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A young Google executive who helped ignite Egypt's uprising energized a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands Tuesday with his first appearance in their midst after being released from 12 days in secret detention. "We won't give up," he promised at one of the biggest protests yet in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Once a behind-the-scenes Internet activist, 30-year-old Wael Ghonim has emerged as an inspiring voice for a movement that has taken pride in being a leaderless "people's revolution." Now, the various activists behind it - including Ghonim - are working to coalesce into representatives to push their demands for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster. With protests invigorated, Vice President Omar Suleiman issued a sharply worded warning, saying of the protests in Tahrir, "We can't bear this for a long time, and there must be an end to this crisis as soon as possible," in a sign of growing impatience with 16 days of mass demonstrations. For the first time, protesters made a foray to Parliament, several blocks away from their camp in the square. Several hundred marched to the legislature and chanted for it to be dissolved.

In order to voice their concerns related to the UGCs planned move to merge the JEE and NEET exams into the CUET, several aspirants have called for a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on 17th August 2022. The protest is being led by student activist Pawan Bhadana and will commence tomorrow at 10 AM. Students are showing opposition to the UGCs stance because of the difference in the difficulty as well as the pattern of both the exams (JEE & NEET). Experts also feel that both exams need to test different skillsets and cannot be merged into a common exam based on an overlapping knowledge base (both exams have Physics & Chemistry as common sections)