Mumbai: Man desecrates Shiva idol after failing exam Mumbai: Two brothers from Panvel have been arrested for uploading a photograph on a social networking website depicting one of them desecrating a Shiva lingam. Police had arrested the duo while they were at a relatives house in Panvel on Thursday. Both the accused were laying low after the photo they uploaded went viral. According to the police, the accused, Munikumar Tirupati (23) had committed the act because of his fourth consecutive failure in his SSC exams, despite ardently praying to lord Shiva each time.

Police said Tirupati put little effort into studying, and believed that divine intervention would break his unlucky spell. However, when the latest SSC results were announced, Tirupati found out he had failed in his math exam yet again, following which he posted the photo on a popular social networking site with the help of his brother Laxman. The photograph was posted on July 19 from their native place at Golden Bridge in Chennai. Both brothers had gone to the lord Shiva temple and taken the photograph.

Nandkumar Mehetar, senior police inspector of Shahu Nagar police station, said, The main accused, Munikumar Tirupati had failed four times in maths. We arrested both brothers from Panvel where they were hiding in their relatives house. He further said, Till a few years back, Tirupati was a devotee of lord Shiva, and offered prayers every now and then, more regularly during his exams. After he failed again, he went to his native place at Golden Bridge 
03:24 PM, Aug 02, 2012

SSC exam racket busted in UP, 14 arrested Lucknow: With the arrest of 14 persons from the state capital and Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force on Sunday claimed to have busted an inter-state gang allegedly involved in helping people pass the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) exams using fraudulent means. While eight persons were arrested from Lucknow, six including the kingpin were arrested from Ghaziabad by the STF and local police teams during the SSC exams that were...  
08:05 PM, Jul 29, 2012

SSC: Junior Engineer (Civil & Elect) Exam & Syllabus Scheme of Examination The Examination will be conducted in two stages: Written Test (500 marks) Interview (100 marks) Paper I: Objective type General Intelligence & Reasoning General Awareness Part A: General Engineering (Civil & Structural) Part B: General Engineering (Electrical) Part C: General Engineering (Mechanical) Paper II Conventional Type Part A: General Engineering (Civil & Structural) Part B: General Engineering (Electrical) Part C: General Engineering (Mechanical) Note: 1. In Paper...  
06:56 PM, Jul 17, 2012

Staff Selection Commission Exam: Sub-Inspector (SI) The SSC conducts an All-India Examination for the following posts: 1. Sub-Inspector in Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) 2. Assistant Sub-Inspector in Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) 3. Sub-Inspector in Border Security Force (BSF) 4. Sub-Inspector in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) 5. Sub-Inspector in Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBPF) 6. Sub-Inspector in Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) 7. Intelligence Officer in Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Pay Scales and Other Information...  
06:46 PM, Jul 17, 2012

SSC Exams: Subordinate Account Service (SAS) The Staff Selection Commission holds recruitment of SAS Apprentices in CGDA Examination. The minimum Educational Qualification for it is a University Degree in Honours or MA/M.Sc./M.Com or Diploma of Chartered Accounts and Costs and Works Accounts from recognized institutes or organizations. The Examination comprises of written examination consisting of three papers followed by Interview. The recruitment is for the posts of SAS Apprentices, a Group 'C' Non-Gazette Ministerial post in...  
06:41 PM, Jul 17, 2012

SSC: Junior Translator (JTL) Exam Staff Selection Commission undertakes a combined all India open examination for the recruitment of Junior Translators (CSOLs) / Junior Hindi Translators (in Subordinate Offices). Scheme of the exam The examination consists of two parts: PART I: Written Examination, carrying 400 marks PART II: Personality Test (Interview), carrying 100 Marks. Names of posts, classification, pay band and grade pay, etc. included as per the groups for the Junior Translation Examination 1....  
05:55 PM, Jul 17, 2012

Mumbai: Deaf student scores 76% in Maharashtra SSC Mumbai: Years ago in 2004, MiD DAY gave Zainab Dalal, then a Std III student, some company on a frustrating and weary journey to several city schools, where she sought admission for her further studies. As one school after another rejected her applications and principals shut their doors firmly in her face, hope was all but lost. Zainab had just completed Std III from a school for hearing impaired students,...  
10:13 AM, Jun 14, 2012

Andhra Pradesh SSC results declared Hyderabad: The results for the Class 10 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations for the year 2012 were declared on Thursday. Around 12.8 lakh students had appeared for the exams held in March. The results were declared by Board of Secondary Education of Andhra Pradesh (BSEAP). The results were delayed twice earlier due to the change in schedule of Minister for Secondary Education K Parthasarathi, who was in Tirupati for by-poll...  
12:58 PM, May 24, 2012

New-look SSC exam centres in Hyderabad HYDERABAD: SSC students can write their examinations in comfort this year as the directorate of government examinations replaced 200 old examination centres with new ones as part of improving facilities at the centres. The directorate has also put all efforts to improve the facilities like providing better furniture and lighting system at all the examination centres.Speaking to newsmen here on Thursday, director of government examinations (DGE), Banala Manmad Reddy said...  
09:37 AM, Mar 23, 2012