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No marks will be deducted on wrong questions asked in Simultala School admission test , says BSEB
Fire creates panic in a Nala Road petrol pump
Dozen of vehicles destroyed in Kotwali Police Station fire
Chhatra JD(U) demonstrates against Pakistan
Labour-Employee Rights Conference held
AAP workers submit a memorandum of demands to Bihar CM
151 IITian's Tapasya students crack JEE Main
Ravi Kishan, Anjana Singh promote Bhojpuri action movie Shahenshah

No marks will be deducted on wrong questions asked in Simultala School admission test , says BSEB

Posted: 05 May 2017 08:34 AM PDT

Patna: Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has decided not to deduct the marks of the students attempting wrong questions asked in the papers of Simultala Residential School admission test held recently.

The BSEB which uploaded the question papers and answer key of the test in its website recently and sought stakeholders response regarding objections with proof, has found that three questions out of 150 in class 6 question paper, 2 questions out of 150 in class 7 paper and one question out of 150 in class 9 paper were wrong.

BSEB chairman Anand Kishor said here on Friday that no marks would be deducted for attempting wrong questions.

He directed the officials of the BSEB to take disciplinary action against the paper setters and also asked to blacklist them.

He said the BSEB had formed a team of experts which would submit its report within two days and then the a fresh answer key would be uploaded on the Board's website.

In another major decision, the BSEB has suspended two officers namely Kundan Kumar Sinha and Anand Kumar of its central section for gross negligence as the Board has detected that the concerned officers had uploaded wrong answers in all four sets of papers in Board's web portal.

The BSEB has also served show cause notice to its deputy secretary Praveen Kumar in this regard and his payment of salary has been stopped.

Fire creates panic in a Nala Road petrol pump

Posted: 05 May 2017 05:06 AM PDT

Patna: A sudden fire broke out with an explosion in a fuel filling machine of a Nala Road petrol pump under Kadam Kuan police station area created panic among the customers as well as staff members of the filling station here on Thursday.

At the time of the incident the machine was in service filling petrol in a vehicle. Customers ran for safety leaving their vehicles on the petrol pump campus. However, the staff members of the petrol pump with the help of firefighting equipment doused the fire and brought the situation under control.

Later, fire tender and police reached the spot to ascertain the cause of the fire.

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Dozen of vehicles destroyed in Kotwali Police Station fire

Posted: 05 May 2017 04:45 AM PDT

Patna: About a dozen of seized vehicles parked in the premises of Kotwali Police Station were destroyed in a fire that broke out, said to be from short circuit, here on Thursday evening.

The Police quickly swung into action pulling the other vehicles out of the danger zone. Fire tenders were called to douse the leaping flame. Thee fire tenders, which were put into service, took more than 30 minutes to tame the blaze.

The fire created panic as police restricted the traffic movement from Dak Bungalow to Income Tax crossing for more than one hour.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

Chhatra JD(U) demonstrates against Pakistan

Posted: 05 May 2017 01:08 AM PDT

Patna: Students wing of Janata Dal (United) aka Chhatra JD(U) staged demonstration in protest against the recent killing of Indian soldiers by Border Action Team (BAT) of Pakistan on Thursday.
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Labour-Employee Rights Conference held

Posted: 05 May 2017 01:04 AM PDT

Patna: Mazdoor-Karmachari Adhikar Sammelan (Labour-Employees Rights Conference) was organised at Indian Medical Association hall here on Thursday.
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AAP workers submit a memorandum of demands to Bihar CM

Posted: 05 May 2017 01:00 AM PDT

Patna: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers submitted a memorandum of demands to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar here on Thursday.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

151 IITian's Tapasya students crack JEE Main

Posted: 04 May 2017 07:33 PM PDT

Patna: One hundred an fifty one (151) students of IITian's Tapasya cracked the JEE Main and qualified for JEE Advance, according to institute director Pankaj Kumar Kapadia.

Expressing his happiness, he said the result of the JEE Main was on expected line.

Shubham Narayan Jha of Madhubani scored 255 marks and got 1926 position in all India rankings.

Shubham was a student of two-year class room programme of the institute.

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Ravi Kishan, Anjana Singh promote Bhojpuri action movie Shahenshah

Posted: 05 May 2017 04:31 AM PDT

Patna: Bhojpuri film star Ravi Kishan was here on Thursday to promote his latest Bhojpuri action movie Shahenshah along with actor Anjana Singh. The film is releasing on Friday (May 5).
Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui