A High Court Bench comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar upheld an earlier order which said that disclosing the cut-off marks would not harm the interest of either the UPSC or any third party.

The HC Bench also rejected UPSC's argument that the information regarding the cut-off marks would be misused by coaching institutes and hamper the chances of meritorious students of making it to the merit list.

Upholding the April 17, 2007, order passed by the single judge bench favouring the Central Information Commission (CIC)'s decision, which had held that disclosure of information pertaining to cut-off marks would not harm the interest of the UPSC or any third party, the bench dismissed a petition filed by the UPSC against the single judge's order.

It also dismissed the UPSC's apprehension that by disclosing the working of the scaling methodology for the preliminary examination, merit can be compromised and candidates with less merit would be selected. It said: "We are of the view that the apprehension of UPSC is not well founded."

The UPSC had approached the court against the November 13, 2006 order passed by the CIC allowing the pleas of candidates seeking details of the marks obtained by them in preliminary exam and sought separate details of cut-off marks for every subject.

Results will be displayed simultaneously at headquarters, regional offices situated at Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai including 69 chapter offices and 66 examination centres located all over the country and abroad. Students can access the results at institute's website www.icsi.edu

Meanwhile the varsity administration has declared the examination schedule of LLB, LLM, MEd, BSc & MSc home Science. Varsity's assistant registrar (exam) MaheshKuamr told that LLB and LLM exams will start from August 20, and MEd, MSc and BSc home science exams will start from August 5. He further cleared that only those colleges may conduct the exam which have completed the study session as per rules.

Meanwhile, the exams for professional courses in colleges affiliated to CCSU have begun on Tuesday. Forty-eight thousand students at 91 centres are appearing for the exams. On the first day the exam was conducted peacefully, though tiny irregularities were found in a few admit cards.

The University has made arrangements for keeping the question papers safe. Registrar VK Sinha said that the exams are being conducted at 91 centres.

MDU controller of examinations K.C.Dadhwal said this time the PMT results had been declared in a record time of eight hours.

The entrance examination was held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday and the results were declared around 1 in the night. The results are available at www.mdurohtak.com.

Siddharth Chauhan (roll no. 503984) has topped the PMT-08.

The university released the names of the postgraduate, M.Phil and Ph.D candidates selected for viva voce in different schools of study.

A total of 162 students in the School of Life Sciences (SLS) have been invited for viva on July 4 and 5 in the university department. The candidates have been selected for M.Phil and Ph.D courses under the Junior Research Fellowships (JRF).

Two students have been selected to appear for a July 15 viva for M.Phil in the German language. Fifty-five students have been chosen for enrolment in the M.Phil and Ph.D courses in the Urdu language.

Nine students, who scored 200/200, secured the top ranks in the list released by the Directorate of Medical Education.

Sonu Rajan of Sri Sankara Vidyashramam Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tiruvanmiyur, tops the list and is the only Chennai student among the top nine. She is a third year dentistry student who could not get admission for MBBS in 2005-06 due to low marks in the entrance examination. S.V. Manoj Kumar of SRV Boys Higher Secondary School, Rasipuram, has been placed second and V. Arun of St.Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Chengalpet, third.

The others are: T. Dinesh of Sri Vidya Mandir Matriculation School, Uttangarai; S. Venkatesh, and K. Kamalakumar of SRV Boys Higher Secondary School, Rasipuram; A.M. Vignesh of Rosemary Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Palayamkottai; E. Manoj Kumar of SRV Boys Higher Secondary School, Rasipuram; and I.V. Priyamvadha of Bharathi Vidhyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Gobichettipalayam.

Since all the students had scored the same marks, other criteria such as date of birth were used to rank them, according to Health Secretary V.K. Subburaj, who released the list. He handed over the first copy to director of Medical Education T.P. Kalaniti. The information is also available on the website www.tnhealth.org.

Said a senior teacher in the college, ``As of now, the Bishop and the supreme council want the 50% quota to be filled only by Christian candidates. In case there are still vacancies, they are to be filled by the social sector -- SC, ST and physically handicapped. However, faculty members want these seats to go to the general category, as the social sector already has almost 20% seats reserved for it.'' Members of the faculty are holding talks with the supreme council regarding the matter, said college sources. ``The matter needs to be resolved soon as interviews start on June 19 and the cut-offs are coming out tomorrow,'' added the source.

As many as 195,870 candidates appeared at the senior secondary examination. Candidates can check their results on websites: www.nos.org , www.nios.ac.in and www.indiaresults.com . The results for Class X will be declared on Thursday.

The examination was conducted in two stages and the final was held on May 5 this year.

Based on the marks scored by the candidates in the final examination, 1776 candidates, out of which 1389 are general, 268 SC and 119 ST, have been placed on the merit list and 1642 candidates are on the wait list.

The first round of counselling would begin from June 13 for which the successful candidates will have to appear personally or through video conferencing at CBSE centres in New Delhi, Kolkata and Puducherry.

However, the students, who did not give any option of counselling venue, will have to appear at the New Delhi centre only.