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No using toppers’ photos without consent, no false ads. What are govt’s new rules for coaching centres

Central Consumer Protection Authority's new guidelines aim to protect students, parents from 'exploitative practices'. Institutes also asked to refrain from promising guaranteed placements.

‘Was confident of scoring well’ — says Odisha’s Soyeb Aftab on his perfect 720 NEET score

Delhi’s Akanksha Singh has also scored a perfect 720, but was declared the second rank holder as she is younger to Aftab. She now wishes to join AIIMS.

Punjab Dalit topper’s real struggle will be at DU. Village roots vs Netflix culture

Jaspreet Kaur says she hadn’t heard of Miranda House in Delhi University, one of the colleges the Punjab Boards topper has applied to.

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Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.