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In case you missed it: News and newsmakers from India over the past week

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The CBSE Class 12 board exams have been cancelled due to Covid’s second wave. The CBSE will compile Class 12 results like it does for Class 10, based on a student’s performance in tests through the year. The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations has also cancelled its Class 12 exams.

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The Central Vista Avenue ­redevelopment is a “vital and ­essential” project of national ­importance, said the Delhi High Court, dismissing a plea against it as ­“motivated” and filed with “ill-intent”. The court also ordered the ­petitioners to pay Rs 1 lakh as it was “not a ­genuine public interest litigation”.

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India has reportedly sent a private jet carrying documents for deportation of Mehul Choksi, 62, from Dominica, where the fugitive diamond merchant, who became an Antigua and Barbuda citizen in 2017, was arrested. In 2018, he fled India when a Rs 13,500 crore bank loan scam surfaced in which he was involved with nephew Nirav Modi.