Bengaluru: The Minister for Primary and Higher Education B.C. Nagesh said, “The students writing the 2nd PUC examinations will not be allowed to wear any religious attire including the Hijab”, he informed. 

The 2nd PUC Examination for the academic year 2021-2022 will take place from April 22 to May 18, and in the background of this, the Minister addressed the media at a press conference held at Vidhana Soudha and said, “The PUC Examinations will be conducted following the model of SSLC Examination”, he said. 

“In places where uniform is prescribed, the students must mandatorily wear the uniform, and where uniform is not mandated, no student will be allowed to don any religious attire. The teachers coming to the examination centre do not have any uniforms mandated”, he informed. 

“The examination will be conducted from April 22 to May 18 in a simple manner similar to how the SSLC examination was conducted. A total of 6, 84, 255 students have registered for the exams. There are 3, 46, 936 young boys and 3, 37, 319 young girls among them”, he informed. 

The exam will be conducted from 10.15 am to 1.30 pm, he informed.

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Islamabad (PTI): At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed on Friday in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, according to media reports.

The blast occurred at 8.35 am near a school at the Civil Hospital Chowk of the Mastung district of the province, Dawn newspaper reported.

“It appears that an IED (improvised explosive device) attached to a motorcycle was detonated near a police mobile,” Kalat Division Commissioner Naeem Bazai was quoted as saying in the report.

“So far, seven individuals have been killed, including five school students,” Bazai said. At least 22 people were injured in the attack.

Most of those injured were schoolchildren, Geo News reported, adding that they were shifted to a nearby hospital.

A police van and several auto-rickshaws were damaged in the explosion, according to the report.

An emergency was declared across all Quetta hospitals after the blast, the report said quoting the provincial health department spokesperson, adding that all doctors, pharmacists, staff nurses and other medical staff were summoned.