{"id":320348,"date":"2020-02-25T03:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T03:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320348"},"modified":"2020-02-25T03:21:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T03:21:35","slug":"schools-in-northeast-delhi-to-remain-closed-today-no-change-in-cbse-exam-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/schools-in-northeast-delhi-to-remain-closed-today-no-change-in-cbse-exam-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools in Northeast Delhi to remain closed today, No change in CBSE exam schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_320352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320352\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320352\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/closed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/closed-1.jpg 394w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/closed-1-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/closed-1-353x420.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All private and government schools will remain closed in Northeast Delhi on Tuesday, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia announced yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement came hours after violence broke out in several areas of Northeast Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere will be no internal examinations in schools tomorrow and all government and private schools will be closed in the violence-affected Northeast district of Delhi,\u201d Manish Sisodia had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cI have spoken to Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal regarding the board examinations that the exams should also be deferred in that district,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central Board of Secondary Education, which is holding the board exams, said that there would be no change in schedule as there was no centre in northeast Delhi for today\u2019s exam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c# examtime: exams tomorrow only in western Delhi at 18 centres. No change in CBSE exams scheduled for tomorrow as there are no centres in rest of Delhi (sic),\u201d the board had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, four people were killed in Delhi after a violence broke out between two groups, one supporting and the other against the Citizenship law. Section 144 has been imposed in northeast Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Numerous political leaders, including Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the BJP\u2019s Manoj Tiwari and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, had appealed for peace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All private and government schools will remain closed in Northeast Delhi on Tuesday, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia announced yesterday. The announcement came hours after violence broke out in several areas of Northeast Delhi. \u201cThere will be no internal examinations in schools tomorrow and all government and private schools will be closed in the violence-affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320354,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320348\/revisions\/320354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}