Free Laptops to class X Pass Students

Uttar Pradesh government today announced free laptops for meritorious students, who passed class 10 and 12 examinations conducted by CBSE, ICSE and the state board this year. 

It was decided that 39,600 meritorious students who passed class X and XII would be given free laptops, an official spokesperson said in Lucknow.The decision was taken during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow.
Giving details of the decision the spokesperson said, 50 per cent laptops would be for each class X and XII pass outs and it would be distributed among students of different boards according to their results.

The list of laptop recipients would have 20 per cent quota for minorities and 21 per cent for SC/CT students, he added.

The Samajwadi Party government had promised free laptops and tablet computers to intermediate and high-school pass outs in its 2012 Assembly election manifesto.

While over 15 lakh laptops were distributed to intermediate pass outs, the scheme for distribution of tablets could not see light of the day. The laptop scheme was also discontinued after 2012.

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Parliament Canteen Price List

Priced at just £1.05, the confectionery treat is cooked in filo pastry rather than the traditional chip-shop batter and served with an unknown sauce.

Despite the rest of the menu providing calorie information for each dish, there is no figure beside the Mars bar.

Out-going Labour leader Jim Murphy tweeted the special addition to the chip-shop themed menu describing it as a "healthy option".

The Scottish Parliament confirmed the caterers at Holyrood did have a Mars bar on the menu but it was not deep fried.

A spokeswoman added: "The menu is chosen by Sodexo, the company contracted to provide catering services at Holyrood."

The menu is an attempt to make the dish healthy after recommendations in Holyrood's Scottish National Food and Drink Policy published in June 2009.

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Students Throw Eggs At Kerintha Team

Success tour turned sour for Kerintha team today. The unit members of the latest youthful hit, Kerintha, met the audiences in a theater in Srikakulam as a part of their state wide success tour. After a frenzied interaction with the young crowds, Kerintha team was on their way to another theater in town.

However, a group of angry students belonging to the student outfit, ABVP, raised slogans against the team for mocking the Srikakulam dialect in the film. The protesting students even hurled eggs at the cars of the film's hero Sumanth Ashwin and the producer Dil Raju and didn't let them move until Dil Raju apologized.

In Kerintha, a character named Parvatheesam speaks in the Srikakulam dialect and his innocent dialogues and histrionics became the highlight of the entire film. While the unit members obviously didn't portray that character to mock the Srikakulam dialect or the people, the already hurt students seemed to be in no mood to accept it.

Kerintha has already been declared a hit and the team is highly excited about the success to even sit back and worry about such misunderstandings

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