Rush Hour: Siddaramaiah quits as Karnataka CM, Centre takes responsibility for CBSE glitches & more

Congress leader Siddaramaiah resigned as the chief minister of Karnataka, saying that he was following the party leadership’s decision. “I am making way for a new chief minister,” he added.

Siddaramaiah said that he had submitted his resignation letter to the governor’s office and that it would be accepted in due course. He said that the Congress leadership had offered him a Rajya Sabha seat but that he declined it as he wants to remain in state politics.

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The Centre acknowledges discrepancies in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s On-Screen Marking evaluation process and accepts responsibility for them, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. He said that strict action would be taken against anyone found “intentionally responsible” for irregularities in the process.

The on-screen marking system for evaluating Class 12 answer sheets has come under criticism in the past two weeks following complaints about alleged glitches and irregularities during the evaluation process. Several students alleged that scanned copies of answer sheets uploaded by the board did not match their handwriting, raising concerns about possible answer sheet mismatches.

However, Pradhan claimed that it is a globally-accepted and “student-centric” system aimed at increasing transparency. He said that experts from the Indian Institutes of...

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