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Guesswork out, hard work in: MVD set to make learner's test tougher

The New Indian Express Kollam

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January 14, 2025

To introduce negative marking system and stimulation-based hazard perception test

- Krishna Kumar K E & Manisha V C S @Kochi

UNTIL now, getting a learner's licence had more or less been a cakewalk for many. All that is set to change with the Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) planning to bring in major changes in the test format in two months.

Besides increasing the number of Multiple Choice Questions, the MVD is set to introduce negative marks for wrong answers. Candidates will also have to pass a simulation-based hazard perception test.

As per the revised learner's test format, a candidate will have to attempt 30 MCQs, each having five options, instead of the current 20 questions. There will be negative marking - 0.25 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer. One needs to achieve a pass percentage of 60, that is 18 marks out of 30, to move to the next stage of the test.

MEER VERHALEN VAN The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

321kg gold smuggled through 7 main routes seized in 10 months, says DRI

THE Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has uncovered an increasingly sophisticated gold smuggling operation spanning continents. Between January and October this year, DRI intercepted and seized around 321kg of smuggled gold, valued at ₹406.35 crore.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

More girls in govt-run CBSE schools, says secy

IT is crucial that society invest more in the education of the girl child, according to the Union Secretary of Education and Literacy, Sanjay Kumar.

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2 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

'Abhay' for anonymity: How Maoists evade police action

ENGLISH playwright William Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet, \"What's in a name?\" For the outlawed CPI (Maoist), the answer is everything. Names, often assumed or symbolic, are a tool of survival, strategy, and connection with the communities in which they operate.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

U’khand village puts cap on wedding expenses

TO curb the rising expenses and the culture of showiness at social ceremonies, the residents of Kandhar village in Uttarakhand's tribal region of Jaunsar-Bawar have passed a social bylaw limiting the gold jewellery married women can wear at weddings and family functions.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

TAKE AI’S HELP FOR SPEEDY JUSTICE

EW phrases encapsulate the despair of the Indian litigant more powerfully than Sunny Deol's anguished outburst in Damini: \"Tareekh pe tareekh\" (hearing after hearing).

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3 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

16-yr-old sprinter breaks 37-yr-old record

AS THE crowd at Chandrasekhar Nair Stadium dispersed on Thursday, Athul T M, the new record holder in 100m Junior Boys, spotted Ram Kumar.

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1 min

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

Kohli’s twin failures, Sharma’s fifty talking points in India’s loss

IT'S hard to find context in an ODI bilateral series with no major events scheduled in that format for the next two years.

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3 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

Trump factor leads PM to duck Malaysia trip, says Cong

THE Congress on Thursday claimed that the reason for Prime Minister Narendra Modi not travelling to Malaysia for the Asean summit was that he does not want to be cornered by US President Donald Trump.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

The New Indian Express Kollam

High on drugs, Indian-origin truck driver kills three in US crash; held

A 21-year-old Indian-origin truck driver, Jashanpreet Singh, who had reportedly entered the US illegally in 2022, has been arrested for causing a semi-truck crash in California's Ontario that snuffed out three lives and injured at least four other people on Tuesday.

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1 mins

October 24, 2025

The New Indian Express Kollam

'United' MahaYuti to contest BMC polls

WITH the Thackeray cousins, Uddhav and Raj, reportedly warming up to each other and hints of a possible alliance in the upcoming BMC elections, the BJP is disinclined to go solo and favours the MahaYuti constituents contesting together to avoid splitting Hindutva and pro-government votes.

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1 mins

October 23, 2025

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