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Sharat Kumar

Sharat Kumar

Editor with India Today Group

Born in Bihar's Buxar district, Sharat Kumar is a seasoned journalist currently based out of Rajasthan.

He has been in working in India Todaty Group for close to two decades. He has traveled to all part of Rajasthan covering political, social, human interest stories from far and beyond. Kumar has keen interest in stories that concern the common people.

He has covered five assembly elections and same number of Lok Sabha elections in the desert state, the biggest state in the country.

He has done stories on sale of women on stamp paper for which he received the UNFPA Ladli Award, international smuggling racket involving sale of artefacts, racket involving PhD and Engineering degrees being made availavble sitting at home. He also exposed the wretched state of cows in the Hingonia cow shelter in Jaipur.

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Rajasthan's 'paper universities' spent crores despite empty campuses, no students

An India Today investigation into Rajasthan's so-called "paper universities" has exposed empty campuses, missing students and crores spent on salaries, vehicles and offices despite little academic activity. Following the report, the Rajasthan government removed VC Dev Swaroop amid allegations of corruption, fake documents and recruitment irregularities.

Rajasthan paper universities row exposes empty campuses and wasted crores

Law News

Rajasthan High Court upholds Asaram Bapu's life term, drops gangrape charge

While rejecting Asaram's plea to set aside his life sentence, the bench held that charges of rape, sexual assault under the POCSO Act and offences under the Juvenile Justice Act stood proved. However, granting him partial relief, the court said the evidence on record was insufficient to sustain charges related to gangrape and criminal conspiracy.

Asaram Bapu case

India News

NEET case-accused Rajasthan family's 5 MBBS students vanish from colleges

Several members of the Rajasthan-based Biwal family have reportedly gone missing after three relatives were arrested in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case. Investigators suspect the arrests may open up a wider network involving leaked papers, coaching links and earlier medical entrance exams.

CBI makes fresh arrests in NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case.

Education

135 questions in NEET practice bank match actual exam, Rajasthan cops probe

Concerns over a possible NEET 2026 paper leak have grown after investigators found that a handwritten "guess paper" circulated before the exam allegedly matched questions worth nearly 600 marks in the actual NEET paper held on May 3. The NTA, which conducts NEET, said it was aware of the alleged malpractice and awaiting the probe outcome.

NEET exam
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