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After a gap of a year, the West Bengal Madhyamik (Class 10) and Higher Secondary Uccha Madhyamik Boards (Class 12) have announced the exam schedule.

Teachers in the city said before conducting the practicals, the schools would need to conduct practical classes as students have had no experience of conducting hands-on experiments

The credit of elimination of many deadly diseases in the known history – smallpox, malaria and polio – goes to western science. When the malaria epidemic raged in Sri Lanka, mainly in the Sabaragamuwa and northwestern provinces in the 1830s, nearly 80,000 people died out of a population of some six million. Sufferings of people were immense, and more than hunger, in some places there was no one to bury the dead. The leaders of the leftist movements at the time, took the lead in providing relief to the poor. This is one of the first hand experiences of them, vividly explained in the book �...

I am writing this in response to the news item in your paper of 26 January 2021 under the caption, “GMOA seeks university admission for medical students at the age of 18”. This communication from me is practically from the horse’s mouth; from someone who, so many eons ago in 1965, benefitted by being allowed the privilege of joining the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, as a novice Medical Student, at the tender age of 18 years and two months. I sat the GCE (A/L) Examination in December 1964, at the age of 17 years and five months, offering the four subjects of Physics, Chemist...