Law exam postponed fearing paper leak

July 24th, 2009 KHADIPAR - Over a hundred people were hospitalised late last night in the Khadipar town of Maharashtra's Thane District following when a poisonous gas leak from an aging chemical factory. According to sources over 35,000 people have been evacuated from Khadipar.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese woman was caught with high tech devices while taking an exam for a driver's licence, when a receiver fell out of her mouth due to nervousness. Huang, from Quanzhou, Fujian province, was found by a test supervisor to be writing on her test paper without looking up at the computer screen to see the questions.

June 11th, 2009 SHIMLA - A reputed coaching institute here is under the scanner after its students secured the top 20 positions in the Combined Pre-medical Entrance Test conducted by Himachal Pradesh University last month. Twenty-two students of Vidyapeeth Coaching Centre have secured merit in the test, in which over 6,000 students appeared.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday rejected reports of an alleged leak of its prestigious MBBS entrance examination's question papers. "No absolutely, not.

May 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It's not just the Common Admission Test (CAT) that will go online this year. Delhi University (DU) will become one of the first central universities in the country to conduct an online examination next month for its undergraduate science students.

March 21st, 2009 GHAZIABAD - An 18-year-old girl was killed and four of her classmates were injured when the autorickshaw they were riding in was hit by a private bus coming from the opposite direction Friday, the police said. The girls were on their way to Adhyatmik Nagar to appear in their Class 12 board exam.

March 17th, 2009 LUCKOW - Education officials in Uttar Pradesh were in for a shock when they found students of Class 8 and 9 answering question papers at an under-graduate exam in Azamgarh district, officials said Tuesday. The school students were caught solving the paper with the help of invigilators Monday when officials of the administration and education department raided two private colleges in Azamgarh following a tip-off.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Thousands of students sat for their Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) maths exam in centres across the country and abroad Saturday. Many found the paper 'tough' while others felt the questions were 'indirect'.

March 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hundreds of thousands of students sat for the class 10 and 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams in centres across the country and abroad Monday and many of them said they found the paper 'easy' and 'doable'. Many students, at a exam centre here, walked out with a smile on their faces and hugged their parents and teachers.

February 28th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand government postponed Saturday's Class 10 and 12 board examination following a strike by Maoist guerrillas. 'We have postponed the examination.

February 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Students appearing for the class 10 mathematics examination in Haryana were taken aback Tuesday when they were given a semester I question paper instead of the semester II paper they were expecting. Students at various centres of the Haryana School Education Board were given the wrong question paper, a board official said.

February 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - He's a railway ticket examiner but has four houses in this Uttar Pradesh capital. He was arrested in December as the alleged mastermind behind leaking exam papers of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) but was released on bail.

February 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh police has arrested 110 people for the leakage of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examination paper, police officials here said Sunday. While 16 of them were arrested for organising the scam, the other 94 were candidates who were to take the examinations.

February 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A total of 110 people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the leakage of Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) examination paper, police said Sunday. While 16 of them were charged with masterminding the racket, the others were said to be candidates who were to take the examinations.

January 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least eight coal miners were suffocated by a poison gas leak in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province Sunday, a media report said. The gas leak occurred early Sunday in a coal mine in the Mach area, some 50 km from the provincial capital Quetta, according to the private Geo News television channel.