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What happened in last hearing?In the July 18 hearing, the top court also flagged the NTA's “hypothesis" that the paper was “leaked", solved and memorised by students withing justy 45 minutes. The lawyer appearing for one of the petitioner alleged that there was increase in the syllabus for the exam and the changes were notified just few months before.

Bangladesh situation remaining tense and volatile, notwithstanding the decision by the country's Supreme Court on Sunday to scrap the student reservation policy which is the genesis of the current crisis. Opposition BNP through the Jamaat-e-Islami has threatened to unseat the Hasina government and has launched a campaign to influence the country's Army to prevent it from safeguarding the dispensation. A fake letter signed by «junior officers» of Bangladesh Army was circulated with an aim to pressurise the Army Chief to take a neutral stand. Dhaka-based sources told ET that the country's security establishment is backing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On Sunday Bangladesh's Supreme Court scrapped most of the quotas that have sparked protests and in which at least 114 people have been killed. The Supreme Court's Appellate Division dismissed a lower court order that had reinstated the quotas, directing that 93% of government jobs will be open to candidates on merit, without quotas, reports said.

National Testing Agency (NTA) published the full results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) 2024 on its website, the Centre has maintained its claim that there is no evidence of any large-scale irregularities in the examination. Preliminary analysis of the data indicated that the highest number of students with highest scores are from Rajasthan, with as many as 482 students securing 700 plus score. A similar score was secured by 205 students in Madhya Pradesh; 194 in Kerala and 184 in Uttar Pradesh. Government sources have rejected the apprehensions that irregularities may have taken place at other centres. Government sources have maintained that the «breach» of the examination paper was «localised» and occurred only at one centre in Bihar.«Despite the breach at one centre in Bihar and hiring seven solvers, the beneficiaries (students) of wrongdoing could not benefit substantially,» said a government official on the condition of anonymity.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said in wake of the violence in Bangladesh, she would keep the doors of her state open for people in distress and offer them shelter, referring to the United Nations resolution on refugees. «If someone knocks at my door seeking refuge due to trouble in Bangladesh, I will give them shelter,» Banerjee said, adding, «Don't worry if you have family members in Bangladesh, or people who have come here and got stuck, we will help them. If people come here in a helpless state and the people knock at the door of Bengal, we will surely give them shelter. We will not step in or talk about it as Bangladesh is a sovereign and the Indian government will speak about it. Our empathy and solidarity are with people and students as many lives were lost,» Banerjee said. «We are sad to see so many deaths and my heart goes out to those students who were killed,» she further said. «I should not be speaking on the affairs of Bangladesh as it is a subject matter of the Centre,» Banerjee added. The West Bengal CM's comments came amid the ongoing protests in Bangladesh that erupted over demands of an end to a quota system that reserves up to 30% government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971 against Pakistan.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offered shelter to people in distress from Bangladesh, sources in the Central government said a state administration has no locus standi on the issue. These matters are handled by the Union government and the comments are «totally misplaced», the sources said. In an address at a public event in Kolkata, Banerjee, referring to violence-hit Bangladesh, said she would keep the doors of West Bengal open for people in distress from the neighbouring country and offer them shelter. «These are matters which are handled by the Union government,» said a source in the Central government.

CUET UG Result 2024 Live Updates: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to release the results of the Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate (CUET-UG) 2024 anytime soon. According to some media reports, the NTA will declare the CUET-UG 2024 exam result on Monday, July 22.

Bangladesh via land ports came to a standstill on Sunday as there was no movement of cargo trucks to and fro due to the ongoing student protests in the neighbouring country, officials said. The Bangladeshi side of the Petrapole landport remained non-functional, they said. Nearly one-third of land-based trade between India and Bangladesh takes place through Petrapole. «Trade from other land ports to Bangladesh, including Petrapole, Gojadanga, Fulbari, and Mahadipur, has also stalled as Bangladeshi Customs announced a two-day holiday from Sunday, following the government's declaration of a holiday except for essential services due to unrest,» West Bengal Exporters' Coordination Committee Secretary Ujjal Saha said. The cargo trucks that crossed over to Bangladesh on Saturday from Mahadipur port in Malda have not returned, but they are safe, he said.

Education Minister Atishi has sanctioned the release of Rs 100 crore for the financial year's second quarter to fund 12 Delhi University colleges. This amount represents the second instalment of the Delhi government's financial commitment to the colleges. According to a statement issued on Sunday, the Delhi government has allocated a budget of Rs 400 crore for 12 colleges for the fiscal year 2024-25. Atishi gave her nod to release the second instalment for the 12 colleges funded by the Delhi government.

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Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for government job applicants after it led to nationwide unrest and deadly clashes between police and protesters that have killed scores of people. The Supreme Court in its verdict ordered 93% of the government jobs to be allocated on a merit-based system, leaving the remaining 7% for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971 and other categories. Earlier, the system reserved 30% of such jobs the relatives of war veterans. Sunday's verdict comes after weeks of demonstrations — mostly led by students — that turned deadly on Tuesday after protesters began clashing with police. During the week, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and hurled smoke grenades to scatter stone-throwing protesters who filled the streets and university campuses. Sporadic clashes in some parts of Dhaka, the capital, were reported on Saturday but it was not immediately clear whether there were any fatalities.

violence-hit Bangladesh through integrated check posts in Tripura, a Border Security Force official said here on Sunday. Of the total returnees, 365 crossed over the international border on Saturday and four on Friday, he said. The returnees include three Nepalese students. «A total of 379 students entered India in the past 48 hours from violence-hit Bangladesh through check posts at Srimantapur in Sepahijala and Agartala (Akhaura) in West Tripura, and more are expected to return on Sunday,» the BSF official said.

The nationwide demonstrations — called for mainly by student groups — began weeks ago to protest a quota system that reserves up to 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. Violence erupted Tuesday, with the Daily Prothom Alo newspaper on Saturday reporting the death of at least 103 people so far. Bangladeshi authorities haven't shared any official numbers of those killed and injured.

Jamaat-e-Islami backed by Pakistan's ISI, is under the scanner for instigating violence and transforming student protests into a political movement in Bangladesh that has impacted the routine of millions including Indian students there, nearly 1,000 of whom have returned so far. The motive of Pakistan's army and ISI is to destabilise the Shiekh Hasina government and bring the opposition BNP back in power through protests and street violence, highly placed sources told ET. The Hasina government is monitoring the activities of opposition leaders, they said. The role of the ISI to undermine the Hasina government which has cracked down against radicals is nothing new, but now, what started as a student protest against quotas in jobs has been transformed into a political movement through infiltration of cadres of opposition parties into the protesting groups, people tracking the developments said.

DHAKA: Soldiers were patrolling Bangladeshi cities on Saturday to quell growing civil unrest sparked by student demonstrations, with riot police firing on protesters who defied a government curfew. This week's violence has killed at least 123 people so far, according to a count of victims reported by police and hospitals, and poses a monumental challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's autocratic government after 15 years in office. A government curfew went into effect at midnight and the premier's office asked the military to deploy troops after police again failed to subdue widespread mayhem.

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protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country born out of a war between India and Pakistan in 1971 in which nearly 3 million people were killed. Its founding father and first prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was assassinated in 1975 in a military coup which brought in a long period of military rule. Though democracy was restored slowly by 1990, the country of nearly 170 million people has been rocked by sporadic periods of sectarian or political violence in recent years.

Indian students back home on Friday from Bangladesh, where violence has erupted between protesters and security forces. At least 20 people have been killed in the clashes this week — most of them in the capital Dhaka — with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to scatter protesters who also torched vehicles and establishments. The protesters oppose a system of quotas for government jobs. Some mobile internet services were cut off on Thursday and telecom links remained widely disrupted on Friday.

CBI Friday arrested a first-year MBBS student of Ranchi's Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for allegedly being part of a 'solver module' working with an engineer who had stolen the NEET-UG question papers, officials said. Surabhi Kumari was taken into custody after two days of detailed questioning by the CBI, the officials said. It is alleged that Kumari was the fifth member of the 'solver module' which was present in Hazaribagh in the morning of May 5, the NEET-UG examination day, to solve the paper stolen by Pankaj Kumar, they said. Pankaj Kumar alias Aditya, a 2017-batch civil engineer from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), who allegedly stole the NEET-UG paper from the NTA trunk in Hazaribagh.

Bombay High Court on Friday quashed the Maharashtra government's notification that exempted private schools within a one-kilometre radius of government or aided schools from Right to Education (RTE) Act quota admissions. A division bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar said the notification dated February 9 was «ultra vires» to Article 21 of the Constitution of India and provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, also known as the RTE. «The notification is held to be null and void,» the court said. The court, in its judgment, said the mandate of the law casts a duty not only on the government but also on private unaided schools to provide education to children in the age group of six to 14 years from the disadvantaged section of society.