Results Anounced

About 9,62,119 students had appeared in the test conducted at 1460 centres across the country.

Students qualifying the exam will be eligible for admission to National Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Information Technology, government-funded institutions and deemed universities.

There were nearly 78,000 candidates in Delhi. For foreign students, CBSE has set up centres in Dubai and Riyadh.

The state-funded engineering institutes have 15 per cent reservation for the students qualifying AIEEE. There were about 18,000 seats in these institutions last year.

The number of seats are expected to cross 20,000 this year. Central counselling for admission will be held in third week of June. PTI

States/ UTs

seats

Phases

POLL DATES AND PHASE

16-Apr-09

23-Apr-09

30-Apr-09

07-May-09

   13-           May-09

Phase1

Phase2

Phase3

Phase4

Phase5

Andhra Pradesh

42

2

22

20

Arunachal Pradesh

2

1

2

Assam

14

2

3

11

Bihar

40

4

13

13

11

3

Goa

2

1

2

Gujarat

26

1

26

Haryana

10

1

10

Himachal Pradesh

4

1

4

Jammu & Kashmir

6

5

1

1

1

1

2

Karnataka

28

2

17

11

Kerala

20

1

20

Madhya Pradesh

2

13

16

Maharashtra

48

3

13

25

10

Manipur†

2

2

1

1

Meghalaya

2

1

2

Mizoram

1

1

1

Nagaland

1

1

1

Orissa

21

2

10

11

Punjab

13

2

4

9

Rajasthan

25

1

25

Sikkim

1

1

1

Tamil Nadu

39

1

1

Tripura

2

1

2

Uttar Pradesh

80

5

16

17

15

18

14

West Bengal

42

3

14

17

11

Chhattisgarh

11

1

11

Jharkhand

14

2

6

8

Uttarakhand

5

1

5

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

1

1

1

Chandigarh

1

1

1

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

1

1

1

Daman & Diu

1

1

1

NCT of Delhi

7

1

7

Lakshadweep

1

1

1

Puducherry

1

1

1

Total Constituencies

543

124

141

107

85

86

Total States/UTs Polling on this Day

17

13

11

8

9

States

Constituencies

No. of States and UTs polling in single phase

22

164

No. of States and UTs polling in two phases

8

163

No. of States and UTs polling in three phases

2

90

No. of States and UTs polling in four phases

1

40

No. of States and UTs polling in five phases

2

86

Total

35

543

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Chantelle Steadman, 15, said 13-year-old Alfie is the father of her one-week-old baby daughter.

The news that such a young boy had fathered a baby prompted a fierce political debate over the high rate of teenage pregnancies in the UK and the sexualisation of children.

But yesterday Richard Goodsell, 16, and Tyler Barker, 14, told the News of the World they had slept with Chantelle at about the time she became pregnant and claimed she also had several other sexual partners.

Alfie today said he would take a DNA test as soon as possible to establish whether he is Maisie’s father.

His spokesman Max Clifford said: “They are planning to do a DNA test.

“Alfie believed he was the father but due to reports in the News of the World at the weekend, he wants to make sure by having a DNA test as soon as possible.”

Alfie, who lives with his mother Nicola in Hailsham, East Sussex, was just 12 when baby Maisie was conceived but said after her birth that he would stand by and support Chantelle with the baby.

Maisie is believed to be living with Chantelle and the teenager’s parents Penny and Steve at their home in Eastbourne.

East Sussex County Council said Chantelle, Alfie and Maisie had received “a package of support”.

In a statement released by the council today, Matt Dunkley, the council’s director of children’s services, said: “We would not normally publicly discuss individual case information and it must be remembered there are three vulnerable young people involved in this case, all of whom are entitled to protection and to have these matters dealt with confidentially.

“However, given the exceptional circumstances of this case, we do understand the need for reassurance.

“It is completely wrong to suggest social workers are doing nothing to support the families and young people involved in this case.

“In cases like this it is normal practice to assess the needs of the parents and the unborn child before the birth and to revisit those assessments once the child has been born to look at what further support might be needed.

“In this case a package of support was agreed before the birth including enhanced involvement from health visitors and family outreach workers.”

Mr Dunkley added that social workers and health visitors were due to visit both families again to carry out further detailed assessments of the three children.

“These will further examine issues such as the parenting of Maisie and the support from the wider family, the education of these young parents, and other issues, including the impact of the huge amount of public interest there has been in this situation on both families,” he said.

“For each of the young people concerned we will provide the necessary support identified and will continue to monitor the situation closely.”

Collection centers have sprung up in several cities, with volunteers calling for bright pink old-fashioned knickers as gifts to the Sri Ram Sena as a mark of defiance.

“Girl power! Go girls, go. Show Ram Sena… who’s the boss,” reads one post on Facebook from Larkins Dsouza.

‘Hooligans’
There is a separate campaign to “Walk to the nearest pub and buy a drink (and) raise a toast,” that has found supporters from Toronto to Bangkok to Sydney, with even teetotalers saying they will get a drink on Saturday to show solidarity.

“Though I don’t promote smoking or drinking for both sexes, we definitely don’t need hooligans telling us what to do and what not. Best of luck!,” reads one post from Iftehar Ahsan.

There are more heated discussion threads as well that range from the limits of independence to religion and politics, reflecting the struggle facing a country that has long battled to balance its deep-rooted traditions with rapid modernization.

Growing numbers of young and independent urban women have become an easy target for religious fundamentalists and aging politicians trying to force traditional mores on an increasingly liberal, Western outlook.

Not to be outdone, the Sri Ram Sena, which has cautioned shops and pubs in southern Karnataka state against marking Valentine’s Day, has promised to gift pink saris to women and marry off canoodling couples to make them “respectable.”

Fifteen-year-old Ashwini committed suicide because she felt humiliated.
But the men who caught and thrashed her and her Muslim friend haven’t been arrested yet.
In the Mangalore pub attack earlier, right wing Hindu activists thrashed women publically. The men from Sri

On Wednesday, a court allowed Mayor Ganesh Hosebettu to file an FIR against Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury.
“I am amazed and amused . They must actually go against those who attacked. In fact papers also called it Talibanisation,” she says.

But what’s even more shocking is the candid admission to NDTV by Mangalore’s top cop.
Sateesh Kumar, SP of Mangalore, says: “We have managed to find out who the accused are, we will be shortly arresting them.”
“If the police take action nobody will dare do it again. We have the Police, the home minister only to protect us. But their statements shock and scare me,” says a local.
The Managlore Mayor has acted against a Central Minister to prove a point. But many question, why are those who tarnished Mangalore’s image in the first place free?