UP Board Class 12 Exam 2013 Results declared

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Board of High School declared the Intermediate (Class 12) Examination Results 2013 at 1 pm on Wednesday.

The results can be accessed at http://upresults.nic.in/

Around twenty seven lakh students had appeared for the Intermediate examination this year. The exams were conducted between 12 March to 6 April, 2013.

UP Board High School (Class X) Examination 2013 Results are likely to be announced on 8th June 2013.

The exams are conducted by the Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad.

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Bihar Board Matric (Class 10) Results 2013 declared

Patna: The Bihar Board Matric (Class 10) Results 2013 were declared at 5 PM on Wednesday.

The results can be accessed at biharboard.net and biharboard.bih.nic.in.

The Bihar Board Class 10th Result 2013 were announced by Bihar School Examination Board.

Bihar School Examination Board commonly abbreviated as BSEB is a board based in Bihar for the schools. Every year like other school boards, Bihar School Examination Board also conducts yearly exams for students of class 10th and intermediate.

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NEET results declared 2013

NEET results declared

New Delhi: The results of the first National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to all under-graduate medical colleges were declared today with 3,66,317 candidates qualifying.

In all, 6,58,040 candidates appeared in the test conducted by CBSE at 1251 examination centres located in 85 cities all over India and abroad, said a CBSE statement.

The qualifying criteria for unreserved category was 50 percentile and 1,57,214 candidates qualified in this category out of the total 3,66,317 qualifying candidates.

The results were declared on the basis of the qualifying criteria prescribed by the Medical Council of India and Dental Council of India.

The qualified candidates have to further complete the formalities with the respective counselling authorities, such as, DGHS, medical education directorates of states, AFMC, institutions and universities, for admission to MBBS/BDS courses.

The NEET-UG was conducted by CBSE for admission to all under-graduate medical colleges across the country.

This was the first-ever such exam conducted across the country.

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Silicon Valley at front line of global cyber war

Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state's Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers.

With China seeking to grow its economy and expand its technology base, companies like Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter are inviting targets. In fact, all have been attacked and all point the finger at China, which has denied any role.

The US government has stepped up efforts to thwart cyber-attacks, but those efforts are mainly focused at protecting its own secrets, especially regarding military operations and technologies.

Paul Rosenzweig, a former Department of Homeland Security official whose Red Branch Consulting provides national security advice, said the responsibility for preventing attacks in the private sector lies with the US innovators who created the technology that's being hacked in the first place.

"To some degree, they were getting a pass," he said. "If a car manufacturer made a car that was routinely able to be stolen, they'd be sued. If software is made with gaps that are a liability, they bear some responsibility, and in recent years there's been a sea change in high tech firms accepting that responsibility."

Big firms like Google employ thousands of security experts who can spot a potential attack on just a few individuals and quickly disseminate protection for everyone using their products.

Google routinely detects unsafe websites that spread malicious software or trick people into revealing personal information, posting warnings in front of users and contacting webmasters who may have been hacked.

But Chinese hackers have managed to hit even Google, and in a book released this spring, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt said China is the world's "most sophisticated and prolific hacker."

Cybersecurity is high on the agenda for the meeting between Obama and Xi on Friday and Saturday in Southern California's Rancho Mirage. A recent government report found nearly 40 Pentagon weapons programs and almost 30 other defense technologies were compromised by cyber intrusions from China.

Earlier this year, cybersecurity firm Mandiant linked a secret Chinese military unit to years of cyber-attacks against US companies.

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Bangladesh lifts ban on YouTube?

Dhaka: Bangladesh today lifted a ban on popular video sharing website YouTube, eight months after it was imposed to prevent the viewing of an anti-Islam film which had sparked worldwide protests.

"The ban has been lifted," a spokesman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Sunil Kanti Bose said.

Talking to state-run BSS news agency Bose said the people in Bangladesh now could have access again to the YouTube as all the International Internet Gateway (IIG) were directed to provide the popular service to the customer.

The telecom regulator blocked YouTube in Bangladesh on September 17 last year to prevent people from watching the 14-minute trailer on a film titled 'Innocence of Muslims' which sparked deadly protests from the Middle East to Southeast Asia claiming many lives.

Bose said the ban was lifted on Google assurance that they would filter the objectionable content 'Innocence of Muslims' for what the popular video streaming site was blocked temporarily in the country.

The BTRC chief said the Google also assured the regulator to install an independent server in Bangladesh as soon as possible. Different Islamist groups had protested the film and set fire to US flag in the country.

The BTRC eventually banned the site as the Google US and Google APAC that control the operations of YouTube facility across the Asia-pacific region did not respond to Bangladesh request to withdraw the film.

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