The Editorial Page: In a shifting world order, five principles should guide India’s diplomacy 10 WEdNESdAy, MAy 13, 2026 JournalisM of Courage JAIPur, lATe CITy, 20 PAgeS ₹6.00 l www.indianexpress.com dA I ly f r o M : A h M e dA B A d , C h A N d I gA r h , d e l h I , J A I P u r , ko l k ATA , l u C k N o w , M u M B A I , N Ag P u r , PAT N A , P u N e , VA d o dA r A PosTal regn. no. JaiPur ciTy/001/2024-26 exam CaNCelled BeCaUse PrOCess was fOUNd TO have BeeN vITIaTed: NTa ChIef NeeT-ug scrapped over leak, govt orders retest, cBi probe Over 22 lakh affected; NTA says new exam date soon; one held in Nashik afterlastleak, ex-IsrOchief panelhadcalled forreforms;all gatherdust abhinaya harigovind & mahender singh manral While this is the first time thattheNationaleligibilitycum entrance test-Undergraduate (Neet-UG), for admission to undergraduate medical education, is being cancelled over an alleged paper leak, there have beenclaimsofmalpracticesand breaches before. Under fire over an alleged Neet-UG paper leak in 2024, the BJP-led government,whichhad just returned to power then for a third term, had constituted a high-levelcommitteeofexperts ledbyformerisrOChairmanK radhakrishnan to recommend reformsintheexaminationprocess, and improve security protocol. in its October 2024 report submitted to the education Ministry, the committee had presented a detailed set of recommendations. But, nearly As rupee falls to record low of 95.63, CEA flags: Stopping further fall a key imperative abhinaya harigovind & anonna dutt iNamoveaffectingover22lakh candidates, the National testingagency(Nta)tuesdaycancelled the Neet-UG exam for admission to undergraduate medicalcourses,ninedaysafter it was held on May 3, following anallegedpaperleak—thefirst time such a decision has been taken by the agency since the exam was introduced in 2016. the Nta said the exam, which is the largest it conducts in terms of students appearing in a single session, will be held again on dates to be notified separately even as the Centre handed over the paper-leak probe to the CBi. the cancellation triggered protests by student organisations, mainly in Delhi and Kerala, and drew sharp criticism from the Opposition, which accused the Government of crushing the “hard work, sacrifices, and dreams of more than 22 lakh students”. around dOwN almOsT 5% sINCe sTarT Of wesT asIa war New Delhi, May 12 »CONTINUed ON PaGe 2 New Delhi, May 12 accused shubham khairnar being taken into custody by cbi officials in nashik, Tuesday. ANI A ‘whistleblower’, a paid WhatsApp group, ‘guess paper’ that did rounds hamza Khan Jaipur, May 12 inside the UNravelliNG of a suspected leak in the National eligibility-cum-entrance test (Neet-UG), 2026, in rajasthan began with an automated fine print on a Whatsapp message: “forwarded many times.” When investigators following the trail of a “guess paper” stumbled upon this Whatsapp message, they realised that students dejected: ‘Feels like God keeps testinG me’ paGe 4 what they hoped was an isolated leak was much larger in scale. Officials of the rajasthan special Operations Group (sOG), which had been investigating the case before the CBi took charge on tuesday, said that they found a Whatsapp group named ‘Private Mafia’, where the said paper was being circulated and had members whohadpaidvariousamounts, beginning from around rs 5,000, to join the group. however, despite strict “instructions” from the group administrators not to share the paper, it »CONTINUed ON PaGe 2 Happening SIR-deleted can’t avail govt schemes: today Bengal; Bihar to cancel passbooks lThree days afTer taking oath following dramatic efforts to secure a majority, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay’s government is scheduled for a crucial floor test in the state Assembly. Track This and more on www.indianexpress.com Says structural shifts in global economic order not going to reverse Bengal govt starts process of checking ration cards to weed out names ravik Bhattacharya & santosh singh Kolkata, Patna, May 12 saidthattheywillnotbeableto avail government schemes in their states. however,thosewhosecases are under consideration before tribunals in West Bengal will continuetoreceivethesametill their matter is decided, the newly elected government in the state said. the BJP government in West Bengal held its first Cabinet meeting Monday, where it announced that all social schemes of the previous governments in the state would continue, while Central programmes that the trinamool Congress regime had blocked would now be available. holding a press conference afterthemeeting,ChiefMinister suvendu adhikari said: “all social programmes of the government, which may have been started30yearsor10yearsback, willcontinue.however,allsuch schemes will now function through a transparent process. Nodeceasedperson,illegalinfiltrator, or non-indian individual will be allowed to avail benefits meant for citizens of the state.” speaking to The Indian Express in Patna, Bihar CM samrat Choudhary told TheIndian Express: “People whose names E. »CONTINUed ON PaGe 2 cea V anantha nageswaran at a cii event in new delhi. PTI siddharth Upasani New Delhi, May 12 ON the day the the rupee hit an all-time low of 95.75 per dollarbeforeclosingat95.63,Chief economic advisor (Cea) v anantha Nageswaran, while warning that ongoing structural shifts in the global economicorderwerenotgoingtoreverse, said tuesday that stopping the rupee from falling further was one of the “central macroeconomic imperatives” of the current fiscal. speaking at the Confederation of indian industry’s (Cii) »CONTINUed ON PaGe 2 related report, p13 By EP UNNy triGGeriNG fresh apprehension among those deleted from electoral rolls under the specialintensiverevision(sir) exercise, the BJP governments in West Bengal and Bihar have »CONTINUed ON PaGe 2 Won’t be part of biased exercise: Rahul dissents on selection of next CBI chief asad rehman New Delhi, May 12 The Big PicTure the Goa land Grab case paGe 17 sOON after the Prime Minister-ledthree-membercommittee met tuesday to select the nextCBiDirector,leaderofOpposition rahul Gandhi, in a letter to Prime Minister NarendraModi,recordedhisdissent overtheproceedings,sayingthe “leader of Opposition is not a rubber stamp” and he will not loP rahul gandhi participatein“abiasedexercise”. Chief Justice of india surya Kant is the third member of the committee. the committee members metat7,lokKalyanMarginthe evening to decide who should succeed Praveen sood as the CBi Director. sood’s two-year tenure, extended by a year in 2025, is due to end on May 24. releasinghisdissentnoteto the Prime Minister on X, rahul Gandhisaid,“Despiterepeated written requests, i was not »CONTINUed ON PaGe 2 l as he sPeaks abouT The incidenT, he looks aT her graVe, folding his hands in aPology Money in account, sister grave secure, man who carried skeleton remains haunted sujit Bisoyi Dianali (Keonjhar), May 12 Near the doorway of his modest one-room concrete house at Dianali village in Odisha’s Keonjhar district, Jitu Munda sits surrounded by relatives,whohavebeenvisiting himdaily.Jitu,whoisinhis60s, hasgottiredtellingthestory,but every fresh group of visitors wants to know how he carried the skeleton of his sister to a local bank branch — and becameanationalheadline.every time that he does so, Jitu turns to his sister’s grave, located Jitu munda at his sister’s grave in odisha’s dianali village. SuJIT BISoyI barely a few metres away, and folds his hand in apology. Much has changed since april 27 when Jitu walked around 3.5 km barefoot to the Malliposi branch of Odisha Grameen Bank, carrying sister Kalara Munda’s skeleton. he wanted to prove to the bank officials that she was indeed dead, and they should let him withdraw the rs 19,300 in her account. With the incident, from the home district of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, triggering outrage, action followed »CONTINUed ON PaGe 2 Puri: Govt will have to weigh how long oil firms can suffer losses sukalp sharma are adequate stocks of petrol, dieselandcookinggasforregularsupplies,Purisaidtheglobal energy crisis due to the West asia war and the consequent closure of the strait of hormuz is leading to significant financial strain for the OMCs, with combinedlossesofthethreerefiners-cum-fuel retailers projected at rs 1 lakh crore in the april-June quarter at the current price levels. “how long will the oil New Delhi, May 12 the GOverNMeNt will have to “take a view” at some point on how long public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) can continue to suffer losses by selling major fuels below market price, Petroleum Minister hardeep singh Puri said tuesday, but did not comment on whether a fuel price hike is on the cards. 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