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The central government has scrapped the "no-detention policy" in schools. In this regard, the Ministry of Education has issued an official Gazette notification.

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a copy of the report of Bihar Police and its Economic Offences Unit (EOU) in relation to the NEET-UG question paper leak case.

Four students of the Patna AIIMS were detained by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday, a day after they were called for questioning in the NEET paper leak case.

The Centre, in a preliminary affidavit filed before the Supreme Court on Friday opposed the batch of pleas seeking cancellation of the NEET-UG examination, for admission in undergraduate medical programmes, saying it would affect "lakhs of honest candidates" who appeared in it on May 5. 

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) clarified on Wednesday that it has not given Byju’s a clean chit over financial fraud as the investigation into the matter is still going on.

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2024 paper leak fiasco saw a fresh twist on Thursday with the accused persons confessing before the police that question papers were arranged for certain candidates a day before the exam for which the aspirants shelled out close to Rs 30-32 lakh.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice on a plea seeking directions to the National Board of Examinations (NBE) to release the question paper and answer key of the NEET (PG) examination.

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the proceedings pending before various High Courts of the country pertaining to the alleged NEET (UG) paper leak.

The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police will question nine candidates in connection with the NEET question paper leak case in the presence of their parents in Patna on Tuesday.

The plea seeks directions for the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the “malpractices and fraud involved” in the NEET examination held on May 5 and a stay on counselling till the investigations on the paper leak are completed.

Private coaching institutes like Physics Wallah (PW) and Allen Career Institute on Sunday expressed deep concerns over the alleged irregularities in the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), urging the National Testing Agency (NTA) to clear the air around the controversy. 

In her complaint to the police, the victim alleged that one of the four accused called her fraudulently to his flat where he, along with his three friends, gang-raped her.

The collaboration between ASU and OpenAI brings the advanced capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise into higher education, setting a new precedent for how universities enhance learning, creativity and student outcomes.

Another student in Rajasthan's Kota committed suicide, taking the total number of students who have ended their lives this year to 26. Mohammad Tanveer, the 20-year-old student ended his life by hanging himself in his room on Wednesday night.

Ten students of IIT-Mandi in Himachal Pradesh have been suspended from academics and hostel till December for ragging freshers, the institute said on Wednesday.

Kolkata’s iconic Jadavpur University is once again in the midst of a controversy with the dean of students Dr Subinoy Chakraborty suddenly tendering his resignation on Sunday morning.

The Congress-ruled Karnataka government on Monday declared that it would scrap the National Education Policy (NEP) of the previous BJP government from the next academic year.

The authorities in Kota have directed the educational institutes not to conduct tests on Sunday. Though the directive was already issued earlier, it has been decided to implement it strictly after Rajasthan's education hub witnessed 20 suicides in the last eight months.

It also noted that the incidents of bullying and harassment, transmission of explicit images, photographing, recording or uploading inappropriate contents are also likely negatives that are detrimental to the social fabric as well as future of a child.

Police have reportedly found a suicide letter from her room in which she wrote that no one was responsible for her suicide. She wrote that she was taking the extreme step due to mental stress.

Rajasthan's Kota, once called the coaching city for producing engineers and doctors in India, is now turning into a "suicide factory" after back-to-back cases of aspirants killing themselves on being unable to handle the pressure are being reported.

The ones in West Bengal are: Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine, Kolkata; and Institute of Alternative Medicine and Research, Diamond Harbour Road, Builtech inn, Thakurpurkur.

Over 600 engineering and technical institutions across the country will soon start offering "world-class" courses on semiconductor technology, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman T.G. Sitharam has said.

It needs to be mentioned here that around 15 cases have been reported in Kota in which students have either committed suicide or have tried to commit suicide in last six months.

Speaking on the signing of the MoU, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said: "The MoU for establishment of IIT Delhi campus in Abu Dhabi in the presence of PM Modi unfolds a new chapter in internationalisation of India's education."