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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Strikes on 3 more alleged drug boats kill 11 people, US military says
Washington (AP): The US military said Tuesday that it carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest days of the Trump administration's monthslong campaign.
The series of strikes conducted Monday brought the death toll to at least 145 people since the administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels since early September.
Like most of the military's statements on the 42 known strikes, US Southern Command said it targeted alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. It said two vessels carrying four people each were struck in the eastern Pacific Ocean, while a third boat with three people was hit in the Caribbean Sea.
The military did not provide evidence that the vessels were ferrying drugs but posted videos that showed boats being destroyed.
President Donald Trump has said the US is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”
