Overview
- Jharkhand’s government announced on Monday that it has cancelled the JSSC‑CGL (combined graduate level) exam after a 24‑day protest by thousands of candidates who alleged paper leaks and faulty outsourcing.
- The cabinet also nullified exams run by TSR Data Processing Pvt Ltd (TDPL) and created a commission led by IAS officer Amitabh Kaushal to redesign recruitment processes and prevent repeat failures.
- Three student leaders ended hunger strikes after the cancellation, yet organisers and many protesters continue to demand a separate CBI investigation into alleged corruption and exam management lapses.
- In a related policing/legal development, the Bihar government told the Supreme Court it filed 69 FIRs, arrested about 500 people during protests and reported a constable fired four AK‑47 rounds into the air in Siwan; some students without records were released on bail.
- Officials and civic groups say the story is part of a wider moment of accountability: weather warnings from the IMD affect protest logistics, fact‑checks have corrected misattributed violence footage, and a new crowd‑sourced site, bribes.fyi, aims to map petty corruption while its data limits remain clear.