Programme on stress management
MAWKYRWAT: A programme on ‘Stress Management at Worplace: Promoting a Healthy Workplace for the District Heads’ was organised under the District Mental Health Programme (DMHP) at the PHE Conference Hall, Mawkyrwat, on Thursday. The DMHP was launched in Mawkyrwat on October 10, 2019 with an objective to promote and provide mental health services at different levels of district healthcare delivery system. In his address, Assistant Director, Good Governance Cell, MATI, Shillong, Ivoreen Warjri, dwelt at length on the symptoms of stress and ways to cope with it. Others who spoke included Dr FR Lartang, District Medical & Health Officer of South West Khasi Hills and Dr WL Narry, Nodal Officer, DM&HO, South West Khasi Hills.
APS sails though board exams
SHILLONG: The students of classes X and XII of Army Public School (APS) sailed through the CBSE board examinations, the results of which were recently declared. The results of the All India Senior School Certificate Examination 2020 were declared on July 13 and out of the 165 students, who appeared the examination, 44 scored 90 per cent and above marks in aggregate, a statement said on Thursday. Punit Sethia topped the Commerce stream by scoring an aggregate of 97.4 per cent, Jay Surana with 97 per cent secured second position and Mohit Mayank Chakraborty secured third position with 95.4 per cent. Shantanu Dhar (97.2 per cent) topped in Humanities, followed by second and third position holders Suhana Feroz (97 per cent) and Sagarika Mazumdar (96 per cent), respectively. Science stream topper Rohan Chakraborty scored 95.8 per cent, Phibadonbok Divinia Nongtraw, Laetitia Vida Tariang and Celine Mawlong, shared the second position with 95.6 per cent each and Aparna Amarnani secured third position with 95.4 per cent. This year, the school has achieved a record API of 295.76. In the All India Secondary School Examination 2020, whose results were declared on July 15, a total of 19 students secured 90 per cent and above marks in aggregate out of the 98 who appeared. Ayush Kumar Kharwar became the school topper by scoring 96.6 per cent, followed by second position holder Rishika Singh (95.2 per cent) and joint third position holders, Atharva Ajay Desai and Arjun Raj Singh, who scored 94 per cent each.
Students bring laurels to city school
SHILLONG: A city school — Gorkha Pathshala Higher Secondary School — has lauded its students for the performance in the HSSLC examination, whose results were announced recently, a statement issued here on Thursday, said. In Commerce stream, Prasant Karki bagged the 8th position, while Arjoicy Ryntathiang and Raj Kumar Rawat scored the highest marks in Computer Science. Also, Yogesh Chettri scored the highest marks in MIL (Nepali). Akansha Sharma and Priya Chettri were the star-mark holders. In this stream, the school achieved a pass percentage of 86.80 with 21, 28 and 16 students classified under first, second and third divisions, respectively, and a total of 16 distinctions. Meanwhile, in the Science stream, the pass percentage was 97.43. Nine were under first division, 28 second, and a single student under third division. It bagged a total of seven distinctions.
Ri Bhoi innovators’ day in the sun
NONGPOH: In a bid to encourage the untapped talent of local innovators in different fields from Ri Bhoi district, the Meghalaya Basin Management Agency through the Community Led Landscape Management Project organised a one-day programme called ‘Grassroots Innovations Dialogue’ at Science Hall here. The innovators, who were recognised and conferred with certificates during the day, included Stephan Shadap, a beekeeper from Nongthymmai village, Bhoirymbong area and Hejew Klein, an innovator from Tamonpoanglong in Ri Bhoi. The other innovators to be certified in the second batch included the Ri Bhoi Traditional Healer Association.