The chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education, Rahul Singh, and its Secretary Himanshu Gupta have been transferred. This came in the wake of allegations of widespread mismanagement in the Class 12 board examination results.A one-member inquiry committee chaired by S Radha Chauhan, the head of the Capacity Building Commission, has been set up to look into the procurement of On-Screen Marking Services by the board. In the last two weeks, several discrepancies have been flagged in the On-Screen Marking evaluation process.Separately, the CBSE said that its newly-launched Class 12 re-evaluation portal faced a “barrage of cyberattacks”, even as students said that they faced technical problems while trying to access the website. Read on.There is no role for any third party in bilateral matters between India and Nepal, said the Ministry of External Affairs. The statement came in response to a question about Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s statement that Kathmandu had held discussions with China and the United Kingdom regarding the Kalapani-Limpiadhura-Lipulekh region.Randhir Jaiswal, the external affairs ministry spokesperson, said that while close to 98% of the India-Nepali boundary has been demarcated, there are some “unresolved segments” along the border.He added that “there are cases of cross-border occupation and encroachment of no man's land in demarcated segments of the boundary, which are currently being mapped jointly”. Read on. The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at premises linked to the Vedanta Group as part of an investigation into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act. The details of the case were not immediately clear.A spokesperson for the Anil Agarwal-led conglomerate said that the Vedanta Group was “extending full cooperation” to the authorities and providing all information that has been sought. Read on.The southwest monsoon is expected to set in over Kerala around June 4, said the India Meteorological Department. The weather agency had earlier forecast that the monsoon would arrive in the state by May 26, but later acknowledged that its prediction was not likely to be accurate.The IMD has also revised its prediction downwards to 90% of the long-period average. The expected shortfall this year is primarily due to the likely development of El Niño conditions in the equatorial Pacific Ocean after June. Read on. Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti wrote a series of letters to political leaders from the Union Territory, calling for a “united outreach” to the Union government. She said that the recent “breakthroughs” achieved by the Leh Apex Body and the Kargil Democratic Alliance in their negotiations with the Union government offered a lesson that “only dialogue can deliver meaningful outcomes”.In her letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Mufti said that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir “necessitates a broad consensus above and across party, and partisan lines to pull J&K out of the current debilitating stalemate”. Read on. ‘We have been made fools’: Why J&K’s hopes for Omar Abdullah government have soured in a year, reported Safwat ZargarIf you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.