UPSC Declared CDS 2 2019 Results With Name; Download Here.

Source – news.careers360.com

 Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the result of Combined Defense Services (CDS) 2 results with candidates name. The result is released by UPSC on their official website upsc.gov.in in PDF format. UPSC conducted the CDS 2 exam on September 08, 2019 across major cities in India. A total of 8120 candidates have passed the CDS II 2019 written test and are now eligible to be interviewed by the Service Selection Board (SSB). After qualifying the SSB interview candidates will be selected for admission in Indian Military Academy (IMA), Indian Naval Academy (INA), Air Force Academy (AFA) and Officers Training Academy (OTA).

Steps to check the result:

1. Visit the official website – upsc.gov.in

2. Go to ‘What’s New’ section

3. Click on the notification titled ‘Written Result (with name) Combined Defence Services Examination (II), 2019’

4. Search your roll number or name in the result PDF

5. Download and save the PDF for future reference

What’s the next step for the candidates who got selected?

According to the official notification, those candidates who qualified in the CDS II and if their first choice is in Army (IMA/OTA) they will be required to register on joinindianarmy.nic.in to receive call up information for the SSB interview. Candidates who have already registered are advised not to register again.

Qualified candidates will be required to submit their original documents like – Date of Birth, educational qualifications and other relevant certificates.

Candidates who want to obtain any information related to the CDS II 2019 exam can contact UPSC as it has a facilitation counter near the Examination Hall Building in its Campus. Candidates may contact the facilitation centre on all working days between 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM, in person or over telephone No.011-23385271, 011-23381125 and 011-23098543.

What about the candidates who are not selected?

UPSC will release the mark sheet of candidates who have not qualified within 15 days after conducting the SSB Interview and from the date of publication of the final result of OTA. The result will be available on the website for 30 days.

IBPS RRB PO Prelims Result and Score Card 2019 Released at ibps.in/crp-rrb-viii/, Steps How to Download Score Card.

Source – pagalguy.com

The preliminary exam for the Common Recruitment Process for RRBs (CRP RRBs VIII) was conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) on 12th October 2019 and 19th October 2019.

The result for the same has now been released on the official website of IBPS: www.ibps.in. The result was released on 1st November 2019. Candidates who have appeared for the exam can now take a look at their result on the official website.

The result is available till 8th November 2019. Very soon the scorecard and the cut off marks will also be displayed on the official website.

The main exam for those candidates who will be qualified in the preliminary exams will be conducted on 30th November 2019.

The result consists of the marks attained by the candidate who has appeared for the exam. The candidates can check the results by entering the Roll number and Date of Birth. This exam was conducted for the selection of Grade-A officers (Scale-I, II, III).

S. No.ParticularsDetails
1Preliminary exam12th October 2019 and19th October 2019.
2Result for preliminary exam1st November 2019
3Last date to download the result8th November 2019
4Main Exam30th November 2019

How to download the result

Steps to check the results can be given as follows:

  • Step 1: Go to the official website: ibps.in
  • Step 2: Locate the link titled “IBPS RRB Officers Scale I, II and III” on the homepage.
  • Step 3: Click on the link to get redirected to a new page.
  • Step 4: Login with your IBPS registration number and password.
  • Step 5: Now, your IBPS RRB officers Scale I, II, III scores will be displayed on the screen
  • Step 6: Download the result and print it out to keep a hard copy for further uses.

Cut-off marks

The other factors that affect the cut-off score are the total number of vacancies; number of candidates, difficulty level and attempts made by the candidates. The expected cut off marks are as follows: –

  • General: 58-62
  • Other Backward Classes (OBC): 57-60
  • Scheduled Caste (SC): 48-52
  • Scheduled Tribe (ST): 42-45
  • Visually Impaired (VI): 38-40

Exam Pattern

The main exam pattern for IBPS RRB can be given as:

  • Reasoning and Computer Aptitude: 45 MCQs of 60 marks with a time period of 60 minutes
  • General/Economy/Banking Awareness: 40 MCQs of 40 marks with a time period of 35 minutes.
  • English Language: 35 MCQs of 40 marks with a time period of 40 minutes
  • Data Analytics and Interpretation: 35 MCQs of 60 marks with a time period of 45 minutes
  • In total, 155 Questions will be asked of 200 marks, and the time period will be 3 hours.
  • English Descriptive Paper (Letter Writing and Essay): 2 questions of 25 marks with a time period of 30 minutes.

In total, there are 225 questions which include both objective and descriptive questions. There will be a negative marking of 1/4th marks for a wrong answer.

Assembly Elections 2019: All you need to know about the Jharkhand state polls.

Source – moneycontrol.com

The Election Commission of India, on November 1, announced the polling schedule for Assembly elections in Jharkhand.

With the announcement, the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into effect in the state.

Tenure of the current Jharkhand Legislative Assembly will end on January 5, 2020.

The election for all 81 Assembly seats will happen in five phases spanning over 20 days.

Important dates to watch out for in Jharkhand, by phases:

Phase 1> Issue of notification: November 6
> Last date of nomination: November 13
> Scrutiny of nominations: November 14

> Last date of withdrawal of candidature: November 16

> Voting: November 30

Phase 2> Issue of notification: November 11
> Last date of nomination: November 18
> Scrutiny of nominations: November 19

> Last date of withdrawal of candidature: November 21

> Voting: December 7

Phase 3> Issue of notification: November 16
> Last date of nomination: November 25
> Scrutiny of nominations: November 26

> Last date of withdrawal of candidature: November 28

> Voting: December 12

Phase 4> Issue of notification: November 22
> Last date of nomination: November 29
> Scrutiny of nominations: November 30

> Last date of withdrawal of candidature: December 2

> Voting: December 16

Phase 5> Issue of notification: November 26
> Last date of nomination: December 3
> Scrutiny of nominations: December 4

> Last date of withdrawal of candidature: December 6

> Voting: December 20

Counting of votes for all phases will happen together on December 23.

Reserved seats

While, 28 seats have been reserved for Scheduled Tribes (STs), nine have been reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs)

Voters and polling

According to data released by EC, Jharkhand has a total of 2.26 crore eligible voters. Out of these, 41,336 are service voters.

The number of polling stations that will be used by voters across the state is 29,464. This number is 19 percent higher than in 2014.

To encourage greater constructive participation of women in the electoral process, EC has directed that at least one polling station will be managed exclusively by women in every Assembly constituency. In such stations, all election staff, including security personnel, will be women.

EC has confirmed that Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs) will be used in this election.

Lowdown on the political situation

Chief Minister Raghubar Das-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hoping to retain power in the state. BJP is widely expected to contest the election in an alliance with the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU).

The BJP-AJSU alliance is being challenged by Opposition parties such as former chief ministers Shibu Soren and Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), the Indian National Congress and the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM-P). The three parties had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election in an alliance and are expected to fight in this formation again, with the possibility of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) joining hands.

BJP’s ally in Bihar, the Janata Dal (United), has said that it will contest all 81 seats alone.No alliance has declared their seat-sharing formula so far.

After witnessing below-expectation Assembly election results in Haryana and Maharashtra in October, the BJP is recalibrating its strategy. Many factors that came into play in Haryana and Maharashtra could may play a key role in Jharkhand too.

Dhoni and Ranchi: An unadulterated love story.

Source – sportstar.thehindu.com

If you find yourself near the Jharkhand State Cricket Association International Cricket Stadium in Ranchi early in the morning on match day, just follow the home crowd and police personnel. They will lead you from the South Gate towards a makeshift stall dishing out hot singhadas (as samosas are called in this part of the country), litti chokha, other tidbits and hot chai.

Chai is served in clay cups — or bhars, as the vendor says in Hindi with an inimitable Bengali accent. It’s day one of the third Test between India and South Africa. The home team has already won the series 2-0, but captain Virat Kohli is eyeing a 3-0 sweep. Waiting for the day’s play to start, a grim, muscular man browses through a newspaper as someone points to a headline: ‘Dhoni to watch the third Test.’

The ice is broken and the chat begins. Ranchi Hindi has its own style, and soon people involved in the conversation give me a taste of it. One refers to Dhoni as ‘Mahendra,’ another calls him ‘Mahender,’ some go with ‘Maahi,’ and a few throw ‘Mahi’ and ‘Mahiya’ into the conversation.

Dhoni is ‘Captain Cool,’ ‘Thala’ to the legion of adoring Chennai Super Kings fans, and more for the outside world, but to the vendor, the local policemen and the more than 1.1 million people living in the capital of Jharkhand, he is one of them. He is the shy student who knew cricket was his calling. He is the friend with a big heart, a humble family man.

Aap Dhoni pe likh rahe hain? Fir chai ke paise nahi lenge (You are writing on Dhoni? Then we won’t charge you for tea),” says Ramesh, the owner of the stall.

Dhoni has not featured in any limited-overs series since the World Cup, and talk of his international retirement drives revealing conversations, some curious even.

Dhoni le liya sanyas ODIs se bhiAapko nahin na pata…padho akhbar (Dhoni has retired even from ODIs. You didn’t know… read the newspapers),” Ramesh says with a smile. When someone points out that his information is wrong and Dhoni has not quit One-Day International cricket, Ramesh sticks to his guns. “Woh dabav mein nahi aaegakoi boley uske pehle hi nikal liya. Just IPL (Indian Premier League) khelegaHum Ranchi-waale pressure mein nahi aate (Dhoni will not come under pressure…he quit before anyone could tell him. He will play just the IPL. We Ranchiites cannot be pressured).”

In Ranchi, it is almost as if Dhoni is separate from the game. His roots in the city are celebrated just as fondly as his name and what he has achieved. Dhoni’s father had arrived in Ranchi in 1964 to work as a pump operator with MECON Ltd, a public-sector engineering firm.

Dhoni, who was born on July 7, 1981, grew up in a one-bedroom apartment adjacent to the city’s MECON Stadium. Ramesh provides some perspective. “Ranchi itna chota shehar hai, ghum fir ke aap ko koi na koi Dhoni ka pehchaan wala mil hi jaega (Ranchi is such a small town, it is likely that you will bump into someone or the other who knows Dhoni).”

Maybe that’s what Dhoni meant when, at a promotional event of his biopic M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, he said he was “more of a small-city boy” who “loves” Ranchi.

“It’s near Kolkata, near Jamshedpur, where Tata originated. It [Jharkhand] is India’s richest state in terms of minerals,” is how an up-and-coming Dhoni used to explain where he hails from, particularly during overseas tours.

He doesn’t have to any more. Ranchi has the feel of an old-world, small city that’s fast trying to outgrow its roots. It took a giant leap when Dhoni led India to the inaugural World Twenty20 title in 2007.

The fans still hope for the flashy stroke-play of yore, when the Dhoni of long locks carted bowlers for fun. But what they get now is a 38-year-old star who seems to be batting with the weight of the world on his shoulders.

But Dhoni has always paced himself, insists Adil Hussain, the former Bihar and Central Coalfields Ltd captain who played alongside Dhoni at the club for five years.

“Even when he played for CCL, he would start cautiously… Sometimes after two or four overs, his score would be five or six. But as the innings progressed, he invariably accelerated and made up for the dot balls.

“And what’s surprising is… people generally talk about a batsman if he scores a 50 or 100… Mahendra was someone people talked about even when he was making scores of 20, 30 or 40-odd. They would recall a long six. So, irrespective of his score, he was always the talk of the town,” says Hussain. Dhoni was in Class XI when Hussain spotted him hammering bowlers in a school tournament, and got him on board at CCL in 1997.

“I heard of Dhoni for the first time when he smashed a double hundred (213) in the inter-school final against Kendriya Vidyalaya from Hinoo (in Ranchi). After that, he was picked to play for the Ranchi senior district team. I was the captain… He wasn’t part of the XI but travelled with us,” Hussain recollects. “He later joined CCL as a stipend player… He was still in school at the time, mind you.”

Hussain speaks adoringly about Dhoni’s focus and discipline. “I’m not saying this because he is a big star now. He has always been dedicated… Be it an important game or an inconsequential match, he never took things lightly.”

What about his famed calmness? Dhoni admitted during a public appearance that he too gets angry and disappointed, but said he had learned how to handle those emotions.

Hussain shares an insider’s view. “He had come home and we were talking cricket when the subject of India’s tour of South Africa (in 2018) came up. If you remember, in one of the matches, Dhoni was visibly upset with his batting partner Manish Pandey. So I asked: ‘We don’t see you shouting at players like that. What happened there, Mahendar?’ He replied: ‘Arey bhaiya, tense situation tha toh thoda gussa aa gaya (Brother, the situation was tense, so I got a bit annoyed).’”

Hussain isn’t paying attention to how he refers to Dhoni. He flits between Dhoni, Mahendra and Mahendar with ease.

It’s the same ease, love and affection that you can note in Jaykumar Sinha’s voice when he speaks about Dhoni. Sinha, convenor of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association and a former Ranchi University coach, has seen Dhoni evolve from a young boy to a world champion, and shares how the player is sorted and never far from his roots.

“Even today when he comes to the stadium and if I’m at the gate to receive him, even before I can greet him, he comes and hugs me: ‘Jay da, namasteKaise hain? (Namaste, how have you been?)’ He is friendly with everyone who works in this complex.”

When Dhoni is in town, he drops by at the JSCA Stadium to play billiards or tennis and he sometimes uses the gym. “He does some or the other activity every day… His approach is like any other player. Say, if a Ranji or under-16 campaign is going on, and we request him to speak to the boys for a few minutes, he does so willingly. He never says no… So as far as Ranchi and Jharkhand are concerned, he means the world to us,” says Sinha.

Retirement chatter

Talk veers to Dhoni’s retirement. “He will never play a sport just for the sake of it. Even today, whenever he plays tennis or billiards here, you can tell from his approach that he has taken an hour out just to engage in that particular sport. And cricket is in his blood,” says Sinha.

The ‘retirement’ word quickly stirs up emotions on the street. “It’s time Dhoni retired… He’s taking up a youngster’s place in the team,” says Dharam, a cab driver. “That player Ambati Rayudu is very good and also a wicketkeeper. Maybe if Dhoni had retired, he could’ve got another chance (sic).” Abruptly, Dharam changes his mind. “Virat (Kohli) needs Dhoni by his side. His exit will cause an imbalance, so I’m not too sure now (about Dhoni retiring),” he says with a sheepish grin.

Mohan, a college student, says Dhoni should “practise what he preached” when he was named India captain. “Didn’t he ask (Sourav) Ganguly and Sachin (Tendulkar) to leave when he was the captain? He said he wanted a young team and eventually had his way with the selectors.”

Opinions vary and Dhoni marches on unfazed. He finally drops in at the JSCA Stadium on day four of the Test after India won the match. The match is over, the post-match presentation is done, but many Ranchiites are yet to troop out. It’s unadulterated love for Dhoni that keeps them hanging on.

Long after Dhoni is done doing what he does best, he can come back to the place he calls home: one place in whose heart he lives as Mahi, rent free.

Bihar bans 15-year-old vehicles in Patna, old govt cars in entire state

source – indiatoday.in

Hours after the Supreme Court came down heavily on state governments for failing to take adequate measures to curb air pollution the Bihar government decided to ban 15-year-old vehicles in Patna. The government has also decided to ban all government vehicles over 15-year-old across the state.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday convened an emergency meeting over the pollution crisis which was attended by Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Environment Sushil Kumar Modi, Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar, Chairman of Bihar Pollution Control Board Ashok Ghosh, Patna commissioner of Police Sanjay Kumar Agarwal and Patna DM Kumar Ravi.

The Environment department gave a presentation on the pollution situation prevailing across the state.

During the meeting it was decided that no commercial vehicles more than 15-year-old will be allowed in Patna. It was also decided that the state government will ban all government vehicles that are more than 15-year-old across the state.

Giving relaxation to private vehicle owners, the government has decided to allow vehicles more than 15-year-old only after they get pollution under control (PUC) certificates.

“The state government has taken an important decision to curb pollution in the state which includes banning of old commercial vehicles. It has been found that vehicles account for almost 30 per cent of the pollution in the state. All the decisions taken in the meeting will be notified tomorrow,” said Deepak Kumar, chief secretary Bihar.

It may be mentioned that the air quality in Patna has worsened after Diwali. Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday almost touched the 400-mark, which is the worst in the state. Air quality in Muzaffarpur and Gaya was slightly better but remained in the very poor category at 369 and 317, respectively.