www.INDIANeXPReSS.Com The Boy Who Could Be King jaiPUr, may 31, 2026 At 15, cricketer Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s game has a fearful symmetry that has cricket’s greats applauding the ‘new six machine’ LATe CITY 16+4 PAGeS ₹6.00 booKs Ruskin Bond on turning 92, his new book and why he can’t stop writing D A I L Y f R o m : A h m e D A B A D , Happening today (retd) will take charge as the country’s next CDS after General Anil Chauhan superannuated. Gen Chauhan took charge as the CDS in September 2022. »continueD on paGe 2 L u C k N o w , m u m B A I , N A G P u R , Accused worked under ‘CONOPS’ (confidential operations) protocol, premises were self-contained with strict rules; at least one arrested had also worked on the 2025 NEET Another NTA exam mess: Tech glitches disrupt CUET, retest for over 3,700 ritika chopra sophiya Mathew Track These and more on www.indianexpress.com The Delhi Police said SaturdayithaduncoveredaPakistan iSi-underworld terror module and arrested eight persons, including a Nepali national, who wereallegedlyplanningattacks on vital installations, security establishments and police personnelinDelhi,Mumbai,Chandigarh and cities of Punjab. Police officers said the arrests of the eight, some linked tofugitiveunderworldgangster Dawoodibrahim,weremadein acoordinatedmulti-stateoperation, uncovering a conspiracy allegedly orchestrated by k o L k A T A , Sealed room, leadership vacuum: How NEET 2026 breached safeguards put after 2024 leak lLt Gen N S Raja Subramani pragynesh j A I P u R , P A T N A , P u N e , v A D o D A R A Gaps in nta LeaDersHip anD supervision at criticaL points in testinG process defending champions RCB in the IPL final. The Titans entered the final after defeating Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in the Qualifier 2. New Delhi May 30 D e L h I , pete HeGsetH in sinGapore lGujarat titans will face inmulti-state op,policesay pak-backed terrorgroup busted,8held C h A N D I G A R h , New Delhi, Mumbai, May 30 DeePiNSiDetheNationalTestingAgency’spaper-settingoperation is a highly secured premises in New Delhi that was not supposedtobebreached.it’seffectivelysealedofffromtheoutside: no phones, no laptops, no devices,nointernet,air-gapped computers, logs tracking every document, mandatory shred- dingofallnotes.itwasdesigned, after the NeeT leak of 2024, to be the last word in securing the medical entrance test. The people at the centre of the NeeT-UG 2026 leak investigation were trusted insiders embedded in the most protected phase of the examination process. And at least one of those arrested had worked on last year’s NeeT paper, too. That the leak happened de- spite this has rattled the Government. The CBi has arrested 13 people so far, including paper translators, subject experts and intermediariesaccusedofcirculating sections of the question paper before the May 3 exam, taken by over 20 lakh students. interviewswithoveradozenofficials,NTAinsidersandexperts associatedwithNeeT-UG2024, »continueD on paGe 2 New Delhi, May 30 A TeChNiCAl glitch hit the Saturday morning shift of the CUeT-UG 2026, the nationallevel examination for admission to undergraduate programmes in participating universities, leading to confusionandpanicamongcandidates at the affected centres. The National Testing Agencylaterannouncedaonetimere-testfor3,765candidates who had completed their biometric registration but had left theexaminationcentresbefore the test could resume. The NTA said about 95 per cent of candidates were able to complete the examination oncetheissuewasresolvedand the test resumed. it said the Tata Consultancy Services »continueD on paGe 2 Comeback ends in heartbreak, Vinesh steels resolve: ‘Olympics my target’ nihal Koshie New Delhi, May 30 Vinesh Phogat was knocked out of the asian Games selection trials in new delhi, saturday. GAjeNDRA YADAv “The SySTeM is against me today, it will be against me tomorrow, but if i continue to believe in myself, i can overcome the system. The los Angeles Olympics (2028) remains my A Trusted Institute For Comprehensive, In-depth, Analytical & Result-oriented Preparation target.” This was wrestler Vinesh Phogat, moments after she was knocked out of the Asian Games trials in New Delhi, on Saturday,havingfoughtagainst the odds to be allowed to participate in the first place. She lost 4-6 in the semifi- nalstoup-and-comingwrestler Meenakshi Goyat, an Asian Championship silver medalist. But Vinesh, the mother of a 10-month-oldson,saidshewas not as heartbroken as she was at the Paris Olympics after failing to make the weight cut by »continueD on paGe 2 U.s. defense secretary Pete hegseth at shangri-La dialogue in singapore, saturday. 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