Girls outshine boys in Karnataka Common Entrance Test
Bengaluru(PTI): Girls outshone boys in the Karnataka Common Entrance Test, the results of which were announced on Saturday.
However, boys were the toppers in the engineering, Bachelor of Naturopathy and Yogic Science (BNYS), agriculture science, veterinary science and pharmacy streams.
Apoorv Tandon, Siddhartha Singh and Amtakuri Venkata Madhava Sriram topped in the engineering category while Arun Ravishankar, Sumeet Patil and Sudeep Y M were the top BSc (Agriculture) rank holders.
In the BSc Veterinary category, Hrishikesh Nagbhushan Gangule, Manish S A and Shuba Kaushik were the top three rank holders.
According to the Karnataka Examination Authority, 2,10,829 students had written the KCET, which were held on June 16 and 17 across 486 centres.
Out of 1,42,750 eligible candidates for BNYS, 80,008 were girls.
In the engineering category, out of 1,71,656 eligible candidates, 88,575 are girls. Similarly, out of 1,39,968 eligible candidates for Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, 78,070 are girls.
In the veterinary science category, 1,42,820 were eligible and among them 80,044 are girls.
Girls dominated in the eligibility list for B.Pharma and D.Pharma courses as well.
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Vijay unable to prove majority, not invited for CM oath ceremony: Sources
Chennai: Actor-politician Vijay has reportedly not been invited to take oath as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after failing to demonstrate support from the required number of MLAs, sources in Raj Bhavan said.
According to media reports that quoted sources in the office of R.N. Ravi Arlekar, Vijay could not prove the backing of 118 legislators, the majority mark in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly.
Despite last-minute efforts to secure support from the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazagam (AMMK), and an IUML legislator, Vijay reportedly managed support from only 116 MLAs, falling short by two members.
Sources said Vijay failed to submit letters of support from the VCK and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
Later, the IUML issued a statement clarifying that it was not part of the TVK-led alliance.
Meanwhile, AMMK leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran is also said to have informed the Governor that his party would support the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) instead.
Earlier in the evening, Vijay had met Governor Arlekar and staked claim to form the government, stating that he enjoyed the support of 118 MLAs.
