Chandy seeks PM’s help for educational loans
July 20th, 2012 - 7:32 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 20 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Friday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who holds the finance portfolio, to direct commercial banks to sanction educational loans to ... Read more...
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Court asks MCI to grant additional seats in Telangana colleges
July 13th, 2012 - 8:46 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, July 13 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh High Court Friday directed the Medical Council of India (MCI) to grant 50 additional MBBS seats each to three medical colleges under ... Read more...
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Congress’ youth, students wings call strike in Tripura
July 11th, 2012 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, July 11 (IANS) The main opposition Congress party's youth and students wings have called a 12-hour shutdown in Tripura Friday to protest alleged irregularities in medical and engineering examinations ... Read more...
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Court stops Tripura engineering admissions
July 10th, 2012 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, July 10 (IANS) The Gauhati High Court's bench here Tuesday stopped the counselling of students for admission to medical and engineering courses on a plea alleging irregularities in the ... Read more...
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Website not hacked: Health ministry (Lead)
June 21st, 2012 - 11:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Denying that its website had been hacked, the union health ministry told the Supreme Court Thursday that the allocation of seats for post-graduate (PG) medical ... Read more...
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Admission software hacked, medical student tells court (Lead)
June 19th, 2012 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday was told by a petitioner that the software developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for online counselling and admission to ... Read more...
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Admission software hacked, medical student tells court
June 19th, 2012 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday was told by a petitioner that the software developed by the National Informatics Centre for online counselling and admission to post-graduate ... Read more...
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Man gets 3 years’ jail for impersonating in AIIMS exam
June 13th, 2012 - 10:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) A Delhi court has awarded a man three years rigorous imprisonment for his involvement in a case of impersonation in an AIIMS entrance examination.Additional Chief ... Read more...
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SC permits online counselling for undergraduate medical students (Lead)
June 7th, 2012 - 9:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday permitted the union health ministry to undertake online counselling for students seeking admission to undergraduate medical courses against 15 percent ... Read more...
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SC permits online counselling for undergraduate medical courses
June 7th, 2012 - 3:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday permitted the union health ministry to undertake online counselling for admission of students to undergraduate medical courses for 15 percent central ... Read more...
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Apex court’s nod to e-counselling for PG medical courses
March 23rd, 2012 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 23 (INAS) The Supreme Court Friday permitted the online counselling for allotment of 50 percent seats of all-India quota for admission in post graduate medical courses in the ... Read more...
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Two doctors arrested in AIIMS exam leak racket (Lead)
January 13th, 2012 - 10:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Two more doctors have been apprehended for involvement in the leaking of the AIIMS post-graduate medical entrance test papers Sunday. They had reportedly stuck a ... Read more...
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Apex court declines order on national medical entrance test
December 16th, 2011 - 10:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IAJNS) The Supreme Court Friday declined to pass an order on the central government's plea seeking amendment of the Medical Council of India's December 2010 notification to ... Read more...
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Muslim students in Britain boycotting lectures on evolution
November 27th, 2011 - 11:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 27 (IANS) A growing number of Muslim students at a leading British university are avoiding lectures on evolution, saying it is contrary to the creationist ideas stated in ... Read more...
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Syllabus for common medical entrance test released
November 4th, 2011 - 10:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) The Medical Council of India Friday released the syllabus for the first-ever common entrance test for undergraduate medical courses.The syllabus, available on the MCI website, ... Read more...
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India issues advisory for students bound for Eurasia
October 19th, 2011 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) India Wednesday issued an advisory asking Indian students already pursuing or planning to study in the Eurasian region to cross-check facts about the security situation ... Read more...
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Include child abuse treatment in medical courses: Activists
October 10th, 2011 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Diagnosing and psychologically healing child abuse cases should be included in the basic medical training of doctors and nurses, child rights activists said here Monday."Child ... Read more...
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4,500 MBBS seats added: Azad
August 2nd, 2011 - 8:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Easing of norms in medical colleges has resulted in addition of approximately 4,500 seats in MBBS courses, while nearly 6,400 seats have been increased at ... Read more...
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Exempt Tamil Nadu from common medical entrance test: Jayalalithaa
August 2nd, 2011 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 2 (IANS) Strongly protesting the central government's move to conduct a nationwide common entrance exam for admission to undergraduate and post graduate medical courses, Tamil Nadu Chief ... Read more...
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Errors force Goa to recall Class 12 mark sheets, probe ordered (Lead)
May 21st, 2011 - 11:53 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 21 (IANS) Over 12,000 Class 12 students have been left in a lurch after the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHE) withdrew their mark sheets, ... Read more...
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Error forces Goa board to recall Class 12 mark sheets
May 21st, 2011 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, May 21 (IANS) Over 12,000 Class 12 students have been left in a lurch after the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHE) withdrew their mark sheets, ... Read more...
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Be well prepared to provide quality health: Azad tells medical fraternity
April 21st, 2011 - 10:09 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Apr 21 (ANI): Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today called upon the medical fraternity to be well prepared to tackle the problems and challenges emerging from newer concerns of ... Read more...
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Supreme Court slams lapses in medical college admissions
April 9th, 2011 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) In an apparent expression of its exasperation over the state of medical education in the country, the Supreme Court slammed the authorities for ignoring the ... Read more...
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MCI moots reforms in medical courses, exams
March 30th, 2011 - 12:18 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) A common entrance test for all undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses, a licenciation exam after internship and a new M.Med. course for medical graduates are ... Read more...
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MCI calls meeting to reform medical curriculum
March 28th, 2011 - 10:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) The Medical Council of India will Tuesday hold a critical meeting to revise the medical syllabus and look into other reforms in the undergraduate and ... Read more...
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Apex court nod for common MBBS entrance test (Lead)
March 8th, 2011 - 12:39 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday paved the way for implementing the Medical Council of India's (MCI) notification providing for a common entrance test for undergraduate medical ... Read more...
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Supreme Court gives nod to single common test for medical courses
March 7th, 2011 - 7:48 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 7 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central Government to hold a single eligibility- cum-entrance examination for Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and post-graduate medical ... Read more...
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Apex court nod for common MBBS entrance test
March 7th, 2011 - 5:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday paved the way for implementing the Medical Council of India (MCI) notification providing for common entrance test for undergraduate medical courses ... Read more...
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Kashmir trashes MCI notification for medical courses
January 11th, 2011 - 1:49 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Jan 11 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir has decided to continue the selection process for medical graduate and post-graduate courses through its Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE), trashing the Medical Council ... Read more...
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Apex court clears way for common medical entrance test
December 13th, 2010 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday permitted the Medical Council of India (MCI) to conduct a common test for undergraduate medical courses while it is yet to decide on ... Read more...
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Supreme Court clears MCI’s common medical entrance test
December 13th, 2010 - 1:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday permitted the Medical Council of India (MCI) to conduct a common test for undergraduate medical courses even as it decides on pending cases ... Read more...
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States’ views sought on common medical entrance test (Lead)
October 22nd, 2010 - 11:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday sought the response of all the states, union territories and associations of private medical colleges on a petition by the Medical Council of ... Read more...
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Rules for common test to medical courses finalised
September 17th, 2010 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) The central government Friday informed the Supreme Court that it had finalised the rules and regulations for all India common entrance test (CET) for post-graduate medical courses.
The ... Read more...
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Stress on schools, not higher education: Digvijay to Sibal
September 11th, 2010 - 4:18 pm ICT by IANS
Jabalpur, Sep 11 (IANS) A day after Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal announced far-reaching proposed reforms in IIT entrance exams, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh Saturday targetted the minister, ... Read more...
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Foreign students, medical courses likely in IITs (Lead)
September 10th, 2010 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Foreign students and faculty, medical courses and a new pattern for entrance exams are among the reforms planned for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Human Resource Development ... Read more...
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