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Constitution in Parliament as Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha. Home Minister Amit Shah was also greeted in a similar manner. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan took oath as Lok Sabha member amid chants of NEET-NET by the opposition members even as a controversy is raging on the entrance examinations that has put the government in the dock. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool leader Kalyan Banerjee, and Samajwadi Party leaders Akhilesh Yadav and Awadhesh Prasad were seated in the first row in the opposition benches. In a prestige battle, Prasad defeated the two-time sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh from Faizabad, the constituency that comprises Ayodhya, by a margin of 54,567 votes.

NEET-UG paper leak have found out how “handlers” operate in a tech savvy, shady realm of a nationwide exam racket, rooted in Bihar and Jharkhand. «The nine handlers arrested in the NEET-UG case so far six in Jharkhand and three in Bihar — are tech-savvy individuals who played a crucial role in orchestrating the leak of question papers, training examinees who paid for these to memorise the answers, and even escorting them to their respective centres,» a senior police officer said to TOI. The six arrested in Jharkhand were masquerading as labourers and were residing in a rented accommodation. The aim was to make sure the leaked papers reached the target while maintaining high secrecy and anonymity.

MPs from the Opposition INDIA bloc are expected to enter the Lok Sabha together on the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, which will begin on Monday, sources said. According to sources, the opposition leaders will assemble where the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was placed earlier. They are also likely to carry a copy of the Constitution with them. The Congress MPs will also gather at the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) office in Parliament House this morning.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in May for the third straight month as rising mortgage rates and record-high prices discouraged many prospective homebuyers during what’s traditionally the housing market’s busiest period of the year

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grace marks in NEET-UG appeared for a retest on Sunday, officials said. The retest was conducted at seven centres following an order from the Supreme Court. The grace marks were awarded to make up for the loss of time at six centres where the examination started late on May 5. «At least 52 per cent — 813 out of 1,563 candidates — appeared for the retest on Sunday,» a senior National Testing Agency (NTA) official said. Amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam, the NTA on Sunday debarred 17 candidates who had appeared for the exam on May 5 at centres in Bihar.

allegations of question paper leak in the NEET-UG exam 2024. The Bihar Police is actively probing the case.

NEET-UG 2024 has been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for comprehensive investigation, said Education Ministry officials on Saturday. This comes after National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General Subodh Singh was shunted out today, amid a massive controversy that has erupted over exams NEET and NET. An official said he has been put on «compulsory wait» in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) till further orders. India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) Chairman and Managing Director Pradeep Singh Kharola has been assigned additional charge of the testing agency till appointment of a regular incumbent.

NTA Director General Subodh Kumar Singh was removed from his position on Saturday and placed on «compulsory wait» in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). India Trade Promotion Organisation Chairman and MD Pradeep Singh Kharola has been assigned the additional charge of NTA DG. This move comes amidst a growing controversy over alleged irregularities in the conduct of exams.

NEET-UG and the UGC-NET tests, is «damage control», Congress leader Jairam Ramesh claimed on Saturday. This law was needed but it deals with question paper leaks and other irregularities after they have occurred, he claimed in a post on X. Several opposition political parties and student associations, including the Congress, have held protests across the country over alleged irregularities in medical entrance exam NEET-UG and the UGC-NET. Amid the raging row over the issue, the Centre on Friday operationalised the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, that aims to curb malpractices and irregularities in competitive examinations and entails provisions for a maximum jail term of 10 years and a fine of up to Rs 1 crore for offenders.

Edmonton Oilers are entering territory few teams have charted in the NHL post-season, let alone in a Stanley Cup Final.After dropping the first three games of the best-of-seven championship series to the Florida Panthers, the Oilers have won two straight and will host Game 6 on Friday night. An Edmonton win would force a deciding Game 7 on Monday evening in Sunrise, Fla.The Oilers are hoping to become the fifth NHL team to come back from an 0-3 deficit to win a series.

Crude prices eased about 1% on Friday on worries that global oil demand growth could be reduced by a strong U.S. dollar and negative economic news from some parts of the world. Prices declined despite signs of improving U.S. oil demand and falling fuel inventories that boosted crude prices to a seven-week high a day earlier.

National Testing Agency which conducts the NEET-UG examinations should be scrapped as crores of students who are future of India are suffering. He also called for the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. «If he (Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan) is taking moral responsibility, we have heard in politics that people who take moral responsibility resign from their posts. But he is doing nothing of that sort… It is clear that papers are being leaked, they are being sold. This is a kind of commercialisation that is happening,» Yechury told ANI.

UGC-NET and NEET-UG, the two important national-level examinations, have triggered a political row with opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of being more concerned about Lok Sabha Speaker's election scheduled next week.The Union Education Ministry on June 19 cancelled the University Grants Commission–National Eligibility Test (NET) after concerns were raised about the exam's integrity. The UGC-NET 2024 was conducted on June 18 across 317 cities.Also Read: ‘Millions of dreams…,’ ABVP, other RSS affiliates express unease over NTA role amid NEET, UGC-NET 2024 row: ReportThe cancellation of UGC-NET came amid ongoing controversy over alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam - NEET.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other RSS affiliates, including its student wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), The Indian Express reported.The Union Education Ministry on June 19 cancelled the University Grants Commission–National Eligibility Test (NET) after concerns were raised about the exam's integrity. The UGC-NET 2024 was conducted on June 18 across 317 cities. Also Read: NEET, UGC-NET 2024 row: 10 year jail term, ₹1 Cr fine as punishments in new ‘anti-paper leak’ law.

probe, cancellation and retest of NEET-UG, 2024 exam on grounds of question paper leak and other malpractices, on Friday. On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a notice regarding a plea by the National Testing Agency (NTA) seeking to transfer all petitions related to the NEET-UG 2024 examination from various High Courts to the apex court. The bench, led by Justice Vikram Nath, also stayed proceedings before different High Courts but emphasized that it would not halt the ongoing counseling process. Additionally, the SC issued a notice to the Centre and the NTA in response to a petition filed by students who appeared for the NEET-UG exam at the Meghalaya center. These students claimed they lost 45 minutes during the exam and requested to be included among the 1,563 students who were granted grace marks and offered a re-exam on June 23. The Court has scheduled the hearing for these pleas on July 8.

UGC-NET exams this year. Until now, allegations of fraud and paper leaks were linked to only some state exams. An estimated 2.4 million science stream students just out of school have been trapped by allegations of exam paper leak to row over awarding grace marks related to NEET. If this was not misery enough for the student community and parents, the overnight cancellation of UGCNET for doctorate aspirants has added to their woes. Though both exams are very different in terms of career options, they are conducted by the National Testing Agency and are currently pen-paper tests. The health ministry resisted an online format for NEET, while UGC-NET successfully run as a computer-based test (CBT) since 2018 was suddenly moved to a paper-based optical mark reader (OMR) test this year, baffling many as tests do not move back from online to pen-paper mode normally.

NEET exams have intensified due to allegations of leaked question papers and biased markings, a heated political controversy has sparked in Bihar.The claims made by the accused individuals have sparked a conflict between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is part of the ruling coalition led by the Janata Dal (United), and the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).Also Read: NEET UG 2024 row: Arrested candidate confesses leaked question paper ‘matched the actual exam paper’At the heart of this conflict is each political faction's alleged association with the accused, particularly Sikandar Yadavendu, whom authorities suspect to be the mastermind behind the alleged operation.Four individuals reported to the police that the exam paper was leaked 24 hours before the scheduled exam date on May 4th. The individuals include Anurag Yadav, a NEET candidate, his uncle Sikandar Yadavendu, and Nitish Kumar and Amit Anand.Also Read: NEET-UG 2024 row: Supreme Court seeks responses from Centre, NTA on paper leak allegationsAnurag Yadav stated that his uncle had given him the leaked paper, which “contained questions identical to those on the actual exam."Meanwhile, Bihar Deputy CM Vijay Sinha alleged, “On May 1, Tejashwi Yadav's personal secretary Pritam Kumar called guesthouse worker Pradip Kumar to book a room for Sikander Kumar Yadavendu...

There have been stories in the media recently about the huge amount of cash that active equity mutual fund (MF) schemes have been sitting on lately. As of May 2024, in absolute terms, this amounted to around ₹1.17 lakh crore against ₹95,969 crore in December 2023, according to data from the financial services platform Fisdom. This sounds like a lot of money. But as a percentage of the total assets under management of equity MF schemes, it was at 5.1% in May and 4.9% in December, not materially very different.

Allahabad High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Ayushi Patel, a NEET-UG aspirant, who alleged that the National Testing Agency (NTA) had failed to declare her result and that her OMR answer sheet was torn. The court found that Patel had submitted forged documents in her petition. Patel claimed that the NTA had informed her that her result would not be declared due to the torn OMR sheet. She demanded a manual evaluation of her OMR sheet, an inquiry against the NTA, and a halt to the admission counselling process. However, upon a court order, the NTA presented the original OMR sheet, which was found to be intact. «NTA can take legal action in the matter,» Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan said in his order. NTA told the court the decision to initiate legal action against the student, Ayushi Patel of Lucknow, had already been taken.

Canada’s population surpassed 41 million in April, just 10 months after it hit 40 million in June 2023.