New Delhi: A 39-year-old driver was killed when a speeding BMW allegedly driven by an MBBS student rammed into the victim's car on Monday, police said. The incident took place at Tilak Marg at around 1:20 am when the victim Mohammad Rafiq, a resident of Mandawali, was returning home. The driver of the BMW was Ayush Arora, an MBBS student who is doing internship with Maulana Azad Medical College. Arora...
11:06 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Justice Vilas V Afzalpurkar of AP High Court on Monday allowed admission for management quota, that is C category, seats of non-minority private medical colleges and directed the NTR University of Health Sciences to examine and take appropriate action on the candidates list submitted to them for the 2012-13 academic session. The admission process had hit a legal hurdle when a two-judge bench had given conflicting verdicts on the...
12:38 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Hyderabad: There is uncertainty in the state over when and whether MBBS admissions under management quota in private medical colleges will begin this year. The admission process has hit a legal hurdle with a two-judge bench of Justice V Eswaraiah and Justice N Ravi Shankar giving conflicting verdicts on a batch of cases in which private medical colleges were accused of not following the merit criteria while filling management seats....
03:11 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Hyderabad: The Medical Council of India has filed an appeal in the AP High Court against the single judge order granting provisional sanction of 50 MBBS additional seats each to the Osmania and Kakatiya medical colleges in the state. Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy had on July 13, while dealing with two writ petitions filed by the medical colleges, granted separate interim orders. He directed the principal secretary (medical & health)...
12:18 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Chennai: Imprinted in R Nithyas memories are her days as a child labourer at a powerloom in Bhavani in Erode District. Forced to work eight hours a day after her family fell into a debt trap and consequently into poverty when she was in Class IV, she lived on a rare two meals a day and a single pair of clothes, as she toiled with her tiny hands to keep...
12:34 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Paper I Section-A Human Anatomy Gross and microscopic anatomy and movements of shoulder, hip and knee joints; Blood supply, nerve innervations of hand, Lymphatic system; Karyotyping, medical genetics; Electron microscopic structure of glomerulous and muscle; Gross and microscopic anatomy and blood supply of lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, testis and uterus; Gross anatomy of pelvis, perineum and inguinal region. Cross-sectional anatomy of the body and mid-thoracic, upper abdominal, mid-abdominal and pelvic...
01:29 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Boman Irani worked in Rajkumar Hirani's first film 'Munnabhai MBBS' and recently teamed with Rajesh Mapuskar for his debut vehicle 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari'. The talented actor, known for his comic roles, says he has never hesitated to work with newcomers in his decade-long career. "I hold a record. I have done 22 films with new directors. There are a lot more young directors out there. I cannot be...
01:58 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on June 7 permitted the Union Health Ministry to undertake online counselling for admission of students to undergraduate medical courses for 15 per cent central seats in government colleges across the country. An apex court bench of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice JS Khehar cleared the decks for online counselling for admissions to MBBS and BDS after it gave the go-ahead to the scheme submitted...
02:29 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Puducherry: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in Puducherry will release on June 1 the result of the entrance exam held at the all India level for selection of students to first MBBS course during 2012-2013 academic year in the institute. Seventy five per cent of the 40,000 candidates who had applied for the entrance test in various parts of the country simultaneously appeared for the test on...
03:43 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The proposed common exams for admission to MBBS and MD courses all over the country will be held from the next academic session, Health Ministry officials said on Monday. The officials told MPs at the Consultative Committee Meeting on Health that the proposed common tests, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Undergraduate (NEET-UG) and Postgraduate (NEET-PG) medical courses, have been notified for commencement from 2013-14. "The common...
07:05 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has framed a series of guidelines for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in the country, saying after July 15 each year, neither the government nor the medical or dental councils shall issue any recognition or approval for that academic year. "The commencement of new courses or increase in seats of existing courses of MBBS/BDS are to be approved/recognised by the government of India by...
10:46 AM, May 13, 2012
Speaking to CNN-IBN's Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Shena Aggarwal said there is no success formula to crack UPSC Civil Services exams. ...
10:46 PM, May 04, 2012
Dadasaheb Phalke's silent Marathi feature film Raja Harishchandra premiered in May, 1913. The countdown to 100 years of Indian cinema begins this year. As part of our celebrations, we start with a series of retro reviews of some of the timeless classics. How would you rate films such as Saheb Biwi Aur Ghulam, Pakeezah or Sholay if you saw them today? We hope to revive the familiar nostalgia and fondness...
12:55 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Mumbai: For all we know, the new Vidya Balan hit Kahaani may turn into a franchise soon. Director Sujoy Ghosh wants to cast Vidya in a series of films based on her character. "I feel her character Vidya Bagchi has the potential to grow and go much further. I don't want to do a sequel for a sequel's sake. I see my protagonist growing into other stories and circumstances. It...
11:01 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Mumbai: Director-producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra says he hates producing films but does so to ensure that the idea that directors want to communicate is not lost under commercial pressure. "I hate producing films. If I don't produce films like '...M.B.B.S.' and others, the idea that directors wanted to communicate must have lost in the commercial pressure," Chopra told reporters here Wednesday before the screening of '3 Idiots', which was shown...
01:53 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: Film producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra confessed in an interview that he wanted to cast Shah Rukh Khan in 'Munna Bhai MBBS' and '3 Idiots' but the actor refused to accept the role due to date issues. This interview left the readers wondering about what would have happened if Shah Rukh would have played the lead roles in both the films. Shah Rukh could have taken the role of...
11:30 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra shared some trade secrets with fans at a special screening of some of his best works in Mumbai. ...
11:02 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Those who have seen 'Parinda' would understand the importance of this film in shaping the Hindi film industry of today. The dreaded underworld with all its loneliness didn't look overhyped for the first time. Terror didn't have a face this time. 'Parinda' coined the term Indian noir. Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the director of 'Parinda', was a man with vision since his college days. His diploma film 'Murder at...
01:52 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Agitating MBBS students at AIIMS in New Delhi on Thursday suspended their indefinite relay hunger strike, called in the wake of the alleged suicide by a first-year student, after the premier medical hospital's authorities promised to look into some of their demands. "We have decided to suspend our strike as of now. The decision has been taken after the hospital administration gave us a written assurance that they...
08:46 AM, Mar 08, 2012
HYDERABAD: As many as 1,000 additional seats will be available in medical colleges in the state from this academic year. According to the medical and health minister DL Ravindra Reddy, the Medical Council of India has promised 600 medical seats in 10 government medical colleges and the remaining 400 in private colleges. As recruitment of faculty is imperative for allotment of seats, the state government has decided to hasten the...
09:02 AM, Jan 06, 2012
