{"id":1015861,"date":"2026-06-20T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015861"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:54:17","slug":"ahead-of-neet-ug-re-test-nta-begins-sending-exam-updates-to-candidates-via-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/ahead-of-neet-ug-re-test-nta-begins-sending-exam-updates-to-candidates-via-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of NEET-UG re-test, NTA begins sending exam updates to candidates via WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: To ensure the NEET-UG retest on Sunday (June 21) takes place smoothly, the National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct a nationwide drill on Saturday, said the education ministry. <\/p>\n<p>The NTA said that it was fully geared up to conduct a \u201ctransparent and secure\u201d re-exam through a multi-layered security and monitoring framework, mobilisation of over 2 lakh personnel and candidate-centric measures. The agency has started reaching out to the 22.79 lakh candidates through Whatsapp while asserting that no leaks have taken place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: To ensure the NEET-UG retest on Sunday (June 21) takes place smoothly, the National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct a nationwide drill on Saturday, said the education ministry. The NTA said that it was fully geared up to conduct a \u201ctransparent and secure\u201d re-exam through a multi-layered security and monitoring framework, mobilisation of over 2 lakh personnel and candidate-centric measures. The agency has started reaching out to the 22.79 lakh candidates through Whatsapp while asserting that no leaks have taken place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015870,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015861\/revisions\/1015870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}