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NEET UG 2024 exam date The NEET UG 2024 exam is scheduled to be held on May 5, with the results being declared on June 14, 2024. The exam will have a total duration of three hours and 20 minutes (200 minutes) and will take place from 2 PM to 5:20 PM. Eligility To be eligible for the NEET UG 2024, you must be at least 17 years old at the time of admission or will reach that age by December 31 of the admission year. Additionally, you need to have cleared Class 12 or an equivalent exam from a recognized board with physics, chemistry, biology, and English as subjects. The minimum marks required for Class 12 vary based on the applicant's category. For General Category candidates, a minimum of 50% in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology combined is required. However, candidates in the SC/ST/OBC-NCL categories must meet a slightly lower minimum requirement of 40% aggregate marks in the same subjects.

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China's consumer prices rose for the first time in six months, providing some reprieve for the world's second-biggest economy, which faces sluggish demand, a property slump and high local government debt, although producer prices dropped. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.7% year-on-year in February, after the steepest fall of 0.8% in over 14 years in January, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Saturday.

workers were injured after a portion of an under-construction medical college building in Gujarat's Morbi collapsed on Friday evening, officials said. According to officials, four of the workers engaged in filling the roof were injured in the collapse incident that took place at around 8:00 pm. Police said that the incident, which took place during the filling work on the first floor of the medical college's new building, resulted in a slab collapse, leaving at least four workers injured.

Mass shootings at schools have prompted a growing number of states to encourage digital mapping to aid emergency responders

₹10,000 crore worth UNNATI scheme. He will also inaugurate, dedicate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth about ₹55,600 crore in Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh. He will reach Jorhat at around 12:15 PM and unveil the magnificent statue of renowned Ahom general Lachit Borphukan and participate in a public programme in Jorhat, and inaugurate, dedicate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than ₹17,500 crore in Assam," the release said.

graphic processing units (GPUs) that are deemed essential for the creation of artificial intelligence-based applications and models is a “good starting point” as it strives to stay apace with global leaders in the rapidly evolving area of AI innovation, top investors and technologists said. The Rs 10,372-crore Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission, announced on Thursday, will operate on a public-private partnership model. It will extend GPUs as a digital public infrastructure that can offer AI-as-a-service.

foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have been asked by the Indian tax office on whether they have borrowed money to trade on stock exchanges. It’s unclear why the information was sought, but the Income Tax (I-T) department has directed these offshore funds to disclose the identities of the lenders, the latter’s source of money, and the nature of agreement between the two parties. The move to fish out such information could well be to trace any possible and indirect links between overseas portfolio managers with Indian companies and promoters, feel some of the tax and finance professionals.

on Friday: Costco Wholesale Corp., down $60.03 to $725.56. The warehouse club operator's fourth-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street forecasts. Marvell Technology Inc., down $9.67 to $75.42.

BlackRock Inc. said it’s acquiring SpiderRock Advisors, an asset management and technology firm, to expand its customized investing strategies to wealthy clients.

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Election Commissioner within the next few days, 2024 is likely to be the first Lok Sabha election since 1996 when the poll panel will announce and conduct general elections steered by a two-member commission instead of the customary three-member one. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has been a multi-member body since the 1990s and has conducted eight Lok Sabha elections in such a format. Only in two cases, that is during the 1999 and 2009 Lok Sabha polls, was the three-member ECI rendered short by one member, due to members' retirement in the middle of the election cycle.

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NEW DELHI : Amidst global economic uncertainties and supply chain disruptions, the government has expanded the scope of a scheme designed to make Indian exports more competitive globally by refunding various central, state and other local duties and taxes. The government has expanded the Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme to support advance authorisation holders, export-oriented units, and special economic zones.

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authorisation holders and export-oriented units (EOUs) from mandatory quality control orders for imported goods that are used as inputs for exports. It said that the exemption will be with pre-import conditions, and those inputs will be utilised in the manufacturing of the export products. «Enabling provisions are made for exempting inputs imported by Advance Authorisation holders and EOUs from mandatory Quality Control Orders (QCOs),» the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification. The unutilised material will be destroyed in the presence of jurisdictional GST/customs authorities, it added.

Italy's data protection agency said on Friday it had opened an investigation into a service developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI that can generate videos based on text prompts. The regulator, known as Garante, asked OpenAI to clarify whether the way it informs users and non users about the data it employs for its product, known as Sora, is in line with European Union regulations.

Tie-Con Delhi-NCR, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said that the government will invite bids from the industry under the mission and provide viability gap funding for GPU-based computing infrastructure. «The entire GPU approved under the mission will be made available in the next 18-24 months,» Krishnan said.

Previous Elections and Current Scenario: In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Telangana played a crucial role as one of the opening states. With little change in the state's political landscape over the past five years, it is likely to retain this significance in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, tentatively scheduled for April. The official confirmation will be provided following the Election Commission of India's (ECI) announcement of election dates.

Germany’s top prosecutor has taken over the investigation into an alleged arson attack on the power supply of the electric car company Tesla near Berlin