Lucknow, April 28: Nine persons were killed on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh when their vehicle travelling at high speed rammed into a truck parked on the roadside in Lakhimpur Kheri, police said.
Nine of the 17 people in the mini van were killed instantaneously. The injured were rushed to a hospital, where the condition of three is said to be critical.
The accident on national highway-24 apparently took place as the driver had dozed off at the wheel around 6 a.m., a police officer said.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has condoled the loss of lives. He ordered the district administration to ensure proper treatment to the injured, a government spokesman told here.
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Karnataka students shine in ICSE, ISC exams with over 99% pass percentage
Bengaluru: In the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) for classes 10 and 12, Karnataka students outshine other states with pass percentages reaching 100%, as per the results announced on April 30.
With an overall pass percentage of 99.70%, altogether 29,745 students from 425 schools appeared in the ICSE 10 examination. Girls once again surpassed boys, attaining a pass percentage of 99.82%, while boys' was 99.58%. Only 89 students could not pass these examinations.
With 99.63% of 2,442 students from 55 schools passing the exams, it is a registered robust performance for ISC stream students of class 12. The performance was no less impressive among reserved category students, with 2019 Scheduled Caste (SC) students of class 10 recording a 99.41% pass percentage, while 479 Scheduled Tribe (ST) students along with 13,238 Other Backward Class (OBC) students recorded pass percentages of 99.37% and 99.56%, respectively.
With a pass percentage of 93.81%, 97 SC students passed in Class 12, while all 33 ST and 447 OBC students passed with a 100% success rate for both groups.
