Education
The Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) has unveiled its much-anticipated “Exam Manifesto,” outlining a comprehensive roadmap to reform India’s examination and recruitment systems. The manifesto was released by party founder Abhijeet Dipke during a public gathering in Pune, where he emphasized the need for transparency, accountability, and fairness in the conduct of examinations.
In an unprecedented escalation of academic security measures, the Central Government is planning to deploy the Indian Air Force (IAF) to transport confidential question papers for the upcoming NEET-UG 2026 re-examination scheduled on June 21. The high-stakes logistics strategy was hammered out during an emergency joint meeting chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. Moving completely away from traditional state courier and Department of Posts networks, the multi-agency overhaul aims to eliminate all structural vulnerabilities following the cancellation of the original May 3 national medical entrance exam, which was compromised by a widespread pre-exam leak scandal. The PMO is directly auditing the deployment of military aircraft, which officials state is also designed to bypass unpredictable pre-monsoon weather bottlenecks across remote sectors. Meanwhile, opposition benches have sharply criticized the decision, questioning if calling in the military exposes a foundational collapse of trust in the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) independent institutional machinery.
In the most damaging personal blow yet to the leadership of India’s collapsed edtech empire, a Singapore court on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, sentenced Byju Raveendran to six months in prison for contempt of court. The severe punitive order follows a high-stakes asset-tracing lawsuit filed by a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), with the judiciary ruling that Raveendran systematically defied multiple explicit mandates dating back to April 2024 to disclose his global holdings. In addition to the jail sentence, the founder has been ordered to immediately surrender to Singapore law enforcement, shell out S$90,000 (~$70,500) in legal costs, and hand over hidden ownership files for Beeaar Investco Pte—an offshore vehicle used to shield remaining company equities. While Raveendran immediately took to social media to downplay the committal order as a mere “procedural disclosure dispute” rather than a finding of corporate fraud, the ruling seals a staggering fall from grace for an entrepreneur whose startup commanded a breathtaking $22 billion peak valuation just four years ago.
The director of the Indian Institute of Management Raipur, Ram Kumar Kakani resigned in July 2025 which is raising questions about the autonomy of the institute.
While the United States is about to accept approximately six lakh (600,000) Chinese students for postgraduate studies, it still signifies the two nations’ educational friendship and global diplomacy.
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has urged the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and the Union government to retain the Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed) programme, warning against replacing it with the new Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce open-book assessments (OBAs) for Class 9 students starting in the 2026-27 academic session. The board’s Governing Body approved this decision in June after a pilot study examined the feasibility and acceptance of this format in schools.
The new Class 8 NCERT Social Science textbook looks quite different this year — and not just in layout. Entire sections on Tipu Sultan, Haidar Ali, and the Anglo-Mysore Wars of the 1700s have been removed.
It’s been five years since the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was launched, promising to reshape the way India learns and teaches. As the country marks this milestone, students, teachers, and parents are reflecting on what has changed—and what still needs to.
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