Kolkata, June 12 (IANS) Union Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan said on Friday that the full might and weight of the law will fall on any person trying in any manner to distort, disrupt or tamper with the integrity or smooth conduct of the National eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2026 re-examination. He met the National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General Abhishek Singh during the day and reviewed the preparedness for the NEET re-examination.The Cabinet Secretary emphasis…
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Bhubaneswar, June 12 (IANS) The Government of Odisha on Thursday issued an urgent order providing free bus travel to all students appearing in the NEET (UG) Re-exam 2026. The exam, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), will be held on June 21, 2026, across 134 centres in Odisha, with 56,983 candidates expected to attend. According to the order issued by the state Commerce & Transport Department, students can avail free bus services by showing their valid admit card.The move, approv…
Dehradun, June 10 (IANS) The Uttarakhand government on Wednesday announced free travel in state Transport Corporation buses for permanent residents of the state set to appear in the NEET (UG)-2026 re-examination on June 21. The decision comes days after a similar promise made by Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.The BJP government in Uttarakhand, led by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, said that the candidates appearing for the exam can avail the facility by showing their admit card and may tr…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday visited the National Testing Agency (NRA) headquarters to review preparations for the NEET-UG 2026 retest on June 21 and reiterated the commitment to conduct an error-free exam and declare results on time. “I would like to request the students and their parents. As we said earlier, we assure you that this time NEET will be conducted without any errors. Once again, I would like to assure you that this time the resul…
Patna, June 9 (IANS) The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police on Tuesday issued an advisory ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, urging candidates and the public to stay alert against rumours, misinformation and cyber fraud.The EOU, which serves as the state-level nodal agency for preventing malpractice and irregularities in competitive examinations, stated that it is committed to ensuring the fair and transparent conduct of examinations.The advisory comes in view of the NEET-UG 202…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Manisha Waghmare, an accused in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).The order was passed by the Rouse Avenue Court after hearing arguments from both sides.During the hearing, Waghmare’s counsel argued that she is a certified education counsellor and receives regular income through counselling services. The defence contended that the CBI’s allegation regarding …
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday released the city intimation slips for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) re-examination, allowing lakhs of students to check the details ahead of re-examinations, slated in a fortnight on June 21. The students can check their allotted examination city by logging into the official website and can also download the document from the NEET portal, after following the due process of logging in and entering their c…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Reiterating its commitment to conduct a fair, secure and credible exam, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday advised all National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2026 re-examination aspirants to ignore rumours about an alleged “leak” ahead of the June 21 test. The Agency said the integrity of the examination process is fully intact, and every safeguard is in place to ensure a fair and secure examination for all candidates.The NTA, in a mess…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) The Union Education Ministry on Friday dismissed allegations of data breach in Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) results, deprecating attempts to undermine public trust in the examination conducted by IIT Roorkee for more than 1.79 lakh students. In a message on social media platform X, the Ministry said, “There have been several misleading and factually incorrect reports regarding data breach and privacy violations with respect to students who took JEE (Advanced) ex…
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to direct the National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination in a computer-based test (CBT) mode, observing that such a direction could not be granted at this stage when authorities were already engaged in conducting the fresh examination scheduled for June 21. A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Aravind Kumar expressed disinclination to entertain the plea seeking an immediate shift from the existing pen-a…