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KOLKATA - Nasima Khatun, 16, cannot hold a pen in her hands and write. A polio attack when she was five has left her hands crippled. But she has appeared for the Class 10 board exams in West Bengal and wrote the papers holding the pen in her mouth.
SRINAGAR - Winter recess for schools in the Kashmir Valley has been extended by a week in view of adverse weather conditions, an official said Monday.