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 Guwahati: Gyandip Sarma of Sankardev Sishu Vidya Niketan, Bokakhat, Bhaswati Deka of St Mary’s, Maligaon (Guwahati) and Stuti Khuand of Sankardev Sishu Vidya Niketan, Bishwanath Chariali have topped the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) Examination by securing 94.83% marks (569 marks out of 600).

The results of High School Leaving Certificate Examination (HSLC) conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) have been declared on Friday.

Two candidates, Sahinur Rahman of Bijni Bandhab High School and Parijat Priyadarshani of St Joseph Convent, Tezpur, secured 2nd position in the examination. Priyanka Bezbaruah of Udayan Santi Niketan, Bejera secured 3rd position.

The pass percentage is highest in Nalbari District with 82.21%, while Chirang District showed poor performance with only 54.50% candidates passed in the examination.

A total of 2,78,704 students appeared in this examination. Out of them 1,94,067 candidates have passed this examination. This year the total pass percentage is 69.63%.

Students who have appeared for the examination can log on to website of the Board http://resultsassam.nic.in and http://www.seba.net.in to access their results.

A total of 99,974 boys have passed the examination, while 94,093 girls have passed the examination.

Out of the passed candidates 26,203 candidate have successfully secured 1st division, 68,180 have secured 2nd division, while 99,684 have passed in the 3rd division.

Meanwhile in Assam High Madrassa Examination a total of 7,931 candidates appeared.

Out of which a total of 5,475 candidates have passed the examination.

The pass percentage is 69.30%. 230 candidates secured 1st division, 2,172 have secured 2nd division while 3,073 has passed in the 3rd division.

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AGARTALA: The CPM registered a ‘stunning’ victory the much-campaigned Nalchar byelection considered semi-final before the 2013 Assembly elections.

CPM candidate Tapan Kumar Das defeated his arch rival Congress candidate- Dwijendra Lal Majumder by a massive margin- 4774 votes. In the last Assembly election, the CPM won the Nalchar Assembly constituency by 2500 votes.

Though four candidates from parties including CPI-M, Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have contested the June 12 by-election in the Nalchar assembly seat (reserved for the scheduled caste people), the main contest was between the CPI-M’s Tapan Chandra Das and the Congress’ Dwijendralal Majumder.

With Friday’s win, the Nalchar assembly constituency has won seven times by the CPI-M and two times by the Congress since Tripura became a full-fledged state in February 1972.

This time, the ruling party not only retained the SC reserved seat but also increase the vote share from 52.13 to 56.13 percent. Both BJP and Amara Bengali could not make any impact in the electoral battle as they got 463 and 385 votes respectively.

The outcome of byelection, political analysts say important and strategic keeping in the light of CPM’s downfall in Kerala and West Bengal in the last year. This also holds key for the ruling front before the next Assembly election slated for early next year.

Terming the win as positive and strategic, CPM state unit secretary Bijan Dhar on Friday said that the massive mandate was the reflection people’s confidence on the party. “Despite lot of conspiracy, the CPM’s victory holds important for the party to boost the Left Front government agenda for all round development”, he said. Asserting that the massive mandate in favour of the ruling front is a lesson for the Congress, Dhar said that the opposition left no stone unturned to defame the CPM during the campaign.

“The byelection outcome will defiantly boost the party morale in the next Assembly. This mandate also increases the responsibility and commitment towards the people”, he said adding that the party would respect the people’s faith on the Left Front.

Meanwhile, Congress spokesman Ratan Chakraborty said, “We accepted the verdict and will study the electoral outcome to take remedial measures”. It may be noted that the byelection witnessed a massive polling (96percent) on June 12 while it was 94 percent.

CPI-M spokesman Gautam Das reacting to the victory said: “The bypoll outcome has come as a slap for the misinformation campaign by a section of the media and Congress leaders.”

He said: “The voters of Nalchar have responded positively towards the development, success and pro-people policies of the Left Front government. The people have given a befitting reply to the anti-development and anti-people parties like Congress and their supporters.”

Political observers feel that the bypoll result, comes eight months ahead of the elections to the 60-seat assembly in the lone Left-ruled state Tripura, and is politically significant for both the ruling Left parties and the main opposition Congress.

Elections to the Tripura state assembly are scheduled in February 2013.

Top CPI-M leaders, including Chief Minister and CPI-M politburo member Manik Sarkar, and senior AICC general secretary Luizinho Faleiro, Tripura Congress president Sudip Roy Barman and Leader of Opposition Ratan Lal Nath had campaigned in the bypoll to win the vital elections. (With inputs from IANS)

Itanagar: Giving a clarion call to the State Police Force to fasten their belts, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Friday said, ‘if our police stick to their duties with utmost sincerity and fearlessly, our state would develop and be at par with the others.’

While attending the passing out parade of new recruits at the Police Training Center (PTC) here at Banderdewa, Tuki beckoned the police force to live up to the expectations of the people as well as the government so that administration, progress and peace go hand in hand for development and welfare of the society, official sources said.

He particularly called for an active role of the police in thwarting the ‘bandh culture’, which, was taking the state on the reverse.

Expressing displeasure over the recent 48-hour bandh in the state capital enforced by certain organizations, Tuki refused to accept the logic behind the ‘ultimatum’ and the ‘deadline’ served to the state government to fulfill certain demands put forth by the said organizations.

He pointed out that as far as the demand for relaxation of age for APST in APPSC competitive examinations up to 35 years was concerned, it has to be understood that decision that cannot be taken individually by the Commission or the government.

The state Public Service Commission is an autonomous body constituted by an Act passed by the State Legislative Assembly and has its own guidelines, rules and regulations, he said and added any change in it would have to be done through a constitutional amendment only by the Legislative Assembly during one of its sittings.

The Chief Minister was also critical about the other demand for “immediate cancellation of land allotments to non-APSTs,” sources said.

He reasoned that few allotments were given to non-Arunachalees and non-Arunachalee organizations during the formative years of the state, when the locals and local bodies were not in a position to set up any industry or institution.

‘Lands were allotted to organizations like Ramakrishna Mission, Vivekananda Kendra, Don Bosco and others to set up hospitals, schools and industries during the pre-evolution time of Arunachal Pradesh,” Tuki said.

” After so many years of their service to the state and its people, are we going to drive them away? In fact we should reward them for their contributions when none even dared to set foot into the region,” the chief minister said. (UNI)

Itanagar: The 55th Meeting of Brahmaputra Board (BB) was held on Friday to discuss the annual accounts of the year 2011- 2012 which would be formulated and submitted to the board by June 30 next.

The meeting, organised by the water resource department of Arunachal Pradesh, was attended by all the members of NE states and chaired by chairman of the Brahmaputra Board K Yadav and Commissioner N Kumar, official sources said.

The meeting also reviewed the earlier 54th meeting of Brahmaputra Board.

It has carried out detailed planning and documentation of the enormous water resources of the region and related problems. The meeting reviewed the potentials which includes preparation of Master Plan, survey, investigation and preparation of detailed project reports of the multipurpose projects and of the drainage congested areas and anti-erosion schemes. The meeting also gave importance to development and utilization of water resources of the Brahmaputra and Barak Valleys for hydro power, navigation, and other beneficial purposes, sources said.

Assignments, including preparation of DPR of the dams and other projects identified in Master plan and to take up construction and maintenance of the projects approved by the Central government was also discussed in the meeting. (UNI)

Kohima: The representatives of All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) yesterday demanded that the Memorandum of Understating (MoU), struck with Bangalore-based Mindlogicx Infratec Ltd, be revoked with immediate effect as the new system of declaring the undergraduate results was ‘creating confusion about the accuracy of the results’.

The union met Nagaland University Vice-Chancellor Prof B K Konwar and put forth their demand.

In a statement today, ANCSU president Vilhousielie and general secretary Kivigho K Yeputhomi said the MoU was signed between the Nagaland University and Bangalore-based Mindlogicx Infratec Ltd, which deals in integrated examination management system (EMS) in the university since 2011.

The ANCSU also sought clarifications from the NU authorities about the declaration of undergraduate results for two times.

ANCSU asked the authorities to make it public the stand of the University as to what they would do for the students who were declared pass in the first declaration but declared fail in the second declaration of results.

The statement said they demand for justice and solution to be given to the students immediately.

The ANCSU representatives cited that Naga students were unable to score high percentage while in NU, but once they go outside in some other universities they performed well, scoring excellent marks.

With regard to this, they requested the NU authorities to find out possibilities of changing the evaluation system. (UNI)

Rangiya (Assam): The largest, longest and the most visited mobile exhibition train ‘Science Express’ was on a 13-day tour of Assam now.

The train, an Indo-German collaboration, with 16 AC coaches began its Assam leg of the journey from Rangiya on June 12 and had currently reached Mariani in Upper Assam, train’s Project manager Sudhir Sharma said. The train, first introduced in 2007, would help both students and science teachers alike.

The train was first introduced in October 2007 and later it was handed over to the centre’s Department of Science and Technology and it has already covered 68,000 kms across the country during its four phases with more than 63.60 lakh people visiting it at 220 halts, Sharma said.

The current phase was flagged off on June 5, on World Environment Day, this year from Delhi’s Safdarjung station and later it reached Patna station and then Rangiya in Assam.

Science Express is now the largest, longest and most visited mobile science exhibition in India. Students visiting the exhibition have enjoyed learning about cutting-edge research in science; explained through interesting audio-visual exhibits and interactive tools.

After the successful run over four phases, this iconic train is now being launched as ‘Science Express – Biodiversity Special’ in its fifth phase.

In Assam, besides Rangiya and Mariani, it will also travel to Dibrugarh, Dimapur and Kamakhya in Guwahati. One of the coaches has been designed on North east’s biodiversity by former Gauhati University’s Zoology Department head of the department by Dr P C Bhattacherjee. (PTI)