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Haryana board exams have been rocked by fraud as 34 were caught cheating, forcing authorities to ramp up security and crack down on impersonators

Aadhaar-based fingerprint authentication, facial recognition, and QR codes on admit cards are some of the measures the UPSC has proposed to overhaul the exam process

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to declare by 12 noon of July 20 the centre and city-wise results of NEET-UG 2024 while masking the identities of aspirants. As it strove to address the allegations of malpractices in the conduct of the examination, a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said any order for conducting it afresh has to be on concrete conclusion that the sanctity of the entire process was affected. The top court will resume hearing the arguments on July 22 on a batch of pleas seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the allegations of large-scale malpractices in the prestigious test held on May 5. During the day-long hearing, the bench asked the counsel for the aspirants to establish their claim about extensive irregularities in holding the examination, including leak of question paper, warranting cancellation and a re-test. The court said it prima facie appeared that the question paper leak was ...

Besides GIP, Noida, the agency has also attached properties belonging to International Amusement Limited in Haryana's Rohini and Rajasthan's Jaipur

A bill which seeks to deal sternly with malpractices and irregularities in competitive examinations, with provisions for a maximum jail term of 10 years and a fine up to Rs 1 crore was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill, 2024 was introduced by Union minister Jitendra Singh. Students will not be a target of the proposed law. It will act against organised gangs, mafia elements and those indulging in malpractices and will not even spare government officials found in collusion with them. The move comes against the backdrop of cancellation of a series of competitive tests such as the teacher recruitment exam in Rajasthan, Common Eligibility Test (CET) for Group-D posts in Haryana, recruitment exam for junior clerks in Gujarat and constable recruitment examination in Bihar following question paper leaks. The bill also proposes a high-level national technical committee on public examinations that will make recommendations to ma

Dayanand Singh, who is representing Dhoni in the court, said that not honouring the contract by Aarka Sports caused losses of more than Rs 15 crore to Dhoni and his associates

A special CBI court here has denied bail to Pune-based builder Avinash Bhosale in connection with a case pertaining to the Yes Bank-DHFL scam, saying the nation is the victim of cheating and criminal conspiracy. The court said that prima facie Bhosale's involvement in this serious economic offence is deep-rooted. While Special Judge M G Deshpande denied bail to Bhosale on June 23, the detailed order was available on Tuesday. The court said that Yes Bank's money, which is basically public money and the wealth of the nation, was usurped. The bank was cheated by wisely hatching criminal conspiracy by accused persons. Money of Yes Bank is the wealth of the Nation. Nation is victim of this offence of cheating and criminal conspiracy, the court said, declining to give relief to Bhosale. The special judge said that the way the fraud was committed, granting bail to the applicant (Bhosale) is not safe and there is every possibility of spoiling the case by tampering with the evidence and ..

With arrest of six persons, the Police has busted a gang of online cheats who had duped over 1,900 people on pretext of loans through app 'Cash Advance', a senior official said on Monday

The accused is suspected of charging Rs 20 to Rs 30 lakh from each candidate for the AEE and DAO exam that was held on January 22 and February 26, respectively

The Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission has issued show-cause notices to 115 candidates who got leaked question papers of graduate-level examinations held by it from a cheating mafia. The action is based on a recommendation of the Special Task Force investigating the graduate-level recruitment examination paper leak case. The process to debar them from appearing in future examinations will follow this, the UKSSSC said in a communique. The commission conducted the graduate-level examinations on December 4-5 in 2021. Irregularities had surfaced in several recruitment examinations held by the UKSSSC after which Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami asked the STF to probe them in detail and take the cheating mafia to book. More than 60 people have been put behind bars in connection with various paper leak cases in the state. Due to a series of paper leak scams unearthed one after another in Uttarakhand, a severe anti-copying law was introduced in the state which makes

Taking a strong stand against the alleged recruitment scams and paper leak cases, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said that those who will cheat in examinations will be given life imprisonment

Uttar Pradesh's Board of Secondary Education has issued a list of guidelines, which include barring invigilators from using mobiles, calculators or any other e-devices, to ensure there is no cheating in the state board exams next month. Fifty per cent of the invigilators at the examination centres will be external and a teacher of the subject for which an exam is being held will not be put on duty, according to the statement by the Uttar Pradesh government issued on Saturday. These follow directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for a copying-free board exam. . The guidelines also state that no girl examinee will be frisked by a male invigilator. Besides, women invigilators will be deployed at centres where girls are sitting for exams. No teacher shall be appointed at a particular examination centre on his/her request for vested interest, the statement said. According to secretary of the Board of Secondary Education Divyakant Shukla, each examination hall will have two ...

The accused, identified as Nagendra Kumar (39), had also resigned from the bank after committing the crime in August 2020, and he was evading arrest

"She was asked about her relationship with Chandrashekar, and about the gifts and money she received from the conman. Irani and Fernandez both were confronted together," a source in the EOW said.

The Delhi High Court has clarified that there is no stay of investigation in an alleged cheating case against SpiceJet promoter Ajay Singh concerning the transfer of shares of the airline to certain individuals. The clarification came on an order passed by Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta on Singh's anticipatory bail application in the matter. The court, which had earlier granted interim protection from arrest to the businessman stated in its order dated September 8, As prayed by learned Additional Standing Counsel for the State, it is clarified that there is no stay of investigation. The court listed the matter for further hearing on November 29 and said the interim order shall continue to remain in operation in the meantime. List on November 29, 2022. Interim orders to continue, it said. In the present case, which pertains to two similar FIRs, a Delhi businessman and his family members have alleged that there was a share-purchase agreement between him and the accused and they paid

Rajasthan records highest number of cases, followed by Telangana

The district court has granted bail to two of Tyagi's aides who were accused of harbouring him during the period he went absconding from Noida, a lawyer said.

The London-based auditor admitted to the charges and agreed to pay what the SEC said is its largest fine against an auditor

A Mumbai-based businessman has lodged a cheating case against Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra and some other persons for allegedly duping him of Rs 1.51 crore

All efforts are made to prevent the adoption of unfair means through monitoring by appointing external observers and flying squads, and use of CCTV, said Antriksh Johri, Director (IT), CBSE.