The council had to devise a methodology to assess the candidates as the school-leaving exams were scrapped this year because of Covid...

The increase in the number of seats was made as an exception considering the 100 per cent success rate in Madhyamik...

An official of the school education department said “the ground situation, as far as Covid is concerned, has changed drastically between April 30 and mid-May”...

Decision comes hours after Bengal government imposed total lockdown till May 30...

Syllabuses would be slashed by 30 to 35% as on-campus classes could not be held because of the pandemic...