Month: January 2020

IBPS SO Prelims Result 2019 Declared on ibps.in

Source – timesnownews.com

IBPS has announced the IBPS Specialist Officer, SO Prelims 2019 Result. The result status for the candidates who have appeared in the preliminary examination would be available on ibps.in from late evening today. Kindly note, only the result status would be updated at present. The marks/ scores would be released as a later date. IBPS SO Mains 2019 Admit Card for those who qualify would be released in a couple of days. Link to check the result would be provided once activated. 

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection will declare IBPS SO Prelims Result 2019 soon. As per sources, the result will be released in a day or two. Candidates can check their result on the official site of IBPS at ibps.in. The preliminary examination for IBPS SO 2019 was conducted on December 28 and December 29, 2019, at various centers across the nation.

Candidates who will qualify the preliminary examination will have to appear for the main examination. The preliminary examination comprised of 150 questions and the maximum marks are 125. The medium of the exam is English and Hindi and the duration of examination is 40 minutes. To check the preliminary exam result, candidates can follow these simple steps given below.

IBPS SO Prelims Result 2019: How to check 

  • Visit the official site of IBPS at ibps.in.
  • Click on IBPS SO Prelims Result 2019 link available on the home page.
  • Enter the login credentials and your result will be displayed on the screen.
  • Check the result and download it.
  • Keep a hard copy of the same for further need.

There will be a penalty for wrong answers marked in the Objective Tests. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate one fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty to arrive at corrected score.

The main examination will be conducted on January 25, 2020, at various centers across the country. The professional knowledge test for Law Officer, IT Officer, Agriculture Field Officer, HR/Personnel Officer, and Marketing Officer will comprise of 60 questions for 60 marks. For more related details candidates can visit the official site of IBPS.

IBPS Clerk Mains Admit Card 2019 released: See how to download.

Source – indiatoday.in

IBPS Clerk Mains Admit Card 2019 has been released today. Candidates who are registered to appear for the IBPS mains written examination will have to download the admit card through the official site of IBPS at ibps.in.

The IBPS Clerk Mains 2019 examination will be held on January 19, 2020, across the country. IBPS Clerk 2019-20 recruitment drive will fill up 12075 clerical posts in various public sector banks.

The registration process for IBPS Clerk exam 2019 was started on September 17 and ended on October 9, 2019. Candidates who want to check for more related details can visit the official site of IBPS.

IBPS Clerk Mains 2019: Exam pattern

The main examination will consist of 200 marks for 190 questions. The subjects included in the mains examination are General/ Financial Awareness, General English, Reasoning Ability and Computer Aptitude and Quantitative Aptitude. Candidates can download the admit card by following these simple steps given below.

IBPS Clerk Mains Admit Card 2019: How to download

Step 1: Visit the official site of IBPS at ibps.in.

Step 2: Click on IBPS Clerk Mains Admit Card 2019 link available on the home page.

Step 3: A new page will open where candidates will have to enter the login credentials.

Step 4: Your admit card will be displayed on the screen.

Step 5: Check admit card and download it.

Step 6: Keep a hard copy of the same for further need.

Jharkhand school sets example on cleanliness.

Source – outlookindia.com

Jharkhand, Jan 7 (IANS) A school in Jharkhand”s Palamu district has been chosen by the Niti Aayog for undertaking best practices in clean water sanitation and inclusive infrastructure.

The Dulsulma Middle School in the Palamu district has set an example of cleanliness and overall development before the country, even as many schools in the state are deprived of basic facilities.

Niti Aayog on Twitter shared the pictures of this school and appreciated their efforts made for cleanliness, health and overall development in the school.

In the tweet, the Aayog said: “Clean as well as healthy…..The method adopted by this school is very good and like a mass movement for the advanced future of the district.”

The Aayog has appreciated the way the school has made efforts to reach out to all sections of the students. The Hindi – English alphabet is colourfully depicted on the walls of the classroom so that the little children learn it the fun way. The school has special arrangements for the disabled students too, keeping in view of their seating and toilet needs.

The school also has maintained clean tap-water, library and regular electricity, besides focus on maintaining green cover on the premises.

The credit for this rejuvenation of the school goes to Anita Bhengra, the headmistress of the school.

Bhengra, who has served for nearly 15 years in the school, has vowed to develop this school on the lines of a private school. She has made health and cleanliness the priority.

Though, over the years, the number of teachers in the school has declined, but this has not affected her spirit. “Colleagues like Anil Kumar Gupta retired, Arpan Kumar Gupta was sent to another school and then the Principle Mrityunjay Pathak was transferred. But, a team of students was prepared and they have kept the work on,” said Bhengra.

She said that English was introduced in the school, and activities involving the students like group songs, solo songs, painting, etc. were added. “With the help of the senior students, we started teaching smaller students as only two employed teachers and one assistant teacher were left in the school.”

The school gained prominence when a senior teacher, Arpan Kumar Gupta, who has now retired, uploaded the pictures of some innovations and experiments being done in the school on social media.

The efforts for clean and good education has been appreciated by the Palamu district administration also.

Deputy Commissioner of Palamu, Shantanu Kumar Agarhari told IANS: “District administration would honour Anita Bhengra by giving her a citation. Hope other schools too would learn from this school and do the same.”

Rabindra Nath Mahato elected as Jharkhand Assembly Speaker.

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RANCHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MLA Rabindra Nath Mahato was on Tuesday unanimously elected as the Speaker of the Jharkhand Assembly.

Chief Minister Hemant Soren proposed Mahato’s name for the post which was seconded by JMM MLA Champai Soren during the second of the three-day session of the Assembly.

Born on January 12, 1960, Mahato was first elected in 2005 from Nala seat but lost the subsequent elections before winning it again in the 2014 and 2019 polls.

All the newly-elected MLAs in the 81-member House were administered oath by pro-term Speaker Stephen Marandi on Monday.

The JMM-Congress-RJD alliance won 47 seats while the BJP could bag only 25 seats in the Assembly elections which were held in five phases from November 30 to December 20 last year.

The results were declared on December 23 last year.

College student abducted, gang-raped in Patna: Police

Source – hindustantimes.com

A 19-year-old college student was allegedly abducted on gun-point and gang-raped by four persons in Patna late on Monday night, police officials said. Two of the accused have been arrested, officials said.

Police said that the four men abducted the woman in their car at the Boring Road intersection in the state capital on Monday evening. The woman filed a case, naming the four accused, on Tuesday.

“The woman was forced to get inside a vehicle on gun point by the accused when she came out of a restaurant at around 6.30 pm (on Monday) under SK Puri police station limits. She alleged that they took her to a vacant flat at an unknown place and repeatedly raped her there,” the FIR states.

Two of the accused, the woman alleged, threatened her of dire consequences if she reported the crime to the police. Then, she said, the accused took her to the car again, thrashed her and pushed her out of the vehicle near a mall under Patliputra police station area.

The woman filed the case with the Patna’s Women police station on Tuesday.

“Two of the accused have been arrested by police,” said Patna superintendent of police Upendra Sharma. “The spot of the incident has been sealed and a team of forensics experts has collected evidences,” he said.

Police officials said one of the accused was trying to force the woman into a relationship and was stalking her. The station house officer of the women’s police station Arti Jaiswal said that preliminary investigation suggested the woman knew the accused. A case was registered under Sections 376 D (gang-rape), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Arms Act, Jaiswal said.

A medical examination of the woman has been conducted and the report is awaited.

“The woman’s statement will be recorded under Section 164 of CrPC before a judicial magistrate on Wednesday and another medical test will be performed at the PMCH,” said the SHO.

SSP Patna said they were scanning the CCTV footage around the Boring Road intersections and the Patliputra area, which, he said, was the likely route the accused took after abducting her.

This is the second gang-rape incident in the state capital within a month. On December 13 last, a Patna University student was allegedly gang-raped by four men. Two of the accused, including a friend of the woman, surrendered in the court while two others were arrested from separate places.

70 Officers May Face Action For Lapses In Running Bihar Shelter Homes.

Source – ndtv.com

Patna: Twenty-five Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers are among over 70 officials in Bihar who could face action for lapses in managing shelter homes in the state that was shook by sexual exploitation of over 40 girls at such facilities in 2018.

The lapses tumbled out one after another during a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as it dug deep into the case for one-and-a-half years, officials said. The CBI has asked the Bihar government to act against the officials and has also informed the Supreme Court, officials said.

The CBI in an affidavit to the Supreme Court said it has completed investigation into all the 17 cases liked to the Muzaffarpur shelter home rape cases.

Young girls were forced to dance to vulgar songs, sedated and raped at a government-run shelter in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur in a massive sex scandal with links to influential politicians and bureaucrats. A human skeleton – believed to be the remains of one of the victims – was found in October 2018 at a cremation ground in the district’s Sikandarpur area.

More grisly details are found in the chargesheet filed by the CBI against the main accused, the politically well-connected Brajesh Thakur, who operated the shelter for several years.

“We have got the report. We will take action under the law. The Nitish Kumar government does not falsely implicate or free anyone,” Bihar Social Welfare Minister Krishnanandan Verma told NDTV.

Nivedita Jha, the petitioner in the case, said the findings of the CBI so far are “prima facie”. “It is said the criminal act part of the case is yet to be proved. I feel they need to investigate this care more thoroughly,” Ms Jha told NDTV.

The state government, however, is yet to decide on what kind of action it should take against the 25 IAS and 45 state civil service officers. Sources said in most of the cases, the officers could be let off with a warning or one or two increments in their salaries could be blocked.

Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath To Launch Pro-Citizenship Law Drive In Bihar.

Source – ndtv.com

Patna: The BJP is set to raise the pitch in Bihar in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, with two of its top leaders flying down to the state to address public meetings and raise awareness about the contentious legislation, a senior party official said on Monday.

Union Home Minister and party chief Amit Shah is scheduled to address people in Vaishali district on January 16, two days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath holds a public meeting in Gaya, state BJP vice-president Devesh Kumar told PTI.

A massive door-to-door campaign is currently underway in the state, after its launch on Sunday with rallies addressed in Patna by Union minister of state for Home Nityanand Rai and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.

Notably, Bihar witnessed massive anti-CAA protests in the recent past, including statewide bandhs called on different days by Left parties and the RJD and its allies.

A demonstration staged by a motley group of student outfits in December had caught the police off guard as the agitators went on the rampage, setting on fire a police outpost and many vehicles at Kargil Chowk, a stone’s throw from the district police chief’s office and the collectorate.

Meanwhile, the state BJP mocked Pavan K Varma, the disgruntled national general secretary of the JD(U), for his open letter in protest against “unilateral announcement” on National Population Register (NPR) exercise by the Deputy Chief Minister.

PM Modi had made the disclosure at a press conference on Saturday and issued a stern warning that “administrative and punitive action” will be taken against officials, found guilty of dereliction of duty.

Bihar’s Sumant Parimal wins Forbes online competition, becomes first Indian to win.

Source – indiatoday.in

Recently, Sumant Parimal of Bihar’s capital Patna has topped the online competition of IT professionals and Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts by the Forbes magazine. As per reports, Sumant is the only Indian to win in this competition.

According to reports, Sumant Parimal has left behind the famous IT and AI experts from America, Europe, Asia and Australia in the online competition which lasted for almost two months. Sumant’s rating was the highest, forcing him to top the panel of global experts.

About Sumant Parimal:

Sumant hails from Patna’s Raja Bazar and holds an MTech from the University of Mysore and an MBA from Xavier Labor Research Institute School of Management (XLRI), Jamshedpur. He was an officer in Bokaro Steel Plant for many years. After this, he did research in America for five years.

‘5 Jewels Research’

Sumant Parimal has formed his own IT company named as ‘5 Jewels Research’, which is working on the development of artificial intelligence and robotics technology in India.

Recently, Sumant Parimal has tied up with the Uttar Pradesh government for setting up a robotic technology park in Greater Noida.

Artificial intelligence:

Artificial intelligence is becoming an integral part of smart ICT based apps targeted for digital learning. The quality of teaching learning depends on the academic and non academic support provided to the student by the institute and faculties. By using the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, today’s teaching apps can actually predict in advance the academic and non academic support a student would need.

For example, some of the smart learning analysis apps can analyse the past performance of the student, performance of similar students in similar categories, and the ongoing continuous monitoring of performance of the student and would predict the support the student would require in the next semesters.

Bihar Police SI 2020 Application Process closing Today on bpssc.bih.nic.in

Source – pagalguy.com

Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC) has already issued recruitment notification for the post of Enforcement Sub Inspector (ESI) on 03rd December 2019. There are around 212 posts released for the Sub Inspector. Candidates who will be selected will be eligible to receive the salary of Rs 35,400 to Rs 1,12,400.

Important Dates

Candidates who are interested in Police vacancies should note that the online application for the Bihar Police SI 2020 is closing today. The application process began from 03rd December 2019 and the last date to submit the application form is 06th January 2020.

The official notification has already been released earlier on the official website which is www.bpssc.bih.nic.in.

Application Fee:

The application fees would also be needed to be submitted along with the application form. The application fees for the General, EWS, EBC/BC category candidates is Rs 700 and the application fee for the SC/ST candidates is Rs 400.

Eligibility Criteria

Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC) has mentioned some eligibility criteria to select the candidates for the Sub Inspector. Candidates can check below the eligibility criteria mentioned by BPSSC:

Education Qualification:

Candidates must be graduate from any recognized university or equivalent degree.

Age Limit:

The age limit for the candidates are as follows for Male and female Candidates:

  • General Category candidates should be between 21 to 42 years of age
  • EWS category Candidates should be between 21 to 42 years of age
  • BC/EBC category candidates should be between 21 to 45 years of age but for female candidates in this category is 21 to 42 years of age
  • SC/ST category candidates should be between 21 to 47 years of age

Candidates would be selected on the basis of written test which will be preliminary exam and main examination. Candidates who will clear the written test will have to appear for the Physical Endurance Test and Interview.

At 650, Bihar leads in extreme weather deaths in 2019: IMD report

Source – business-standard.com

Bihar suffered the most – with 650 deaths – due to various extreme weather conditions in the country last year, a compilation by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) from media and government reports showed.

An official statement issued by the IMD showed that almost 1,560 people died in 2019 due to unusual weather events.

These include heavy rain and floods, heat wave, lightning, thunderstorm and hailstorm.

The year 2019 was the seventh warmest recorded in the country since 1901, the statement showed. This was substantially lower than the highest warming observed over India during 2016, it added.

In 2019, the IMD statement said that eight cyclonic storms formed over the seas against the normal of five. “Heavy rain and flood-related incidents reportedly claimed over 850 lives from different parts of the country during the pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon periods. Of these, 306 lives were lost from Bihar alone,136 from Maharashtra, 107 from Uttar Pradesh, 88 from Kerala, 80 from Rajasthan and 43 from Karnataka,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, in a related event, the Centre on Monday approved the release of Rs 5,908.56 crore to seven states, including Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Assam, as assistance for the damage caused due to various calamities last year.

The home ministry, in a statement, said the decision was taken at a meeting of a high-level committee (HLC), chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah.

The HLC approved additional central assistance of Rs 5,908.56 crore to seven states from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF). Of this, Rs 616.63 crore will be given to Assam, Rs 284.93 crore to Himachal Pradesh, Rs 1,869.85 crore to Karnataka, Rs 1,749.73 crore to Madhya Pradesh, Rs 956.93 crore to Maharashtra, Rs 63.32 to Tripura and Rs 367.17 crore to Uttar Pradesh for floods, landslides or cloudburst during the monsoon season, the statement said.

Earlier, the central government released an interim financial assistance of Rs 3,200 crore to four states – Rs 1,200 crore to Karnataka, Rs 1,000 crore to Madhya Pradesh, Rs 600 crore to Maharashtra and Rs 400 crore to Bihar.

During 2019-20, the government released Rs 8,068.33 crore to 27 states as central share from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).