SSLC examination for 2025 begins; first language paper held on day one
Bengaluru: The SSLC examinations, conducted by the Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB), started in as many as 2,818 centres across the state on Friday, with the first language paper, including Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, English and Sanskrit, being held on Day One.
As many as 8,96,447 students – 4,61,563 boys and 4,34,884 girls – from 15,881 high schools in Karnataka have enrolled for the examination.
The KSEAB has introduced web-streaming of the examination process, in order to prevent malpractices. In addition, tight security is provided to all examination centres. Further, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and other public transport agencies are providing the students free bus service till the examination centres.
Minister for Primary Education Madhu Bangarappa paid a visit to the Karnataka Public School (KPS) examination centre in Malleswaram and offered roses to the examination candidates as a welcome gesture. In addition, he inspected the arrangements made by the officials at the examination centre.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who spoke about the SSLC examinations on Thursday, said that, unlike during the period of the Covid pandemic, the examination candidates will not be given grace marks. He added that he had opposed the move to award students grace marks in 2024.
He had, however, assured that the students answering the examinations would be provided free transport facility.
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'Ab kya hoga, ye rab jane...': Tharoor takes dig at failed US-Iran talks in Pakistan
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New Delhi (PTI): Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday took a swipe at the "failed" US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan with an Urdu couplet, saying only god knows now what will happen.
"Ab kya hoga, ye rab jane; Na woh mane, na ye mane (only god knows what will happen now as both sides did not agree)," Tharoor said on X, tagging a post-talks video clip of US Vice President J D Vance, who led the American delegation at the negotiations in Islamabad.
The United States and Iran failed to reach a peace deal at their historic 21-hour talks in Pakistan, leaving the fate of a tenuous two-week ceasefire in doubt, with both sides attempting to hold each other responsible for the collapse of the negotiations.
अब क्या होगा, ये रब जाने
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 13, 2026
ना वो माने, ना ये माने https://t.co/DYrXpa7C8h
Vance said the Iranian side did not accept Washington's terms for ending the war even as the US presented its "final and best offer".
Hours after the talks collapsed, US President Donald Trump said on social media that the negotiations with Tehran failed as "Iran is unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions".
Trump said the US Navy will actively interdict any vessel in international waters found to have paid tolls to Iran for transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route that handles roughly 20 per cent of global oil and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas).
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of the Iranian negotiation team, said it is for the US to decide whether it can "earn our trust or not".
The Iranian foreign ministry, without elaborating, said the US side resorted to "excessive" and "illegal demands".
The failure to reach an agreement has dimmed the prospect of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to stabilise the global energy marke
