India, Feb. 14 -- Twenty-three candidates, including maximum seven from Telangana, have bagged the perfect 100 score in the first session of or JEE-Main 2024 for admission to engineering colleges, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Tuesday. All 23 candidates to secure the top score are males, while Dwija Dharmeshkumar Patel from Gujarat bagged the highest 99.99 NTA score among female aspirants. A total of 1,221,624 candidates, including 400,937 females and nine third gender persons, had registered for JEE (Main) Session 1. Of them, 1,170,048 (or 95.8%) aspirants appeared in the exam -the highest ever number of candidates to have taken the exam since NTA started conducting it in 2018.HTc...