Kenneth John

Digitisation of Uttar Pradesh: Over 50% funds between 2013-16 unused

Allahabad had the highest amount of funds allocated for digitisation. Out of ₹1.91 crore ₹1.24 crore remained unused, said the report.

UP board result 2017: Tejaswi Devi tops Class 10 and Priyanshi Tiwari Class 12 exam

UP board result 2017: Girls did better than boys in the high school or Class 10 and intermediate or Class 12 board examinations 2017, results of which were announced by the UP Board on Friday.

UP board result 2017 today: Students seek blessings, vent anger at new evaluation rule

Thousands of students across Uttar Pradesh offered prayers seeking blessings on Thursday, a day ahead of the announcement of UP Board Class 10 and Class 12 results.

UP Board results: Pass percentage varied due to strict measures, says expert

The number of students clearing the high school or Class 10 and intermediate or Class 12 board examinations of the UP Board fluctuated significantly in the past decade.

CBSE 10th result 2017: Allahabad region secures third spot in country

The Allahabad region of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) bettered its Class 10 results by a slight margin to secure the third spot in the country in the Class 10 board examinations.

UP Board’s Class 10 and Class 12 results to be declared on June 9

UP Board’s high school (Class 10) and intermediate (Class 12) results will be declared on June 9, 2017, at about 12 noon at the Board headquarters here.

After BJP formed govt in UP, deputy CM’s ‘sasural’ waits for electricity

Keshav Maurya’s mother-in-law Ram Dulari and other villagers have appealed to the BJP leader for electricity.

UPSC exam results: Saumya Pandey from Allahabad gets fourth rank

Saumya Pandey said her aim of becoming a civil servant is to serve the society on a large scale.

Ganga may soon be the first river in India to be protected by an Act

Union ministry of water resources and Ganga rejuvenation has constituted a four-member committee to review salient features of the National River Ganga (Rejuvenation Protection and Maintenance) Bill, 2017, for further action

UP juvenile shelter officials under fire as video of bound kids surfaces online

Both Childline volunteers and shelter officials have defended the action, stating that the three boys were “violent and uncontrollable”.

Now, ‘Swachhgrahis’ to help make Sangam city cleaner

The move is based on the concept of ‘Satyagrahis’, who were committed to achieving independence from the British through relentless peaceful resistance to excesses meted out to them.

Not allowed to cheat in UP Board exams, students leave money for evaluators in answer sheets

Curbs on cheating by the UP Board have pushed students to resort to desperate measures by bribing evaluators checking their board exam answer sheets

BJP MPs, MLAs to attend mahapanchayat to protest police atrocities on Dalits

The mahapanchayat, organised under the banner of All-India Confederation of SC/ST Employees Association, will be attended by BJP MP from Delhi North Udit Raj, who is also national chairman of the confederation. BJP MP from Kaushambi Vinod Sonker will lead the proceedings.

UP board exam 2017 results expected in first week of June

Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board may declare the results of its high school or Class 10 and intermediate or Class 12 examinations in the first week of June, sources said.

UP Board fixes 18 as upper age limit for high school candidates

JEE aspirants keep their fingers crossed ahead of results

Around 10.20 lakh students across the country who have been anxiously waiting for the results of the joint entrance examination (JEE) Main.

In the season of exams, it’s business as usual for Uttar Pradesh’s ‘copying mafia’

Reports suggest that steps taken to curb the menace of cheating have proved ineffective in dissuading the well entrenched ‘copying mafia’ active in Uttar Pradesh.

Highlights | Kashmir’s youth have choice to select path of tourism or terrorism: PM Modi after inaugurating Chenani-Nashri tunnel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also address a public rally at Battal Ballian in Udhampur district of Jammu later on Sunday.

Not allowed to cheat: Is that why over 2.7 lakh students have skipped UP Board exams?

So far 1, 91,601 Class 12 examinees also reported absent during the examination that commenced on Thursday

AU students’ ‘Hamari Pathshala’ to better the lives of slum kids

Working under the name ‘Hamari Pathshala’, the group teaches fundamentals of English, Hindi and Mathematics to around 110 underprivileged kids at three different slums in the city.

UP election 4th phase highlights: 60.37% voting till 5pm, people boycott polling in Khaga

The fourth phase polling in Uttar Pradesh is underway on Thursday. Fifty-three assembly constituencies spread over 12 districts, including the backward Bundelkhand region and the Nehru-Gandhi pocket borough of Rae Bareli, are going to polls in this phase. In 2012, the Samajwadi Party had won 24, BJP five, Bahujan Samaj Party 15, Congress six and ‘others’ three of these seats. This time 680 candidates are in the fray, and their fate will be decided by 1.84 crore voters, including 84 lakh women.

Water woes create no ripples in netas’ stream of consciousness

Shankergarh in Allahabad’s Bara assembly constituency has two big problems: Mass migration and frequent deaths due to silicosis and consumption of silica-laced water as the area is a hub of silica sand mining

No road, no vote: Villagers tell candidates

Residents have been demanding construction of 2.5 kilometre stretch of road which is in a dilapidated state connecting their village to Phulpur-Soraon main road.

UP board Class 10 and 12 exams to begin from March 16

The Class 10 (high school) and Class 12 (intermediate examinations) of UP Board would commence from March 16, 2017.

Soon, a proposal on dolphin centres on Ganga

As many as 1260 Gangetic dolphins were seen in a recent survey conducted jointly by the UP forest department and WWF-India between October 5 and 8, 2016 on a 1500-kilometre stretch of the Ganga covering Allahabad,Varanasi and Ballia.

Magh Mela set to be cost-effective, eco-friendly affair

The administration has decided to introduce LED lights in the camps of devotees and administrative wings. The officials have also decided to ban the use of polythene bags and plastic at the mela area.

No plans to play more active role in UP politics: Priyanka Gandhi

Priyanka Gandhi has so far confined her electoral campaigning to constituencies of her mother Sonia Gandhi and brother Rahul Gandhi.

Mentally ill chained, tortured for ‘treatment’ at Allahabad dargah

Mentally ill are brought to the dargah, and chained and tortured in the name of treatment, in Allahabad.

Allahabad school manager jailed, tension grips city

Allahabad school manager who ‘banned’ national anthem jailed, tension grips area

Quick action by civil authorities prevented a possible communal flare up in Allahabad after the manager of a private school who was arrested on Sunday night for not allowing the singing of the national anthem in the morning assembly, was sent to jail on Monday.