Rush Hour: CBSE top officials transferred, India rejects third-party mediation in Nepal talks & more

The chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education, Rahul Singh, and its Secretary Himanshu Gupta have been transferred. This came in the wake of allegations of widespread mismanagement in the Class 12 board examination results.

A one-member inquiry committee chaired by S Radha Chauhan, the head of the Capacity Building Commission, has been set up to look into the procurement of On-Screen Marking Services by the board. In the last two weeks, several discrepancies have been flagged in the On-Screen Marking evaluation process.

Separately, the CBSE said that its newly-launched Class 12 re-evaluation portal faced a “barrage of cyberattacks”, even as students said that they faced technical problems while trying to access the website. Read on.

There is no role for any third party in bilateral matters between India and Nepal, said the Ministry of External Affairs. The statement came in response to a question about Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s statement that Kathmandu had held discussions with China and the United Kingdom regarding the Kalapani-Limpiadhura-Lipulekh region.

Randhir Jaiswal, the external affairs ministry spokesperson, said that while close to 98% of the India-Nepali boundary has been demarcated, there are some “unresolved segments” along the border.

He added that “there are cases of cross-border occupation and encroachment of no man's land in demarcated...

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