CET exams postponed to avoid date's collision with LS Polls
Bengaluru: In the wake of Lok Sabha Elections that will be held in two phases in Karnataka on April 18 and 23 respectively. The Common Entrance Test (CET) has been postponed by the authorities to avoid collision of two events.
Earlier, the CET was scheduled on April 23 and 24, colliding with the date of second phase of Lok Sabha Elections.
To avoid the collision which would lead to cause inconvenience to the students to cast their votes, the exams have now been postponed to new dates. The exams will now be conducted on April 29 and 30.
The revised schedule of the exams announced by the authorities is as follows.
Biology exam will be conducted on April 29 between 10:30 to 11.50 am, Maths exams will be conducted on the same afternoon between 2:30 to 3:50pm.
On April 30, Physics exams will be held 10:30 to 11.50 am, while in the afternoon between 2:30 to 3:50pm Chemistry paper will be conducted. Kannada Language paper will exams will be conducted on May 1, according to the revised time-table.
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MP boat tragedy: Death toll rises to 10 with recovery of one more body; 3 tourists still missing
Jabalpur (PTI): The body of a child was retrieved on Saturday evening from Bargi Dam in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, raising the death toll in the cruise boat tragedy that took place two days ago to ten, while search continued for three missing tourists.
The boat, operated by the state tourism department, capsized during a storm on Thursday evening with some of the survivors alleging negligence and safety lapses such as life jackets not being distributed in time.
The body recovered on Saturday evening was possibly that of six-year-old Viraj Soni, said Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Anjul Ayank Mishra.
"The identity will be confirmed after family members identify the body," he told PTI.
Kamraj, an employee of the Ordnance Factory at Khamaria, his five-year-old son Tamil, and another child Mayuram (5) who had come from southern India were still missing.
Authorities have arranged equipment to search deep waters of the dam and are getting a generator to facilitate diving operations, Mishra added.
Divers and disaster response teams have expanded the search radius to five km, he said.
Of the 41 identified passengers on board the ill-fated vessel, 28 were rescued, police said.
More than 200 rescuers, including around 20 Army divers airlifted from Agra, joined the search operation that resumed at 5 on Saturday morning. The operation, involving the National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force and local divers, was briefly affected at around 9 am due to strong winds, officials said.
Post-mortem examinations of nine deceased persons have been completed, Mishra said.
"Our priority is to search for the missing persons. We will also register a First Information Report in the case soon," he said.
Police said CCTV footage near the boarding point showed 43 people heading towards the boat while the identities of 41 passengers have been confirmed so far.
The state government on Friday ordered a probe into the tragedy and dismissed three crew members. It also banned operation of similar vessels in the state.
