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Centre postpones NEET-PG exam amid paper-leak row
Fp Staff •The Centre said the NEET-PG exam was being postponed in the wake of recent incidents of allegations regarding the integrity of certain competitive examinations

Govt sacks exam body chief Subodh Kumar amid paper leak, Opposition allegations
Fp Staff •The National Testing Agency (NTA) is under the scanner for a series of scandals involving alleged paper-leaks and other irregularities

Centre notifies anti-cheating law amid paper-leak row
Fp Staff •The Parliament had passed the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 in February

Integrity? Paper leak? It's 'unavoidable': NTA postpones CSIR-UGC-NET exam now
Fp Staff •The CSIR-UGC-NET is the latest exam to be impacted after allegations of paper leaks and other irregularities affected NEET and UGC-NET exams

Testing Times: What is the NTA at the centre of NEET, NET paper leaks row? What has its past record been?
Fp Explainers •It is now no secret that the NEET-UG and UGC-NET exam papers were leaked. The National Testing, which conducts the exam, has come under the scanner. However, it is not new to controversy

UGC-NET vs NEET-UG: Why two entrance exams are embroiled in controversy
Fp Explainers •Amid row over grace marks and paper leaks of NEET-UG, the education ministry cancelled the UGC-NET examination on Wednesday, a day after over nine lakh students appeared for it. The latter determines the eligibility of candidates for the roles of assistant professors and admissions to PhD programmes in Indian universities. So what went wrong?

CUET-UG 2022: Series of glitches hit debut edition of second largest entrance exam
•The exam has been marred by several glitches causing exam cancellations and leaving the aspirants worried

JEE, NEET row: Odisha govt to provide free transport, accommodation in September for applicants
•Applicants will be lodged in hostels of different ITIs, polytechnic institutes and engineering colleges

Chorus grows for postponing entrance exams due to COVID-19; over 4,000 students observe day-long hunger strike
•The protest came on a day Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the government must listen to the 'mann ki baat' of students and arrive at "an acceptable solution"

National Testing Agency to conduct NEET, JEE Main twice a year; UGC-NET, other competitive exams to be computer-based
Fp Staff •Prakash Javadekar announced on Saturday that competitive exams such as NEET, JEE Main, UGC-NET, CMAT and others will now be computer-based and conducted by the newly founded National Testing Agency



