Anti-neet Protests

NEET-PG 2024: SC refuses to postpone exam, to be conducted on August 11

NEET-PG 2024: The Supreme Court bench said that it will not put the careers of 200,000 candidates in jeopardy for the sake of five individuals

NEET-PG: Exam to be held at 500 'trusted' centres in two shifts on Aug 11

NEET-PG 2024: To prevent cheating incidents, candidates have been assigned to centres located in the same cities as the addresses provided on their application forms

NEET-UG: Toppers to drop from 61 to 17 after IIT-Delhi answer correction

The revised merit list was necessitated after IIT-Delhi, acting on the Supreme Court's direction, concluded that only one of the answers to a question in the physics paper was correct

Bengal govt passes resolution against NEET-UG, calls it 'education scam'

The West Bengal Assembly proposed reinstating the state's previous Joint Entrance-Medical examination, which was formerly administered by the state government

NEET 2024: 'Education minister blamed everyone but himself', says Rahul

NEET 2024 row: Replying to allegations made by Rahul Gandhi in Parliament today, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that no evidence of paper leak has been found in the last seven years

NEET-UG 2024 row: Over 11,000 candidates scored zero or negative marks

NEET-UG: Over 2,250 candidates scored zero marks, while more than 9,400 candidates received negative marks

NEET-UG 2024: 'Paper solved in 45 minutes before exam?', SC asks Centre

NEET-UG update: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the NTA, said an individual photographed the exam papers at a centre in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh between 8 am and 9:20 am on the exam day

NEET-UG 2024: MCC asks medical institutes to release seat matrix by July 20

MCC issues notification urging institutions to upload their seat information promptly

NEET-PG: Exam cancelled amid impersonation threats; to be held on August 11

NEET UG 2024 row: On June 22, the Centre cancelled the NEET-PG exam scheduled for June 23 as a 'precautionary measure'

Education minister Pradhan meets NEET aspirants amid uncertainty over exam

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday met some NEET aspirants at his residence, amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in the conduct of the medical entrance exam this year. According to sources, the students raised issues like the uncertainty prevailing over the fate of the exam which was conducted in May, the delay in the counselling process and ultimately the academic calendar. While there have been demand for a restest from several quarters, the education ministry has maintained the incidents of paper leak were localised, and by cancelling the exam in toto it cannot jeopardise the careers of lakhs of candidates who cleared t he test fairly. The matter has also reached the Supreme Court, which on Thursday adjourned till July 18 the hearing on the clutch of petitions seeking that exam be cancelled and the test be reconducted. The petitioners have probe also sought a probe into the alleged malpractices. The ministry has informed the Supreme Court that a da

NEET-UG 2024: CBI arrests 2 more persons from Patna in alleged leak case

The CBI has arrested two more persons, including a candidate, from Patna in connection with the alleged leakage of NEET-UG paper, taking the total number of arrests by the agency to 11, officials said Tuesday. NEET-UG aspirant Sunny who hails from Nalanda and father of another candidate Ranjit Kumar who is from Gaya have been arrested, they said. The CBI has so far arrested eight persons in Bihar NEET-UG paper leak case and one each in connection with alleged manipulation in Gujarat's Latur and Godhra, and one from Dehradun in connection with general conspiracy, the officials said. The agency had earlier arrested principal and vice principal of Hazaribagh-based Oasis school in the case and two persons who allegedly provided safe premises to NEET candidates where burnt question papers were recovered by the Bihar Police. The CBI, which is probing the alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam, has registered six FIRs. The FIR from Bihar pertains to leakage of paper while the

NEET-UG 2024 row: SC to hear over 30 petitions today on re-exam; updates

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) counselling session has been postponed indefinitely, with no new date announced

NEET-UG 2024 counselling postponed until further notice amid paper leak row

NTA had earlier informed the Supreme Court that counselling would commence on July 6

NEET UG row: Over dozen students detained during march to Parliament

Over a dozen students were detained while attempting to march towards the Parliament on Tuesday to protest against alleged irregularities in several competitive exams. The students belonging to different outfits under the banner "India against NTA" gathered at the Patel Chowk metro station here and started raising "anti-NTA" slogans. Carrying posters and banners with slogans like "sack Union Education Minister" and "NTA must go" written over them, the students staged demonstration against the reported incidents of paper leak and corruption in the medical entrance exam, besides others. The Delhi Police detained the protesting students while they tried to march towards the Parliament to press their demands. "After holding a presser at the Press Club, the students gathered at the Patel Chowk metro station from where they started marching towards the Parliament. Over a dozen students were detained while attempting to do so," said a police officer. Various students outfits under the ba

NEET-UG 2024: Review shows missing CCTVs, unguarded strong rooms at centres

NEET-UG 2024 row: The review conducted on the exam day showed that 399 of 4,000 exam centres lacked the mandated two functioning CCTVs in each exam room

DMK, allies shun Guv's get-together to protest stalling anti-NEET bill

The DMK said that they boycotted the party in order to register their protest against the Governor accusing him of acting "against the Constitution".

Students stage flash protest at Jayalalithaa's mausoleum against NEET exams

Protests took place despite restrictions being imposed on the Matina beach in Chennai