GURDASPUR: Dr Balwinder Singh, principal of Guru Nanak College, Batala, who is native of Lakhanpal village near here, has been appointed as secretary, Punjab School Education Board. He served as college lecturer in English at various colleges run by the SGPC for 21 years. He also has experience of working ...

LUDHIANA: The Punjab government, which has announced “completely free” schooling for girls, has not mentioned school board fee in its notification listing the various charges waived. As a consequence, girls in classes 10 and 12 continue to pay the Rs 500 board fee per semester. Among the fees waived by the notification ...

CHANDIGARH: The high court has granted 10 days to the Punjab School Education Board to place before the court original records of the case pertaining to mass copying in schools during the Class 12 exam in 2006. The matter came up for hearing before a division bench headed by justice ...

LUDHIANA: As many as 1 lakh Class-12 students will appear in the compartment exam to be conducted in September by the Punjab School Education Board. Of these, 48,317 students have compartment in English and 10,705 in mathematics. Compared to last year, the pass percentage has dropped by 10.02% in English (from ...

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) legislator Harish Rai phanda on Wednesday resigned from the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, paving the way for his appointment as the, chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC). "I have resigned from the state assembly and the resignation has been accepted," Dhanda told Hindustan Times. Following this, ...

LUDHIANA: The Punjab government's decision to open a library in every village in the state has got a mixed reaction. "The idea is basically good, but I doubt the government's intentions," said associate professor Arvind Malhotra of the postgraduate department of commerce and business management, Arya College, Ludhiana and ex-member of ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday issued a notice of motion to the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) on a petition med by one Rouble Sharma, accusing the commission of discriminating against a section of candidates appearing for the state civil services combined competitive examination, 2009. Sharma submitted ...

AMRITSAR (Punjab) : Guru Nanak Dev University will conduct a combined entrance test on June 22 to select students for five-year integrated MBA and MCA courses for the session 2011-12. The online submission of application forms will be from May 24 to June 15. "Serving people are not eligible to apply," ...

SAS NAGAR: A school whose students are found cheating will be blacklisted and will not hold any exam henceforth, Punjab education minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan said on Friday, laying down a new, severe set of rules. Sekhwan passed on the instructions to district education officers at a meeting at the Punjab ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday announced to set up sports wings in all the 11 Adarsh Schools being run for over two decades by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB). Presiding over a meeting with the principals of the schools here, Badal directed the PSEB chairman to ...

SAS NAGAR: For sake of convenience, the newly-appointed employees of the education department will be allotted the newest station from their house, Punjab education minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan said on Monday. Sekhwan, who was interacting with mediapersons at Punjab School Education Board in Phase-8 of SAS Nagar, said, "We had received ...

MOHALI: Punjab School Education Board, SAS Nagar, has cancelled the results of 1,152 private students of class 10 and class 12 who submitted fake certificates for appearing in the first semester examination held in September this year. Of these, 763 wrote their class 10 exams and 389 their exams for class ...

SAS NAGAR: The Punjab School Education Board on Monday declared the results of the Senior Secondary Intermediate Examination (Class 12), semester I, held in September this year. AB per the board, 2, 79,503 students wrote the exam, of which 2, 02,224 were declared pass. The pass percentage was 72.35%. Board chairperson ...