Exams, admissions, results and career trends, written by the CareerBox editorial team.
Gujarat’s subordinate services board has advertised 131 Class-3 Staff Nurse posts under the state’s Employees’ State Insurance Scheme. B.Sc. Nursing or GNM holders aged 18 to 35 can apply on OJAS from 6 pm on 28 September to 12 October.
The Supreme Court has directed CBSE to extend to Class 6 the exemption it gave students in Classes 7, 8 and 9 under its three-language rule. They will still study a third language, but will not be forced to take a Class 10 board exam in it.
From 1 October, postgraduate medical and dental students in Chhattisgarh’s government colleges will get ₹85,050 a month in the first year, ₹90,027 in the second and ₹93,996 in the third. Dental residents, who were paid less, now get the same.
The Bihar School Examination Board will accept applications for the School Librarian Eligibility Test 2026 from 1 to 21 October. It is a 150-mark computer-based test with no negative marking, open to Bihar residents with a library science degree.
The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission has rescheduled the Preliminary Eligibility Test 2026, originally set for 23 to 25 October, because polling for the Legislative Council biennial election falls on 23 October.
The Uttar Pradesh Education Services Selection Commission has opened an online facility to correct names, dates of birth and categories on UPTET 2026 certificates. The fee is ₹200 and only one correction will be allowed.
The Ministry of Education has launched the Seva First Innovation Challenge 2026 at IISc Bengaluru for students in five southern states and three Union Territories. Registration runs until 24 October; the national finale is in New Delhi from 10 to 17 December.
Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences has cancelled the MBBS admissions of nine students found ineligible for Scheduled Tribe reservation in Telangana, and flagged 37 in all. The ruling turns on where a family originally belongs, not where it lives now.
Two groups of civil services aspirants have asked the Central Administrative Tribunal to review 27 questions from the 2026 prelims, saying the official answers were wrong or that more than one option was correct. The next hearing is on 8 October.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has named IAS officer Mandeep K. Bhandari chairperson of CBSE, ending a spell in which the post was held as an additional charge. Ankita Mishra Bundela becomes Additional Secretary in the Department of Higher Education.
IIM Jammu and the Ladakh administration have signed an agreement for a satellite campus in Leh. It will offer a four-year BBA (Honours) with 60 seats, starting in October; about 600 students have already expressed interest.
Odisha’s school and mass education minister told the Assembly that 1,741 errors were found in textbooks for Classes 1 to 8, whose printing and publication cost ₹175 crore. The Class 8 science book alone had 294.
Gandhinagar’s Rashtriya Raksha University and the Central Association of Private Security Industry have signed agreements to build a national training and certification framework for private security, from entry-level guards to managers and consultants.
Envision Energy has opened a wind turbine blade plant at Bavla near Ahmedabad with a capacity of 2.66 GW a year, making blades up to 100 metres long. The company says it could create more than 4,000 direct jobs.
The Centre has notified Deendayal Port (Kandla) and Mundra, along with JNPA and Paradip, as mega ports under the Indian Ports Act, 2025. Two of India’s four mega ports are now in Kutch, and they run on a workforce most students never consider.
NBEMS declared the NEET PG 2026 result on 24 September. The qualifying score is 262 for general and EWS candidates, 244 for general PwBD and 226 for SC, ST and OBC. Scorecards, answer keys and response sheets follow on or after 1 October.
MCC has published the round-3 seat lists. The clear vacancy list has 5,480 MBBS, 597 BDS and 114 B.Sc. Nursing seats; the virtual list runs to 9,629 MBBS. 183 seats are brand new this round. Registration closes at 3 pm on 27 September.
Of the MBBS and BDS seats in Gujarat on MCC’s round-3 clear vacancy list, 145 are MBBS and 14 BDS. SBKS Medical Institute at Sumandeep Vidyapeeth accounts for 89, mostly Jain minority and NRI quota. AIIMS Rajkot has eight open seats.
Gujarat’s UG medical admission committee has opened a cancellation window from 10 am on 24 September to 12 noon on 26 September. It is done in person at the help centre where you reported, and in round 2, cancelling cost candidates their security deposit.
Gujarat’s state bus corporation is recruiting 2,510 Helpers on a fixed pay of ₹21,100 a month for five years. Applications on OJAS close at 11:59 pm on 6 October. Age 18 to 35; an ITI in a mechanical or electrical trade is the minimum.
GPSC has opened 15 advertisements (42 to 56/2026-27) for 26 posts, most of them at Gujarat’s ports: pilot officers, port officers, assistant port officers, marine engineers and a naval architect. The preliminary exam is on 13 December.
Zydus Lifesciences officials met senior state officials in Gandhinagar on 24 September about a residential university focused on pharmaceutical and healthcare education and research. It will need an amendment to Gujarat’s private universities law.
After the Supreme Court’s 17 September order, MCC is running a special stray vacancy round for DM, MCh and DNB super-speciality seats. Registration closes at 3 pm on 28 September; the result is on 30 September and reporting runs 1 to 6 October.
BPSC’s fourth teacher recruitment exam (TRE 4.0, Advt. 15/2026) is taking applications from 25 September to 26 October. 16,101 of the posts are for higher secondary. Exam dates have not been announced.
