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  The Central Board of Secondary Education (SBSE) had referred the matter to subject experts on Sunday and sought their feedback. The CBSE on Monday dropped a comprehension passage and the accompanying questions from the Class-10 English exam and decided to award full marks for it to students, following an outrage over the board allegedly promoting “gender stereotyping” and supporting “regressive notions”. The  Central Board of Secondary Education  (SBSE) had referred the matter to subject experts on Sunday and sought their feedback. In the Class-10 exam conducted on Saturday, the question paper carried a comprehension passage with sentences such as emancipation of women destroyed the parents’ authority over the children” and “it was only by accepting her husband’s way that a mother could gain obedience over the younger ones”, among others.Excerpts from the passage have gone viral on social media platforms with users calling out the board for supporting “misogynistic” and...

Examinations have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed CBSE to decide within eight weeks if it would refund the examination fees taken for class 10 and class 12 board examinations as they have been cancelled due to the  COVID-19 pandemic .  Justice Prateek Jalan ordered CBSE to consider as representation a petition by Deepa Joseph, mother of a Class 10 student studying in a CBSE affiliated school here, who had paid Rs 2,100 as examination fee. CBSE’s decision would be open to challenge if the Joseph is not satisfied, the court clarified as it disposed of the petition. There has to be reasonableness on both sides, the judge adde Justice Jalan also recorded that the parties had no objection to him hearing the petition even though he would be beneficiary of the petition on account of his son being in Class 12. Advocate Robin Raju, for Joseph, contended that since the board examination have been cancelled, at least ...