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Breaking records, Girls top JEE Main 2024 For the first time in history, a girl bagged the title of Indore city topper in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main. The inspirational girl is Shrestha Goyal with AIR 167 with 99.99%. Shrestha, though not officially announced by NTA, has also scored highest marks among girls in JEE Main 2024 and hence is girls topper in state. Second highest rank in the city was earned by Rishit Mittal. His rank is 226. Third place was also bagged by a girl named Riddhi Motwani, who scored 99.9859% and was ranked 326 in All India Ranking (AIR) of the examination. The combined result of two JEE Main conducted in 2024 were released on Thursday. For Academic Session 2024-25, NTA conducted the JEE (Main) – 2024 in two Sessions i.e. Session 1 (January 2024) and Session 2 (April 2024). This year, JEE (Main) – 2024 Session 2 was conducted at 571 unique examination centres in 319 cities including 22 cities outside India. This year 14 lakh 15 thousand 110 students app...

MPBSE Class 10 Results: Passing % of Indore @64.25%, Jahnvi makes it to state’s merit list Indore outshone some other districts in Indore division in Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) board examinations of class 10 by averaging to third highest passing percentage. MPBSE released class 10 board results on Wednesday. Indore’s passing percentage was 64.25 percent, which was the highest the state. Jhabua inked second highest passing percentage with 69.56 percent. First place was bagged by Alirajpur with passing percentage of 71.22 percent. The state’s average passing percentile was 62.61 percent. Topper’s corner Jahnvi Gupta of Karnataka Vidya Niketan stood first in Indore in class 10 result of the MP Board. She also stood 10 in the state with 97 per cent. She scored 99 in Mathematics proving her stereotype surrounding her that quote ‘Girls’ aren’t great at Math & logics!’ Her success inspires all the other girls. Khushi Sandawa, daughter of Pravin Sandawa, came in se...

MPBSE Class 12 Results: Passing % of Indore @76.27% Indore outshone all other districts in the Indore division in Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) board examinations of class 12 by averaging to highest passing percentage. MPBSE released class 12 board results on Wednesday. Indore’s passing percentage was 76.27 percent, which was the highest the state. Indore was followed by Jhabua with passing percentage of 72.79 percent. The third in the state was Alirajpur averaging a little over average passing percentage of state at 69.97 percent. The state’s average passing percentile was 69.04 percent. State’s third, Indore’s Topper! Falguni Pawar, a student of Pink Flower School, Nanda Nagar, made the state’s topper’s list. She scored 481 marks out of 500 and was awarded third place in the state in commerce group merit list. Further, among blind/mentally challenged children with special need Aditya Humane, son of Diwakar Humane, became the state’s topper. He scored 454 marks o...

Race to finish syllabus: CBSE schools to run board classes till May 10 CBSE’s instruction on starting new academic session from April shoots summer vacations short Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is unsure of conducting two board examinations and time-lines as it would require that entire syllabus to be completed by September, but a few schools in Indore seem in a rush as they will be conducting classes till May 10 for board classes. With the cloud cover controlling the hiking summer temperatures, local administration might even allow that! However, this would hike the pressure on students and cut down their summer break shorter. Board examinations have become a much more daunting time for students with the recent announcements from CBSE. Earlier, some schools conducted class 9 and class 11 exams in February and started board classes from March. Taking an action against it, CBSE had sent out a circular stating, “Attempting to complete an entire year's worth of I coursew...

This year has been a year of delays and stress for new schools that plan to open their doors for students in Indore. Over 75 new schools had filed their application for affiliation to the state board since December, but the process was delayed at the end of district project coordinator (DPC) resulting in still pending approvals till the end of April. As per protocol, all the approvals or rejections must be finalised latest by mid of April, but there was no update on the portal until recently. "There were some issues that we faced in our department, but we are working to resolve them," district project coordinator (dpc) Shanta Swami said. She added that the process was delayed, but is picking up speed. Schools whose recognition was delayed have been raising complaints and trying to approach dpc. They claim that dpc never responds to them and often registers a case against them, if they speak against her. A patron of the MP private school association requested anonymity and men...

Free Press, the leading English news daily of Central India, felicitated school teachers who have gone beyond their call of duty to educate students of the down-trodden segment of the society in their premises on Sunday. Hundreds of teachers attended the event commemorating Ambedkar Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. A teacher who changed the life of Indore’s Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargav: CBSE resource person Manoj Bajpai was the chief guest of the event. Teach by choice, build our future “Many teachers go unrecognised. Our importance as teachers depends entirely on our students. Not many people knew Ramakant, until Sachin Tendulkar mentioned his teacher. We should become teachers by choice and profession. I had an offer when I was studying. I was asked to become a math teacher, but I wanted to be another professional. I was told that it's a tough job. I was 20 years old. I took it up thinking it will be a short day time job. I received so much love from st...

CBSE new exam pattern for class 11 & class 12 50% competency based questions, no change for class 9 & 10 Practical and analytical skills gain higher focus as students will face 50 percent competency based questions in central board of secondary education (CBSE) examinations for class 11 and class 12. The board released a new exam patt​ern for class 11 and Class 12 for the academic session 2024-25. “The objective of this modification is to improve students’ practical and analytical abilities,” UK Jha, CBSE Coordinator, said. He added that this change is only applicable for class 11 and class 12. “Class 9 and class 10 examinations format remains same,” Jha said. The board also released design of specific disciplines can also be found in the Sample Question Papers and the Curriculum document published for the academic session 2024–2025. Director of CBSE (academics) Joseph Emanuel said, “The redesigned structure gives competency-based questions more weight; they now account for 50%...

SGSITS students made digital stethoscope at 1/10 cost! Students of Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS) researched and made digital stethoscopes at one tenth of the usual price of one. A digital stethoscope usually costs around Rs 20,000 and the students prepared one under the cost of Rs 2,000. In fact, if produced in bulk, the price can easily be brought down to Rs 1,500, as per the team of developers. The team of students include: Narayan Chouhan, Sandeep Sharma, Naman Jain, Naman Sahu, and Khyati Shastri. The team of students was guided by IT department head Dr Lalit Purohit, in-charge professor Puja Gupta; and biomedical department head Dr PP Bansod with Vinay Manurkar The students explained how the stethoscope would help medicine in India: Why digital stethoscopes? Sound levels with acoustic stethoscopes are rather low. The digital stethoscope addresses this concern by electronically enhancing bodily noises. The electronic transmission of sound sign...

Prayers offered in temples on Sheetala Saptami following Holi celebrations Women and men gathered in goddess temples across the city and worshipped Sheetala Mata on Monday to wish for coolness in life, health and well-being of the family. On the seven days of Holi, women worship Sheetala Mata on Sheetala Saptami festival which falls on the Saptami Tithi of Krishna Paksha of Chaitra month. There was a huge crowd of women in the Sheetal Mata Temple built at Shri Shree Vidyadham, MTH Compound, Sheetla Mata Bazaar, Marimata Square, Annapurna Mata Temple from midnight, which continued till sunrise. Besides, there were queues for worship in all the Shitala Mata temples of the city. Offered food prepared the day before After worshiping in Shitala Mata temple, food that was prepared a day before was offered to the mother and the devotees also consumed the same food. Sheetala Ashtami festival is celebrated in some families. This festival will be celebrated on Tuesday. In those families, Shitala...

Schools reopened with first-day fest celebrations The education session 2024-25 for government schools and some higher classes started on Monday. Students were welcomed with tilak and prayers for their better future in government schools. The results of class 9 and 11 were also released on Monday. District Education Officer Manglesh Vyas said that the new education session started in private and government schools recognized by Mashiman from Monday. “First-day festival was celebrated on the first day,” Vyas said. During the fest, students were welcomed by applying tilak. Schools have also been asked to decorate. School timings remained the same as before. The admission process will continue in CM Rice schools till April 6. School bus service will start in CM Rise schools Malharashram Principal Devendra Ramish said that the first-school day festival was celebrated with joy and music. Classes will be conducted from Tuesday. The process of new admission will also be completed by April 6. ...

Indore: Beware, conserve water & hydrate More heatwave days, high temperatures, below normal rainfall As we step into April, it’s time to hydrate and prepare our body for the upcoming heat waves. The India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) issued its seasonal report on Monday stating that during the 2024 hot weather season (April to June (AMJ)), above-normal maximum temperatures are likely over most parts of the country, except some parts of east and northeast India and pockets of northwest India where normal to below-normal maximum temperatures are likely. “Above normal monthly minimum temperatures are most likely over most parts of India, except one or two pockets of northwest and northeast India where normal to below-normal minimum temperatures are likely during April 2024,” said the report. Further, a warning is issued noting that for the month of April 2024, above-normal maximum temperatures are likely over most parts of the country. However, i...