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As seen in: The Indian Express, MSN, MSN India, The Times of India, Flipboard
Covers:  Education, policy, employment, student-affairs, exams, recruitment-exam issues, schools

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Deepto Banerjee is a journalist with The Indian Express, where he currently serves as a senior sub-editor. He extensively writes on topics like education, policy, employment, study-abroad trends, student affairs, and career-related issues among others. 

Before joining Indian Express Digital, he has worked with The Times of India, where he covered a broad spectrum of topics, from education and student welfare to educational policies.

Deepto holds a postgraduate diploma in English Journalism from…

Deepto Banerjee’s Journalist Portfolio

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CBSE student Vedant says Board is taking credit for its own mistake, rebuts re-evaluation claims

CBSE student Vedant says Board is taking credit for its own mistake, rebuts re-evaluation claims

Vedant Shrivastava's case first gained national attention in May after he alleged that the Physics answer she…

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They were roommates, now they are India's top-two: Meet JEE Advanced 2026 toppers Shubham, Kabeer

They were roommates, now they are India's top-two: Meet JEE Advanced 2026 toppers Shubham, Kabeer

All India ranks 1 and 2, JEE Advanced 2026 toppers share their preparation strategy, the mistakes they would …

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CBSE Class 12 Results: 95% scorers grew by 247% in a decade, three times the rise in student...

CBSE Class 12 Results: 95% scorers grew by 247% in a decade, three times the rise in student...

A decade of CBSE data shows a 247% rise in 95% scorers, leading to a 'saturation of excellence' that made 100…

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CA Final exams to be held twice annually from 2026, January session scrapped: ICAI

CA Final exams to be held twice annually from 2026, January session scrapped: ICAI

Under the new system, candidates will get two opportunities each year to appear for the CA Final examination.…

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How AI helped me prepare for JEE Main

How AI helped me prepare for JEE Main

JEE Main 2026 Session 2 Preparation: Interestingly, although AI may be reshaping preparation strategies with …

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How 90% of India's women professionals are winning the AI race

How 90% of India's women professionals are winning the AI race

India reverses the global pattern: globally, 68% of men feel confident using AI at work, versus 59% of women;…

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IIT Madras joins IIT Kanpur to offer B Cybersecurity course; admissions to be held jointly this year

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By Deepto Banerjee Verified
| The Indian Express Verified
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has joined IIT Kanpur to offer a four-year practice-oriented Bachelor of Cybersecurity (B.Cyber) programme from the 2026-27 academic session. Admissions to the inaugural batch will be conducted jointly, while students will pursue the programme independently at their chosen institute, IIT Madras told Indianexpress.com. Earlier, IIT Kanpur had announced the course with a separate admission process that does not require JEE scores.
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‘CBSE taking credit for its own mistake’: Vedant Shrivastava hits back on marks dispute

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By Deepto Banerjee Verified
| The Indian Express Verified
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 29, 2026 05:05 PM IST The Class 12 Delhi student at the centre of CBSE’s answer-sheet exchange controversy, Vedant Shrivastava, Monday said the Board was taking credit for fixing its own mistake. “These are my actual marks. This is not an increase,” Shrivastava responded after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) claimed it had raised his Physics score by nine marks through re-evaluation.
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CBSE, NEET delays disrupt college admissions; EAPCET, KEAM timelines impacted

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By Deepto Banerjee Verified
| The Indian Express Verified
From OSM glitch to KEAM freeze: How CBSE and NEET failures cascaded across states (AI Image) It started with blurred scans. Answer sheets that didn’t match handwriting. Missing pages. Marks that had no resemblance to what students remembered writing. When CBSE announced this year’s Class 12 results in May, the effects of its first large-scale On-Screen Marking (OSM) rollout came to light, with the repercussions continuing since then.
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I started my career with The Times of India

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No

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