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What we know about NEET (UG) ‘leak’—PDF that got 120 of 180 questions right, Nashik student detained

NTA has cancelled NEET (UG) 2026 exam held on 3 May citing alleged irregularities. Rajasthan SOG was initially probing the matter which has now been handed over to the CBI.

In Anand, new chapter unfolds for Verghese Kurien-founded institute—with a crucial test of legacy

Institute of Rural Management Anand, a nearly 50-year-old institution, is now Tribhuvan Sahkari University. The teething troubles on campus are real, but so is the momentum.

India’s school system is failing the test. NITI Aayog flags dropouts, weak learning outcomes

A new NITI Aayog report highlights that close to 1.04 lakh schools have one teacher each, 35% have under 50 students and higher secondary enrolment is just 58.4%.

Haryana women’s panel chief visits suicide-hit NIT Kurukshetra, cites ‘online gambling, credit card debt’

NIT Kurukshetra has seen four student deaths, allegedly by suicide, since 16 February, which prompted the govt-run institute to declare early vacation and close hostels.

RTE hurt school learning outcomes, affecting both reading & math proficiency—NITI Aayog working paper

Preliminary paper by NITI Aayog member is a data-intensive assessment of India’s education system, whose findings conflict the narrative of progress that has accompanied both RTE & NEP 2020.

Driven by IITs, Indian universities are fastest climbers in global QS subject rankings

2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject data showed that 44% of India’s entries in the rankings moved up this year, driven largely by engineering and computer science.

Graduate and unemployed: India’s middle-class rulebook for career & success no longer works

Saurabh Mukherjea, Nandita Rajhansa and Sapana Bhavsar highlight 5 beliefs contradicted by India's economic data in their book 'Breakpoint: The Crisis of the Middle Class and the Future of Work'.

Pune’s rise as a coaching hub: It’s cheaper than Delhi, more ‘human’ than Kota

Laidback Pune is powering India’s coaching economy with surge in big coaching centres as well as local institutes, and huge rush of students.

Private universities filed 32x more patents than govt universities. Actual grants tell a different story

Top 50 private institutes logged a patent grant rate of just two percent in FY24-25, while government institutes logged a 31 percent rate, while filing for a significantly fewer grants.

Class trouble: Why over half of Mumbai’s BMC school students drop out along the way

New report says only 48% of students who joined BMC schools in Class 1 in 2015–16 stayed till Class 10. Limited secondary schools and missing dropout data make it harder to track where students go.

On Camera

NEET paper leak came from a hole that wasn’t plugged in 2024. NTA is ignoring its problems

The students who paid Rs 5 lakh for a leaked paper and the students who paid Rs 5 lakh for legitimate coaching did not sit the same exam. That is the real scandal.

Petrol, diesel prices hiked by Rs 3 per litre as Centre moves to ease OMC losses

The hike comes amid soaring global energy costs, with government citing mounting under-recoveries and fiscal pressure on state-run oil firms

Drones no longer enablers, they’re replacing manned aircraft roles—CISC Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit

Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.