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Scrapping NEET-UG not rational: Centre asks SC not to jeopardise med exam

NEET row: The central government told the Supreme Court that no widespread irregularities were found in the medical entrance exam

Maharashtra govt tables bill to curb malpractices in competitive exams

Amid concerns over exam paper leaks, the Maharashtra government on Friday tabled a bill in the state legislative assembly that aims to prevent malpractices in competitive examinations, and provides for a jail term of up to five years to the offenders. The bill titled 'Maharashtra Competitive Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024', was tabled by minister Shambhuraj Desai in the lower house of the state legislature. Under the bill, the offences related to the conduct of competitive examinations shall be cognisable, non-bailable and non-compoundable. According to the bill, those found indulging in unfair means and offences in the conduct of competitive examinations shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not less than three years, which may be extended to five years and with a fine of up to Rs 10 lakh. In case of default of payment of fine, an additional punishment of imprisonment shall be imposed as per provisions of Bharaitya Nyaya Sanhita 2023. The service ...

NEET PG 2024 exam, postponed last month, to be held on August 11. Details

NEET-PG 2024: The Union health ministry had postponed the exam as a "precautionary measure" amid the ongoing crisis linked to the alleged mismanagement in conducting the NEET-UG 2024 examination

NEET-PG 2024 exam: Question papers to be prepared two hours before exam

Originally scheduled for June 23, the NEET-PG exam was postponed just hours before its commencement due to allegations of irregularities in the undergraduate exam

NEET PG: Exam date not to be released today, will be announced this week

On June 22, the NEET PG exam was postponed by the NBE less than 12 hours before the exam was to be held. Now, the exam is expected to be held in August

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

NEET: How exam cancellations impact students' mental health, wallets & more

NEET row: Competitive exam cancellations and delays amid irregularities leave students' future in a state of limbo

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

Fallout of NEET-PG exam row: Many aspirants look to foreign shores

Postponement of NEET-PG puts spanner in the works of candidates planning to go for post-MBBS courses

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

'Two correct options for one question'; candidate challenges legality in SC

One of the questions in the NEET-UG 2024 examination has two correct answers. The candidate files a plea in the Supreme Court challenging its legality. SC schedules the matter for 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

NEET-UG row: Cong protests, Pradhan orders action against NTA. Key updates

The Congress is planning a nation-wide protest demanding justice for students, a day after Rahul Gandhi mocked PM Modi for 'being able to stop Ukraine war' but failing to stop paper leaks

NEET 2024: Prime accused admits to arranging exam papers for 4 candidates

In a startling revelation in the NEET paper leak case, prime accused Sikander Prasad Yadvendu in his confessional statement admitted to having arranged question papers for four exam aspirants to "prepare" them a day before the test and demanded Rs 40 lakh from each candidate. According to sources in the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar police, Yadvendu's confessional statement, recorded under Section 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on May 5, also detailed his contacts with Nitish Kumar and Amit Anand, allegedly known for leaking prestigious exam papers such as NEET. Yadvendu claimed that he demanded Rs 40 lakh from each aspirant, including his nephew Anurag Yadav, for providing the leaked question paper on May 4, a day before the exam. Yadvendu, a junior engineer at Bihar's Danapur Town Council, said, "I contacted Nitish and Amit and told them that I have four candidatesAyush Kumar, Anurag Yadav, Abhishek Kumar, and Shivnandan Kumar." Yadvendu claimed that Nitish and

NEET UGC-NET updates: Govt not even able to conduct exam, how can they rule this country, says Rahul

NEET exam and UGC NET latest news updates : A fresh date for UGC-NET will be announced soon, a top official said today. Hall tickets for NEET-UG re-exam have been released on neet.ntaonline.in.

NEET-UG 2024 row deepens as 4 arrested confess to question paper leak

In their statement to Bihar police, the arrested men confessed to having received the exam questions a day prior to the test and memorising them

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

NEET-UG row: Even 0.001% negligence should be dealt with, says SC

Allegations such as the question paper leak and the grant of grace marks to over 1,500 medical aspirants led to protests and the filing of cases in seven high courts and the Supreme Court