Prisoners Exams

Ninety-five per cent of prisoners in Uttar Pradesh jails who sat for the Class 10 board examination cleared the test while the success rate in Class 12 was over 70 per cent.

With the objective of curbing paper leaks in government recruitment exams, the Gujarat Legislative Assembly has unanimously passed a Bill that provides for up to 10 years in prison for such malpractices.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that in the Indian legal system a convicted person also has the right to pursue his study and appear in examinations from the jail to enter into the mainstream of social life.

Four convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape case, whose execution is just a week away, earned nearly Rs 1,37,000 as prison wages during their stay in Delhi's Tihar Jail in the last seven years, sources have said, adding that they broke prison rules 23 times during this period.

Gangster Arun Gawli, serving life sentence for murder, has topped an exam based on Gandhian thoughts.

Seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur was murdered at the Ryan International School in Gurgaon by a Class 11 student who wanted his exams and a parent-teacher meeting postponed, the CBI said today, delivering a stunning twist to the case after questioning more than 125 students and teachers. The student was detained last evening for killing Pradyuman, wh...

More than 9.4 million Chinese students just sat for annual college entrance exams known as gaokao. The stakes are incredibly high, as admissions are largely based on exam scores. A high scorer streamlines his or her path toward a better education and better jobs - a low scorer may be destined for the opposite, made worse by shame.

The Michigan Uber driver charged with murdering six people last month in a shooting spree in the southwestern part of the state will undergo a competency exam, the prosecuting attorney said today.

Two people were today sentenced to three years in prison for cheating and forgery in first verdict in the high-profile Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or 'Vyapam' scam.

452 inmates of Taloja, Nagpur and Aurangabad jails in Maharashtra would appear for an examination on Gandhian thoughts on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Egypt's ousted former president Mohamed Mursi, who has been in detention for two years, is to undergo a medical examination at his request after he complained about prison food, state media said on Saturday.

Thanks to a social organisation working in Prison Welfare Service, at least 116 children of jail inmates in Odisha passed the Matriculation examinations this year.

In an indication of Gandhian thoughts continuing to inspire prisoners, 92 inmates of the Taloja Central Jail near Mumbai appeared for the Gandhi Peace Exam.

Seventy one under-trial prisoners will appear in UP board examination of 2013 from eight district jails of the state, an official said here today.

Seventy-seven people, including some parents, have been sent to prison in Bihar for allegedly helping students to cheat in an exam for government jobs, police said on Tuesday. A Special Task Force team busted the gang which used mobile phones to pass on answers to questions posed in examinations for the Mahadalit Vikas Mission.

Ninety-five per cent of prisoners in Uttar Pradesh jails who sat for the Class 10 board examination cleared the test while the success rate in Class 12 was over 70 per cent.

With the objective of curbing paper leaks in government recruitment exams, the Gujarat Legislative Assembly has unanimously passed a Bill that provides for up to 10 years in prison for such malpractices.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that in the Indian legal system a convicted person also has the right to pursue his study and appear in examinations from the jail to enter into the mainstream of social life.

Four convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape case, whose execution is just a week away, earned nearly Rs 1,37,000 as prison wages during their stay in Delhi's Tihar Jail in the last seven years, sources have said, adding that they broke prison rules 23 times during this period.

Gangster Arun Gawli, serving life sentence for murder, has topped an exam based on Gandhian thoughts.

Seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur was murdered at the Ryan International School in Gurgaon by a Class 11 student who wanted his exams and a parent-teacher meeting postponed, the CBI said today, delivering a stunning twist to the case after questioning more than 125 students and teachers. The student was detained last evening for killing Pradyuman, wh...

More than 9.4 million Chinese students just sat for annual college entrance exams known as gaokao. The stakes are incredibly high, as admissions are largely based on exam scores. A high scorer streamlines his or her path toward a better education and better jobs - a low scorer may be destined for the opposite, made worse by shame.

The Michigan Uber driver charged with murdering six people last month in a shooting spree in the southwestern part of the state will undergo a competency exam, the prosecuting attorney said today.

Two people were today sentenced to three years in prison for cheating and forgery in first verdict in the high-profile Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or 'Vyapam' scam.

452 inmates of Taloja, Nagpur and Aurangabad jails in Maharashtra would appear for an examination on Gandhian thoughts on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Egypt's ousted former president Mohamed Mursi, who has been in detention for two years, is to undergo a medical examination at his request after he complained about prison food, state media said on Saturday.

Thanks to a social organisation working in Prison Welfare Service, at least 116 children of jail inmates in Odisha passed the Matriculation examinations this year.

In an indication of Gandhian thoughts continuing to inspire prisoners, 92 inmates of the Taloja Central Jail near Mumbai appeared for the Gandhi Peace Exam.

Seventy one under-trial prisoners will appear in UP board examination of 2013 from eight district jails of the state, an official said here today.

Seventy-seven people, including some parents, have been sent to prison in Bihar for allegedly helping students to cheat in an exam for government jobs, police said on Tuesday. A Special Task Force team busted the gang which used mobile phones to pass on answers to questions posed in examinations for the Mahadalit Vikas Mission.