PRAYAGRAJ: Kaushambi Police have invoked Gangsters Act against Rajiv Nayan Mishra alias Rahul Kumar Mishra, mastermind of paper leaks in various competitive exams in Uttar Pradesh, and 22 of his accomplices.Mishra, a resident of Amaura village, had been operating an inter-state racket that leaked question papers of several competitive exams, Kaushambi superintendent of police (SP)…
NEW DELHI: CBI reached members of NEET-UG question paper leak gang by the providential recovery by Bihar Police of a partly burnt leaked question paper, which was a printout of a mobile phone photo of the question paper taken five hours before the examination on May 5 at Oasis School in Hazaribag.Explaining the modus operandi…
Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected pleas for a retest for admissions to 1.08 lakh MBBS seats in govt and private medical colleges in the absence of evidence to establish that the exam paper leak in Hazaribag vitiated the results or breached the examination’s sanctity and integrity, a verdict that lifted the haze of uncertainty that…
NEW DELHI: Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi on Tuesday visited Mumbai to review the overall state of guided-missile frigate INS Brahmaputra, which suffered extensive damage after tipping over at the naval dockyard, as well as the measures required to get the warship upright and sea-worthy again.While efforts are being made to find the junior…
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday called the seventh budget 2024-25 a “disappointing budget” and said that they have provided special allocation to Bihar and Andhra Pradesh just to appease their allies JDU and TDP so that they can save the government. After finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget at the Parliament, the Congress…
NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday hailed Supreme Court‘s judgement on NEET-UG and said that the apex court has upheld government‘s stand that there has not been any large scale breach.Following the judgement, Pradhan said, “The truth has prevailed. We welcome the decision of the Supreme Court. We have been saying this…
NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out between the security forces and terrorists near Triukha Top in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Kupwara on Tuesday.“Security forces have established contact with terrorists near Trimukha Top, Lolab, Kupwara. Operation in progress,” wrote Kashmir Zone Police in a post on X.The operation is underway.Earlier the day, a soldier was killed as…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud pulled up senior advocate Mathews Nedumpara after a heated exchange during a hearing on NEET-UG on Tuesday and ordered security personnel to remove him from the courtroom.According to a video shared by Bar and Bench, the Chief Justice stepped in after Nedumpara, representing one of the petitioners,…
NEW DELHI: The third day of the Budget session is set for a massive showdown as the opposition INDIA bloc MPs have decided to protest in Parliament in the backdrop of the Union Budget, which they have called “discriminatory”.Union Budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharam for the seventh consecutive time on Tuesday drew opposition’s…
NEW DELHI: When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget in February 2024, many were expecting it to be full of freebies with an eye on the 2024 general election. There were expectations that the government may announce tax cuts for the middle class and extra incentives for farmers and rural areas. But the…
