.

Many students took to Twitter to request the board officials to announce their results as early as possible.

Earlier it was expected that the result will be declared on Friday by 6 pm. However, the board officials did not give any update regarding this and could not be contacted after several attempts.

After the Bihar Board 10th result is declared, students can check their results by keying in their roll code, roll number and registration number on the official websites as mentioned above.

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