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TopicNational Testing Agency

Topic: National Testing Agency

Exclusive: NEET leak was designed to leave no trace, until accused ‘recreated paper’ & left digital trail

CBI chargesheet says three NTA subject experts leaked question paper, both for financial gain and to boost success rate of their tuition classes.

Youth’s struggles won’t end with Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Govt must decentralise education

Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.

Parliament panel wants nationwide blacklist of exam firms to stop tainted vendors getting contracts

Amid scrutiny of NTA & exam irregularities, RS panel has asked govt to create national register of blacklisted exam firms, saying companies barred by one agency continue to get contracts elsewhere.

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.

On Camera

PoK is fighting to escape the freedom Pakistan has imposed on it

What began as an assertion of citizenship has become the latest chapter in a struggle that stretches back to the Poonch rebellion of 1947.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

In Delhi, an emotional farewell to former Army chief Gen VN Sharma with full state honours

The three service chiefs paid tributes, along with several former Army chiefs. Friends & fellow soldiers remember him as a 'natural charmer'.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.