SRINAGAR, Oct. 29 -- Amid a tense situation, Board of School Education (BOSE) conducted examination for 65,000 tenth class regular students in the Kashmir valley on Tuesday.

10th class exams are being conducted even asclasswork in schools remained suspended since August 5 when a curfew was clamped on Kashmir and a communication blackout was clamped ahead of scraping of Kashmir's special status.

Students complainedof hardship due to non-availability of public transport.

They said the examination started at 1230 hrs and commenced at 1530 hrs. But, students alleged that they faced a lot of hardship while commuting from homes to their respective examination centres due to non-availability of public transport.

Meanwhile reports have come in ...