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Committee on NTA reforms to plug irregularities, engage with parents

The seven-member panel met on Monday evening, under the chairmanship of former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K Radhakrishnan

NEET-UG: CBI collects phones, burnt question paper from police; updates

The CBI collected evidence from Bihar's Economic Offences Unit (EOU), which includes a partially burnt question paper, mobile phones, laptops, and post-dated cheques

NEET-UG: 48% students skip retest; what happens to their scorecard now?

NEET-UG 2024: The NTA granted grace marks to over 1,500 candidates to compensate for time lost due to delayed start of exam at six centres. Following a SC order, they were asked to appear for a retest

Govt admits UGC-NET paper leaked. NTA will be investigated

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, on Thursday, said during a press briefing that the University Grants Commission–National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) examination paper was leaked.

NEET row: Cong attacks Centre, says no action against NTA chairman

The Congress on Monday alleged that there has been no action against chairman of the National Testing Agency (NTA) P K Joshi, who is "holding interviews" for appointment of VCs and Directors of premier educational institutes across the country. Congress leader Pawan Khera claimed that last week, Joshi interviewed candidates for the post of Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University Wardha and today he will interview candidates for directorship of the prestigious Indian Institute for Advanced Study (Shimla). He asked whether it was true that the candidates to be interviewed for the coveted post in the institutes are Sanjeev Kumar Sharma and Rajnish Kumar Shukla. "Despite NTA being in the eye of a self created storm, not only has there been no action against its chairman, PK Joshi, he quietly continues to hold interviews for appointment of VCs and Directors at premier educational institutions," Khera said in a post on X. "Should NTA/PK Joshi be allowed to be part of any such select

NEET-UG 2024: Bihar police finds 68 questions matching original exam paper

Economic Offences Unit of Bihar said the NEET-UG exam centre code recovered from burnt paper scraps seized at the residence of arrested candidates belonging to Oasis School in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh

NEET-UG 2024: Centre's 7-member panel on exam reform to meet today; updates

According to the Ministry of Education, the seven-member high-level panel will review the entire examination process and propose ways to enhance system efficiency

Centre's 7-member panel to oversee NTA's functioning to meet amid exam row

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday registered a criminal case for irregularities in the exam and formed special teams to probe the matter

NTA chief removed amid NEET-UG, UGC-NET irregularities allegations

The Ministry of Personnel announced that Singh's services will be kept in compulsory wait in the department of personnel and training till further orders

Centre forms high-level committee to look into functioning of NTA

Panel to recommend reforms in exam process and submit report in 2 months

Centre notifies 7-member panel to reform process of NTA-conducted exams

The Ministry of Education said Saturday it has constituted a high-level committee of experts led by former ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan to ensure transparent, smooth and fair conduct of examinations through the National Testing Agency (NTA). The seven-member committee will make recommendations on reforms in the mechanism of the examination process, improvement in data security protocols and the structure and functioning of the NTA, the Department of Higher Education in the ministry said. It added that the committee will submit its report to the ministry within two months. Central University of Hyderabad Vice-Chancellor Professor B J Rao and former director of AIIMS Delhi Randeep Guleria are on the panel.

UGC-NET exam row: CBI questions suspect in UP in connection with paper leak

The CBI on Saturday questioned a man in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar in connection with the UGC-NET paper leak case, officials said. The suspect, who allegedly posted a portion of the paper on instant messaging service Telegram, was taken to Padrauna Kotwali in the district where he is being questioned by the team of CBI anti-corruption branch, they said. It is understood that the suspect had undertaken coaching for the examination in Kota, Rajasthan, they said. The CBI had registered an FIR into the UGC-NET paper leak case on Thursday against unidentified people on a reference from the Union education ministry. The UGC-NET-2024 exam for the selection of junior research fellows, assistant professors and PhD scholars was conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on June 18 in two shifts across the country. The next day, the University Grants Commission received inputs from the National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (l4C) that the

NTA postpones Joint CSIR UGC-NET exam due to 'unavoidable circumstances'

The testing agency also said that a revised schedule for the conduct of this examination will be announced later through the official website

NEET-UG accused scores 85.8 percentile in Physics and only 5 in Chemistry

NEET-UG 2024 row: The scorecard of Anurag Yadav, one of the four arrested in the alleged paper leak case, shows that he scored 185 out of 720, with a total percentile of 54.84

SC declines to stay process of NEET-UG counselling, issues notice to NTA

A vacation bench of Justices Vikram Nath and SVN Bhatti of the apex court has tagged the fresh pleas along with pending petitions and posted them for hearing on July 8

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

SC notice to govt, NTA on pleas for cancelling NEET-UG, seeks response

The apex court also stayed further proceedings on some pleas on the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate)-2024 examination pending before different high courts in the country

No complaints against UGC-NET; cancelled to protect students: Officials

A day after the UGC-NET was cancelled, Education Ministry officials Thursday said no complaints were received about the exam but a suo motu action was taken on the basis of inputs available with them to protect students' interest. Education Ministry Joint Secretary Govind Jaiswal said the details of the inputs cannot be shared as the matter has been referred to the CBI and is currently under investigation. "No complaints were received but the inputs we received from agencies indicated that the integrity of the exam has been compromised. The action was taken suo motu to safeguard interests of the students," he said. "A fresh date for the exam will be announced soon," Jaiswal told reporters. The ministry on Wednesday cancelled UGC-NET conducted by the National Testing Agency following inputs that the integrity of the examination may have been compromised. The decision by the Ministry comes amid a massive row on the medical entrance exam NEET over alleged irregularities, with the iss

NEET UG 2024: Fresh admit cards for 1563 candidates released by NTA

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued the admit card for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2024 Re-test of 1,563 applicants on the official website at exams.nta.ac.in

What is National Testing Agency, exam body slammed over UGC NET, NEET row?

UGC-NET exam row: The NTA is an autonomous body entrusted with conducting entrance examinations for admission and fellowship in higher educational institutions