The Jharkhand government agreed to cancel the 14th JPSC preliminary exam along with the 2023 and 2025 backlog recruitments and to initiate CID and ED probes after more than two weeks of student demonstrations over alleged recruitment irregularities. Education Minister Sudivya Kumar stated that 98 percent of protester demands were accepted, though student leaders announced plans to continue marches to the assembly. Both Hindustan Times and The Hindu reported these developments from left-center perspectives only.