Rand Halawani’s detention also saw four other women arrested on Tuesday, including a former Palestine player.

Israeli authorities have extended the detention of a player on the Palestinian women’s national football team after she was summoned for questioning in Jerusalem, Palestinian officials have reported.

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) denounced the prolonged detention of 20-year-old Rand Halawani, who was arrested on Tuesday evening.

In a statement, it said Halawani’s arrest and that of a former national team player was not an isolated incident, it is part of a well-documented pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability.

According to the Palestinian governorate for Jerusalem, an Israeli court on Wednesday extended Halawani’s detention until Friday.

Israel’s military also arrested former national football player Natalie Abu Diyeh, a student at Birzeit University, as well as three other young Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

The military said in a statement that the four women were suspected of promoting terrorist activities and additional terrorist-related activities.

Birzeit University denounced the arrests as part of Israel’s systematic policies targeting Palestinian education and students’ right to continue their academic journey.

Bishop Imad Haddad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, to which Natalie Abu Diyeh belonged, called for her release.

We are deeply shocked and horrified by this news, as well as by the news that her family does not yet know where she has been taken, Haddad said in a statement on Tuesday.

According to the Prisoners Club, the main association for prisoners’ rights in the Palestinian territories, 89 Palestinian women are currently in Israeli jails, including three minors and three pregnant women.

The Palestinian Authority-affiliated Prisoners Club announced in late May that more than 9,400 Palestinians were in Israeli jails, including Palestinian citizens of Israel.

A video also surfaced, showing occupants jumping out as locals around laid down mattresses for them.

According to residents, the stay was used mostly by people or their families who needed a place to stay while awaiting treatment at Max Hospital nearby. Follow live updates on Delhi fire here.

As stated in an earlier HT report, locals had rushed to save those inside the building, laying mattresses for them. According to a witness, the fire started at the ground floor and soon spread to the upper floor.

“However, all our passports and belongings are inside, and we are worried that those might have been burnt. The building was not well ventilated, as there were no windows, not even in the bathrooms, said Hassan.

“Additionally, the roof was also locked. We were forced to throw brick at windows to break them so that people could jump, said Mohammed Afzal.

However, AK Malik, Chief Fire Officer DFS South Zone, said that seven fire tenders were dispatched after a call was received at 8:50 am, and the deployment increased as more details came in. A total of 37 people were rescued. The fire was extinguished around 10:25 am, and we have completed the final search and cordoned off the building, the official said.

In line with what the locals described, the fire official also said that the building was sealed from all sides and was like a shaft.

“It is sealed from all four sides, as even in the front, there is a facade, and the windows are sealed. In buildings like these, it often hpens that the fire spreads, the chief fire officer added.

The online booking portal for the stay also shows availability of 24 rooms. The property was registered under the silver category of Delhi’s B&B policy, with a license valid till ril 2027.

Meanwhile, a disturbing video showing people jumping out of the building during the fire also surfaced amid claims of the property lacking ventilation and enough windows.

The US military says it carried out ‘self-defence’ strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island after Iran earlier launched missiles and drones at US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Despite the exchange, the US says the US-Iran ceasefire remains in effect.

The portal, which opened a day later than scheduled, allows students to seek verification of issues identified in scanned copies of answer books supplied by the Board and ply for re-evaluation of answers. The plication window will remain open until midnight on June 6.

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The abrupt reassignments come amid intense government scrutiny over the procurement process for the Board’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) system. It is the digital platform deployed for the full-scale assessment of Class 12 answer scripts.

The Union education ministry has since ordered an intensive inquiry into the contract awarded to Hyderabad-based Coempt EduTeck and demanded a detailed report from the Board.

The ministry will take strong action against officials if any wrongdoing is established, an official said, as reported by HT earlier. They added that accountability will be fixed at multiple levels if procedural lses or negligence are established in the tendering process.

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The contract was awarded to Coempt EduTeck on December 5 last year (74 days before the board examinations began on February 17) reportedly after the company undercut tech giant TCS by 60%.

CBSE officials have maintained that the tender process adhered strictly to General Financial Rules (GFR) and government procurement guidelines.

The teen alleged that the Board systematically “rewrote rules” across three tender rounds to favour Coempt EduTeck, which formerly operated under the name Globarena.

The first discrepancy is that there were three clauses of ‘poor performance’ which were completely wiped out from the new RFP. In the earlier RFP, there was a clause called ‘blacklisted earlier’ whereas in the new RFP, it was changed to ‘blacklisted currently’. Why would the board want a service provider which was blacklisted earlier?

A separate Hindustan Times investigation also found technical changes made between successive tender rounds.

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The Parliamentary Standing Committee subsequently reviewed concerns surrounding the OSM system and heard submissions from CBSE and Education Ministry officials. While the panel cannot directly penalise officials, it can seek records, summon individuals and recommend action.

Following the meeting, Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, who chairs the committee, said the panel would now await CBSE’s response to the issues raised.

[Sidhant] has revealed the hollowness of (education minister) Dharmendra Pradhan ji’s denials. The PM remains silent, as usual. The question is simple: who are they protecting, and why? An independent judicial inquiry is now essential to uncover the full extent of this scam, Gandhi wrote on X.

Many said they encountered repeated authentication failures despite entering correct credentials, receiving messages saying, Verification failed, please check details. Others reported that the website froze after subject selection or redirected them to blank screens, forcing them to restart the process.

Students using mobile devices also complained of interface issues, including overlping text and buttons that could not be clicked.

According to CBSE, “Most recent being a denial of service attack attempt causing 1.5 million hits on the portal within a matter of 2 minutes and more than 1 lakh attempts of unauthorised file access.”

The Board said that no offline plications would be accepted and that requests submitted after the deadline would not be entertained.

They can also request re-evaluation of specific questions by providing the question and page numbers. CBSE is charging ₹100 per answer book for verification and ₹25 per question for re-evaluation. Once students click “Freeze” and proceed to payment, their plication details cannot be changed.