Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan reviewed NEET-UG 2026 re-test preparations at NTA, emphasizing strict confidentiality, cyber security, and inter-agency coordination for the June 21 exam.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned at a briefing in Izhevsk about increasing physical threats to nuclear facilities, notably the Zaporozhye NPP and Iran’s Bushehr NPP. She urged strong physical security worldwide, stressed host-country responsibility, highlighted the IAEA’s leading role in international cooperation, and called for strict confidentiality of security data.
An investigation has found that Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to add a secrecy provision to datacentre regulations in 2024, blocking public access to environmental performance data. The provision, written almost word-for-word from industry demands, prevents researchers from accessing individual datacentre pollution metrics, leaving only national-level summaries. Legal scholars warn the confidentiality clause violates EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.
A nurse from south London, Jennifer Melle, has won a settlement against Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust after being suspended over alleged patient confidentiality breaches. She was suspended after speaking to the media about receiving a warning for using the wrong pronouns for a transgender patient.
