The Purdue Exponent

Agave plant grows into death bloom after 30 years

The botany department’s agave has entered its death bloom, shooting up over 30 feet since April. Once completed, the ...

The Four Gene Roddenberry Rules That Guided Star Trek's Starship Designs

When Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek" in the 1960s, he instituted several rules for starship design that are still ...

Six jailed over county's largest ever cannabis seizure

Six men have been jailed for their roles in running a "sophisticated" drugs factory that led to the largest ever seizure of ...

Scientific American Unveils Inaugural Class of Young American Scientists, Celebrating the Next Generation of Innovators

Scientific American today announced its inaugural Young American Scientists list, recognizing 28 exceptional early-career ...
Harper's Bazaar

Radical Botany and a Queer Gilded Age Are on View at the Alice Austen House

Before Diane Arbus and Vivian Maier and Berenice Abbott and Helen Levitt, there was Alice Austen. Born in 1866 in Staten Island, Austen was one of the first and most prolific female photographers, ...
New Scientist

Carl Linnaeus

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living organisms, as ...
The Hindu

NEET-UG paper leak: CBI arrests Latur coaching institute owner

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday (May 18, 2026) arrested another key accused named Shivaraj Motegaonkar, a professor and owner of Renukai Chemistry Classes (RCC) Coaching Institute ...
The Free Press Journal

NEET-UG 2026 Paper Leak: Pune Botany Teacher Sent To 14-Day CBI Custody, Named 'Co-Mastermind'

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Sunday sent NEET paper leak accused Manisha Gurunath Mandhare to a 14-day custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Manisha Gurunath Mandhare, an NTA-appointed ...
Hindustan Times

How NEET exam was leaked: ‘2 sets of questions papers’, 3 masterminds and a 5-state network

The alleged leak of the NEET-UG 2026 examination paper has widened dramatically, with the CBI now probing not just a network of middlemen and coaching links, but also insiders within the National ...
The Statesman

NEET Case: Pune Botany teacher Manisha Mandhare, accused co-mastermind behind paper leak, sent to 14-day CBI custody

In a major breakthrough in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak investigation, the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi on Sunday granted 14 days’ custody of accused Manisha Gurunath Mandhare to the Central Bureau of ...
Hindustan Times

NEET leak: CBI closes in on NTA paper-setting group, arrests botany teacher from Pune

A second member of the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) paper-setting committee has been arrested in the NEET-UG 2026 question paper leak case — a senior botany teacher from Pune who allegedly ...
Firstpost

Neet row: CBI arrests Pune botany professor on NTA panel for ‘dictating’ leaked questions in secret classes

Manisha Mandhare had been teaching at Pune’s Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce since 2002 and was due to retire in the next seven months. (Image/Facebook) The Central Bureau of ...