Chandigarh, July 18 -- Four students from the tricity were among the top 100 in the country in the NEET-UG 2026, with Madhvan Mahajan leading the pack at all-India rank (AIR) 44 with 696 marks. For several of the region's top scorers, the results carry an added layer as they had to sit for the exam twice after the original exam was cancelled amid a paper leak row.

Mahajan, 19, a student of Sri Nangali Academics Public School, Gurdaspur, who prepared at Allen Chandigarh and lives in Sector 38, is the son of radiologist Dr Vijay Mahajan and gynaecologist Dr Jyoti Mahajan; his brother Parth is in the fourth year of MBBS. He said his success mantra was consistency and planning, setting daily goals and rolling over anything missed into subseq...