CBSE results

A total of 12,737 candidates scored 95% or above, whereas 72,599 candidates scored 90% and above in the exam, the officials said.

The controversy over the paper leak issue that dogged the Economics exam apparently failed to dent the results. A re-test was done on April 25, nearly a month after the paper was leaked.

The topper among the differently abled students category was Vijay Ganesh from Palakkad, Kerala securing 98.4%. Pooja Kumari, from Dehradun, stood second among the differently abled students with 97.8%, while Lavanya Jha of DPS RK Puram, Delhi came third with 97.4%.

Number of candidates placed in compartment was 91,818 as they failed in one of the five subjects.

(With agency inputs) Hindi heartland states it controls such as Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, leading up to next year’s general election.

The recent setback to the BJP in Karnataka has buoyed opposition parties, which have been talking about a federal front to take on the ruling party in 2019.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley, whose portfolio is being handled by railway minister Piyush Goyal while he recuperates from a kidney transplant, took a jibe at the federal front concept in a Facebook post on the NDA government’s fourth anniversary.

“A strong nation and the requirements of good governance abhor anarchy. The political agenda for the debate this year appropriately will be Prime Minister Modi versus an anarchist combination,” he wrote.