Rajasthan's Mahesh Kumar tops NEET-UG, MP's Utkarsh Awadhiya bags second rank
New Delhi (PTI): Rajasthan's Mahesh Kumar has topped the medical entrance exam NEET-UG, while Madhya Pradhesh's Utkarsh Awadhiya has bagged the second rank, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Saturday.
More than 12.36 lakh candidates out of 22.09 lakh test takers qualified the exam. The number is down from last year's 13.15 lakh qualifying candidates. However, the number of test takers was also higher last year at over 23.33 lakh.
Maharashtra's Krishang Joshi and Delhi's Mrinal Kishore Jha bagged the third and fourth ranks, respectively.
Among females, Delhi's Avika Aggarwal emerged topper, bagging the fifth rank nationally.
The maximum qualifying candidates are from Uttar Pradesh (over 1.70 lakh), followed by Maharashtra (over 1.25 lakh) and Rajasthan (over 1.19 lakh).
The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) is the largest entrance exam in the country in terms of the number of candidates appearing for the test.
The NTA conducts the NEET every year for admission into medical colleges. A total of 1,08,000 seats are available for the MBSS course -- approximately 56,000 in government hospitals, and about 52,000 in private colleges.
Admissions to undergraduate courses in dentistry, Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha also utilise NEET results for admission.
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Bomb threat emails sent to courts in Karnataka, premises evacuated
Mysuru/Dharwad (PTI): Panic gripped parts of Karnataka on Tuesday after the Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court and several district courts across the state received bomb threat emails, prompting authorities to evacuate the premises as a precautionary measure, police said.
Following the threats, judicial officers, lawyers, litigants and court staff were evacuated from the court complexes, and court proceedings were temporarily suspended.
Apart from the Dharwad Bench of the High Court, district courts in Mysuru, Gadag and Bagalkote also received similar threat emails, police said.
Bomb disposal and dog squads were rushed to the premises, and thorough searches were conducted, a senior police officer said.
"No suspicious objects were found at any of the locations," police said, adding that FIRs have been registered by the respective district police stations. An investigation has been launched to trace the source of the emails, and a further probe is underway.
Earlier, the passport office in Bengaluru’s Koramangala also received a similar bomb threat email. Following the alert, police and bomb disposal squads carried out security checks at the premises.
As a precaution, security checks were also conducted at the Passport Seva Kendra on Lalbagh Road, a senior police officer said. No suspicious objects were found, and the threat was later confirmed to be a hoax.
Based on a complaint lodged by a passport official, a case has been registered at the Koramangala police station, and efforts are underway to trace the source of the email threat, police added.
