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2 doctors, 3 students, Rs 235 GPay trail: Key witnesses who are propping up CBI’s NEET paper leak case

Two doctors who allegedly paid Rs 3 lakh each, three students who got leaked questions and a man who paid Rs 235 via GPay are among key witnesses in the CBI’s NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case.

‘Cockroach’, CJI & meme-ification of courtroom. Plea seeking protection of judicial dignity reaches SC

Invoking Kafka, petitioner wants CBI probe into unauthorised commercial and trademark use of oral courtroom observations and symbolic expressions.

Govt panel wants CBI to probe more digital arrest scams, wants Rs 10 crore threshold cut to Rs 1 crore

The Rs 10-crore threshold is itself recent. On 9 February, the CBI began taking up digital-arrest cases involving losses of Rs 10 crore or more. 

How Chhattisgarh HC struck balance by striking down ‘illegal’ phone tapping but refusing to quash FIR

Court held that phone tapping requires constitutional safeguards, invalidating interception before authorisation, while allowing the corruption prosecution to proceed on other evidence.

Entry logs, CCTV footage, WhatsApp chats—How CBI pieced together NEET-UG 2026 paper leak jigsaw

MyGate entry logs, CCTV footage and WhatsApp chats have emerged as key evidence in the CBI probe into the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak and the role of NTA subject experts.

CBI seeks general consent from 14 states to probe cybercrime, year after panel flagged delays

The CBI has approached chief secretaries of 14 states for general consent to investigate cybercrime, amid concerns that case-by-case approvals delay probes and strain resources.

The making of NEET paper leak—10 students, online-offline classes, a batch called ‘FIFA World Cup 2026’

CBI chargesheet says online & offline classes to leak biology, chemistry, physics questions were held by the accused for select candidates over several months.

Paper leak worse than murder, Chhattisgarh HC says as it denies bail to ex-secy in CGPSC scam case

Retd IAS Jeevan Kishore Dhruv, who served as secretary to Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC), was arrested by CBI last year in connection with irregularities in 2021 exam.

Jharkhand paper leak stir: Stalemate over probe; students don’t trust CID, Soren doesn’t trust CBI, ED

Students are protesting at Ranchi’s Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium over alleged irregularities in competitive exams & demanding CBI probe. State govt has launched probe by CID.

Not a single exam malpractice case tried in 23 years. New special court could change that

26 CBI cases related to malpractices in admission & job-related examinations have been pending in Delhi courts.

On Camera

Why AI hasn’t triggered the predicted white-collar layoffs

AI jobs debate asks the wrong question. The real issue is how fast workers adjust, not why jobs vanish.

Winner-takes-all Wimbledon-style payoffs await India’s white-collar workers

Most salaried Indians assume that they will earn the same amount every month for the rest of their careers. However, as gig jobs replace office jobs, earnings are likely to become more volatile.

Army chief in Nepal, clamour grows for Gorkha recruitment under Agnipath

Former Nepalese soldiers and aspirants want Kathmandu to allow recruitment to resume and to renew recognition of ex-servicemen's organisations whose names include the word 'soldier'.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman