MP CM Yadav congratulates MP resident Majid Hussain for securing 3rd rank in JEE-Advanced exam
Bhopal (PTI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav congratulated Majid Hussain, a resident of the state's Burhanpur district, for securing All India Rank 3 in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Advanced 2025 examination.
Yadav took to social media platform X to hail Hussain's success and lauded him for bringing laurels to the state.
"Our youth from small districts of Madhya Pradesh are waving the flag of their talent. It is a matter of joy and pride," he said in a post.
According to officials at IIT Kanpur, which was the conducting institute this time for JEE-Advanced, a total of 1,80,422 candidates appeared in both papers 1 and 2 of the exam held on May 18.
"In the exam, 54,378 candidates have qualified, out of which 9,404 are females," an official said.
Delhi zone’s Rajit Gupta, a resident of Kota in Rajasthan, bagged the top rank by scoring 332 out of 360 marks.
JEE-Main, which is the admission test for engineering colleges across the country, is the qualifying exam for JEE-Advanced.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
