Bengaluru: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 10 students who wrote the Kannada (Second language) paper on Saturday, were left scratching their head as they witnessed out of syllabus questions for at least 20 marks.

According to the reports about 25,975 students appeared for the paper from across the country on Saturday 9th March.

The question paper had questions from old syllabus which was changed couple of years ago. Some of the schools claimed that out of syllabus questions amounted for 26.5 marks while few claimed the figure to be 22 marks. An official clarification from the board is awaited.

Times of India quoted M srinivasan, President CBSE Independent Schools Association, Karnataka as saying “It was chaotic when the question papers were distributed. Students immediately noticed there was a problem. We need to speak to the CBSE and award grace marks or mull a re-exam. CBSE should be lenient in awarding grace marks”.

Several students took to twitter immediately after the exams to complain about the errors in a state of panic and worry.

A CBSE spokesperson however assured students of the board taking a ‘considered view to safeguard the interests of students as per it’s standard protocol’ and asked them not to panic.

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Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has slammed the BJP government in the Centre for the hike in the price of commercial LPG, saying the sudden rise of the fuel rate by Rs 993 a cylinder has hit the common man hard.

Critically commenting that this was expected of the Centre after elections to five states, Rao posted in Kannada on his ‘X’ account on Saturday that the people have been shown only the trailer and, the real struggle is yet to begin.

“Since there is no election in any state, there will certainly be major hikes in the rates of petrol, diesel and domestic LPG in barely a few days,” he has predicted.

The minister has further tweeted, “The rate of commercial LPG has gone up to Rs 3,152 per cylinder, which will hit the hotel industry greatly. Ironically, the direct impact of the hike will be on customers of hotel.”

He pointed out that, earlier, the price used to be hiked by approximately Rs 50 and Rs 100 a cylinder. “This time, the rate has been shot up by Rs 993. What do we call this except daylight robbery? Can this be the ‘Acche Din’ that the BJP has been promising?” Rao asked mockingly.

He also questioned the cause for BJP members’ silence for the rate hike, reminding that the party always ‘threw a tantrum’ when a non-BJP government does so even at a minor level. “Does this reflect their fear of ‘Vishwaguru’ Modi? Is it the party’s sheer disregard for the welfare of the people?” he has questioned.