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With 72.99 per cent students having cleared the board examination this year, there has been a dip of around 8.9 per cent — the lowest recorded in the last five years (2012-2017) when the semester system was in place — in the pass percentage. The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) declared the results for Class 12 science stream on Thursday. With 72.99 per cent students having cleared the board examination this year, there has been a dip of around 8.9 per cent — the lowest recorded in the last five years (2012-2017) when the semester system was in place — in the pass percentage as compared to last year when 81.89 per cent students had passed the exams. While 74.91 per cent girls cleared the exams, for boys the pass percentage was 71.84 per cent. Unlike in 2016-2017, when the boys broke the previous records and outshone girls though only by a narrow gap of 0.46 per cent, this year, the girls retained their numero uno position by a margin of 3.0...

Karnataka  has amongst India’s best economic and  child health  outcomes, but women’s empowerment lags some of India’s poorest states, according to an  IndiaSpend  analysis of  national  data. Ahead of the election to the state’s assembly on May 12, 2018, we compared Karnataka’s performance on 15 socio-economic and health-related indicators–sourced from  National  Family Health Surveys 2005-06 ( NFHS 3 ) and 2015-16 ( NFHS 4 ),  Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation  and  Ministry of Labour and Employment –with nine other states. Some highlights: Among the states,  Karnataka  has the country’s second lowest  unemployment  rate, behind only Gujarat. Karnataka’s per capita income ranks fourth among the 10 states considered for the analysis; Karnataka’s infant mortality rate declined from 43.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2005-06 to 26.9 in 2015-16, ranking fifth among the 10 sta...