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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
TopicPaper leak

Topic: Paper leak

NTA’s one-size-fits-all testing approach isn’t working. Raise the assessment bar

It’s important to endow the NTA with the authority and framework to establish a collaborative mechanism involving law enforcement and intelligence agencies at federal and state levels.

Life in prison, Rs 1-cr fine, stringent bail conditions — UP cabinet nod to anti-paper leak ordinance

Ordinance will come into effect once it is approved by governor, set to become law after it is passed in assembly, following which the existing 1998 law will be repealed.

In 1st case under new anti paper leak law, Maharashtra Police book 4 for malpractice related to NEET

2 teachers Sanjay Tukaram Jadhav & Jalil Umarkhan Pathan have been arrested while other 2, Iranna Kongalwar & Gangadhar, are absconding. Gangadhar's believed to be 'key person' in the case.

NEET paper leak: Bihar EOU finds burnt booklet ‘100% match’ with original T3 set, says envelop ‘tampered’

Bihar Police traced box & envelope in which the T3 set was dispatched, found that envelope was 'torn on rear side & re-sealed', it is learnt. Courier company Blue Dart under scanner.

NEET ‘leak’: Bihar finds Jharkhand link, ‘lapses’ by Blue Dart & SBI after submitting report to Centre

EOU conveyed to education ministry that sanctity of NEET-UG 2024 exam was breached by inter-stage gang. Bihar govt has granted CBI to consent to probe suspected leak, it is learnt.

Jumbled questions to 2 rounds of ID checks, UP govt issues exam guidelines amid paper leak backlash

Guidelines include directives for process of selection of exam centres, selection of agencies for preparing question papers, transporting OMR sheets, preventing impersonation etc.

Urdu press takes up cudgels over paper leaks, says ‘system promoting mafia’

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Hopes dashed by controversy-marred results, NEET 2024 students go back to their textbooks

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Rampant mark inflation in NEET — 715 was top score 2 yrs ago, now it can mean 225th rank

Rank inflation is seen even among toppers with 67 candidates getting perfect score of 720. Entire issue is about how much inflation has happened, say NEET stakeholders.

Amid NEET results mess, NTA goes on social media Q&A spree. ‘Is it a fact-checking body?’ ask X users

National Testing Agency, which maintains there was no paper leak, is actively putting out posts on results & responding to each query posted by students and politicians alike.

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Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.