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TopicNational Testing Agency

Topic: National Testing Agency

Paper leaks, marksheet mix-ups—it’s a bad time to be a student in India

All the authorities are working to fix the OSM controversies & the NEET paper leak but how many of them actually care about the lakhs of students they’ve mentally burdened?

NEET leak: RSS student wing ABVP slams NTA for ‘creating distrust among students, parents’

‘UGC/CSIR-NET exam plagued by irregularities. Systemic issues cast serious doubt on credibility of examination system,’ ABVP said in resolution passed during national executive council meet.

Re-NEET UG 2026: Modi govt may rope in IAF for logistics, transport of question papers

IAF could be tasked with moving the papers from the printing press to wherever they need to go across the country, it is learnt.

After Bio & Chemistry, comes Physics: CBI makes 11th arrest in NEET leak case, nabs NTA expert from Pune

Manisha Sanjay Havaldar had access to the entire Physics question paper & passed on questions to another prime accused, Manisha Mandhare.

NTA ‘structurally incapacitated’, NEET-UG shift to computer mode won’t fix integrity, says doctors’ body

Doctors' body FAIMA has filed plea in SC against NTA saying it did not implement recommendation of fundamental overhaul of examination's security architecture. ThePrint has accessed details of plea.

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.

Sikar’s NEET performance has been consistently well. Even when there were no ‘paper leaks’

Screenshots are doing rounds on social media, suggesting that Sikar’s high 2024 NEET success rate was because of a paper leak.

ThePrint Exclusive: CBI traces NEET paper leak to prof who was part of NTA panel that set paper

CBI has arrested PV Kulkarni, a professor at Dayanand Science college in Latur, who allegedly leaked the NEET (UG) 2026 exam paper. He is being brought to Delhi.

NEET leak traced to ‘insider’ as CBI finds Pune counsellor got paper from ‘source’ within NTA

Dhananjay Lokhande, CBI says, received the leaked question paper on 28 April, a day before he passed on the question paper to Nashik resident Shubham Khairnar.

NTA chief deletes old LinkedIn post praising ‘machinery behind NEET’ after exam cancellation

NTA director general Abhishek Singh wrote about holding the line on 'security, integrity and confidentiality' during the conduct of the NEET exam. which was cancelled over paper leak allegations.

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Chicago to Hooghly—yoga is coming back to Kolkata after travelling the world

Today, with the celebration of International Day of Yoga in Kolkata, it feels like a beautiful homecoming of yoga to the land from where its message began its journey to the global stage.

India’s Russian oil imports set to hit all-time high this month, ahead of Iran crude comeback

Kpler data shows India's Russian oil imports are on track to reach 2.25 mbpd in June 2026, as prospects of Iranian crude returning to India grow after US-Iran agreement.

SMPP partners with Europe’s KNDS to build loitering munitions in India amid growing military demand

Under the agreement, the loitering munitions will be offered to the Indian Army as part of efforts to address what the companies described as an ‘urgent requirement’.

Why many parties break up when out of power and some don’t

Ideology keeps parties together, or the glue of power. Without either, you face the ongoing defections at an industrial scale.