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While there was no «leak» per se of the online exam, there were inputs received by the health ministry and the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) -that conducts NEET-PG — that indicated a high possibility of the exam getting compromised, ET has reliably learnt. «There was no actual leak but credible complaints and inputs were there of possible impersonation attempts at some centres. There were also intelligence inputs on the same. That is why it was decided to postpone the exam,» a senior official confirmed to ET.

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National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to conduct a retest for over 1000 candidates of CUET UG on July 19. The NTA had on July 7 released the provisional answer key of Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 and announced that it will conduct a retest for CUET UG candidates between July 15 and 19 if any grievance raised by students about the conduct of the exam is found to be correct. While the agency notified the retest schedule on Sunday, it remained silent on the declaration of the result which has already been delayed by over two weeks with the final answer key not yet notified. The delay in CUET-UG results comes amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including NEET and NET.

Fazilka district administration in Punjab has launched a 'bag-free day' initiative in government primary schools to foster creativity and provide stress-free learning experience for students, officials said on Sunday. Under this initiative, students need not bring school bags on the last Saturday of every month, they said. Fazilka District Education Officer Shiv Pal said there will be no regular classes on 'bag-free' days and co-curricular activities such as rafting, storytelling, class discussions and yoga, will be conducted instead of traditional classes, the officials said. The initiative is aimed at providing a stress-free learning experience, enhance creativity and skills and for holistic development of children, they added.

Chief Justice of India Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud on Saturday said law students should be well-versed with regional languages and laws so that people's access to the legal system can be improved. Addressing the third convocation of Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow, Justice DY Chandrachud underscored the importance of imparting legal education in «easy language», asserting that it is currently a shortcoming in the legal profession. Citing an analysis done by the research department of the Supreme Court on 81 universities and colleges, the CJI said, «It was found that common people experience hurdles in understanding their rights and schemes meant for them as they do not know English.» «This means that in law universities, legal education is imparted English, and many times, students at legal aid centres are not able explain legal procedures to the common people in regional languages,» he said.

Circle has awarded $5,000 scholarships to 10 graduating Northern California high school seniors interested in learning about cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Release Date 'Elite,' a Spanish series on Netflix, is set to release its eighth and final season on July 26. The show, which started in 2018, follows three working-class students attending an elite high school on scholarships and their interactions with their wealthy classmates.

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12 problem statements on Geo-Spatial Applications from centres NRSC, PRL, NESAC, SPL, and SAC.As per ISRO, Teams of 3-4 Indian students from undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD programs are invited to participate for the Hackathon which involves a rigorous two- level screening process.The Indian space agency said in a statement said, “Initially, 100 teams will be shortlisted based on their ideation and relevance to the problem statements. From these, an expert committee will select 30 teams for the grand finale."The grand finale, a 30- hour marathon event, will be held at the NRSC Outreach Facility in Jeedimetla, Hyderabad, starting at 10:00 hrs IST on August 13, 2024.The hackathon event is managed through a dedicated web portal.

IIM Shillong and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand with an aim to foster collaboration between the two institutions, enhancing academic and cultural exchanges through mutual support, specifically focusing on teaching and research endeavour. The signing ceremony was attended by Prof. D.P. Goyal, Director of IIM Shillong, and Prof. Nitin K. Tripathi, Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs at AIT. Other dignitaries from IIM Shillong included Prof. Naliniprabha Tripathy, Dean of External Relations, and Dr. Teidorlang Lyngdoh, Chair of External Relations. AIT was represented by Dr. Roger Levermore, Vice President for Development and Dean of the School of Management (SOM); Dr. Sumana Shrestha, Director of International Affairs at the Office of International and Public Affairs (OIPA); Sanjeet Amatya, Director of Public Affairs at OIPA; and Zia Islam, Executive Assistant to the Dean and Coordinator at the Dean’s Office, SOM.

India-Russia annual summit in Moscow on Tuesday between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladmir Putin will be on devising mechanisms for the easy and quick transfer of money between the two countries. This has gained significance in the backdrop of the ban on the use of SWIFT by Russia and the unprecedented surge in bilateral trade since the Ukraine war. The two leaders are also expected to initiate a process to allow the use of national currencies by tourists and students, ET has learnt. This will include the use of RuPay cards in Russia and MiR cards in India, according to persons familiar with the matter. While 60% of India-Russia trade is currently in national currencies, the need for real-time and faster payment in the absence of SWIFT has been felt. It is in this context that Modi and Putin are expected to focus on creating a special mechanism, said the people cited above.

Messi and Lamine Yamal both have very important national duties within the next few days, as the finals of Euro Cup 2024 and Copa America 2024 are both happening on Sunday, and their national teams, Argentina and Spain, are both participating in these finals. Both teams will be looking up to both the sensational players as they will be pivotal with their goal-scoring abilities during crucial moments of the high-intensity games.

On 8 July, a Supreme Court bench will hear around 24 petitions challenging alleged irregularities in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG), an exam crucial for admission into undergraduate medical programmes. The verdict could affect approximately 2.4 million students. Mint takes detailed look at the situation: The NEET-UG, assessing students on physics, biology, and chemistry, was held on 5 May across 4,750 centres in 571 Indian cities and 14 international locations.

Tripura State AIDS Control Society (TSACS). «We have so far registered 828 students who are HIV positive. Out of them, 572 students are still alive and we have lost 47 people due to the dreaded infection. Many of the students have migrated out of Tripura for higher studies in coveted institutions across the country,» a senior official of the TSACS said. Tripura AIDS Control Society has identified students from as many as 220 schools and 24 colleges and universities who take injectable drugs. Not only this, the recent data shows that almost every day, five to seven new cases of HIV are being detected, a senior official of TSACS has said.

Tripura is confronting a devastating HIV outbreak among its student population, driven largely by injectable drug use. According to officials from the Tripura State AIDS Control Society (TSACS), 828 students have tested positive for HIV, and 47 have tragically lost their lives due to the epidemic. Extent of the HIV Outbreak The crisis has spread across 220 schools and 24 colleges and universities in Tripura, where injectable drug abuse among students has facilitated the rapid transmission of HIV. TSACS officials have reported detecting five to seven new cases daily, underscoring the urgency of addressing the situation comprehensively.

H-1B visa system haul to the end of the year. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is gearing up to release several significant regulations, with the most anticipated being the modernization of the H-1B program. Earlier this year, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) shifted the H-1B cap lottery to selection by beneficiary rather than registration, alongside measures to prevent fraud. The next phase, slated for December 2024, will enhance cap-gap protections for F-1 students, revise the H-1B specialty occupation definition, expand the Fraud Detection and National Security site visit program, and ensure USCIS adjudicators defer to prior decisions.

NEET-UG 2024 had been compromised. The top court directed the National Testing Agency (NTA), that conducts the exam, and the Union government to submit comprehensive affidavits, and requested a status update from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by July 10 regarding the NEET UG examination.In an affidavit submitted on July 10, the Union government said that the Ministry of Education had requested IIT Madras to conduct comprehensive data analytics of the results of NEET-UG 2024 candidates, in compliance with the Supreme Court's directives.

Delhi University (DU) is likely to be postponed to August 16, due to a delay in the release of the Central University Entrance Test (CUET-UG) results, Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh announced on Saturday. Initially scheduled to start on August 1, the delay in the publication of results has disrupted the academic calendar. Vice Chancellor Singh said classes for other semesters will begin as per scheduled on August 1.

₹200 a pop (well, it was the 1990s, things were a lot cheaper then.) Very soon, students started walking out one by one simply because they had only prepared for the questions that had been leaked and no more. On top of that it was a difficult paper—not of a kind where one could just vomit what one had mugged up, which is how most school and college exams were back then. After the exam was over, the explanation offered was that the administrators had come to know that the paper had been leaked and so had changed it to the backup question paper, which apparently had also been prepared and printed.

governance and bring about a paradigm shift in citizen-centric delivery of services. Imagine a student applying for college admissions. Instead of separately applying for numerous universities and colleges with the need for filling multiple applications with repetitive data each time, an AI-driven system would proactively collate the basic demographic information about the student and suggest the probable list of colleges based on his/her score in the qualifying examination.

New York on Wednesday launched a dedicated platform for Indian students to find internship opportunities at companies in the United States. The consulate on a social media platform X said, «As part of the initiative to support Indian students in its jurisdiction, India in New York has developed a platform for Indian Students to find internship opportunities at companies in the USA.» «Several Indian and American companies and organizations have agreed to consider deserving Indian students for internship opportunities,» it added.