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TopicNEET exam

Topic: NEET exam

The pressure cooker life of a 16-year-old Indian student

Built on fear and fuelled by competition, India's coaching industry and an endless parade of entrance exams are consuming childhood. ThePrint tracked the lives of 16-year-olds across seven cities.

Why India’s NEET V2.0 exam should worry us all

Relying on war-like efforts and prime-ministerial intervention for NEET exposes a deep lack of institutional strength.

22-year-old NEET aspirant dies by suicide over paper leak in Sikar—stressed about reexam

The paper leak forced many aspirants back to coaching hubs, where mentors encountered hundreds of depressed and demoralised students.

How students in Sikar are dealing with the re-NEET announcement

Mentors and coaching institutes shift to crisis mode as students abandon vacations to battle for medical college seats all over again.

NTA posts edgy message on X, deletes after student backlash. Now it’s talking stress relief

Already under scrutiny for exam management, the agency's latest social media blunder adds to growing concerns over its transparency.

‘Judgments binding, not optional’—SC steps in again, orders NEET disability norms rewrite by March

The court pulled up the National Medical Commission and the Directorate General of Health Services, asking them to abide by its February 2025 judgment.

Year after NEET fiasco, NTA facing heat again as exam troubles persist despite assurances of reform

This is the 2nd consecutive year the agency has faced criticism over the conduct of NEET-UG, and the alleged failure to conduct exams smoothly is not limited to just that test.

For disabled NEET aspirants, every win in court feels like a loss in practice. Blame NMC

Despite the SC’s explicit guidance, the NMC continues to rely on a percentage-based model to disqualify disabled NEET applicants, with no mention of a detailed functionality assessment.

SC ends domicile quota in PG medical admissions. What ruling says & why southern states are unhappy

Verdict eliminates practice of reserving 50% PG medical seats in state-run colleges for residents of state, ensuring admissions under state quota are determined solely on merit.

NMC decides to hold NEET-UG in pen & paper mode again this year. Not online, as govt panel advised

NTA, which conducts NEET-UG 2025, advises candidates to use APAAR ID for registration. Meanwhile, students and coaches ask why Radhakrishnan panel’s recommendations were ignored.

On Camera

Pakistan’s paradox under Asim Munir: A broker for the world, a bruised state for citizens

Pakistan is busy monetising on geopolitical disorder even as disorder consumes its own peripheries.

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

Gen VN Sharma, who led Army in the turbulent late eighties, dies at 97

Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.

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.