New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has ordered a probe after CNN-IBN reported that officials close to former Medical Council of India chairman Ketan Desai were being allowed a back door entry into the Council. "A committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the Director General of ICMR. The committee will submit its report within two months," Azad said. The Board of Directors, which was given the task...
11:07 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: It seems that another scandal is set to rock the Health Ministry. A CNN-IBN investigation has revealed that former Medical council of India (MCI) members, close to arrested former chief Ketan Desai, are being brought back into the Medical Council. The Board of Governors that was appointed to clean up the mess is under scrutiny. Two years after Ketan Desai's arrest and dissolution of the Medical Council of...
10:05 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Medical Council Amendment Bill despite key UPA constituent Trinamool Congress opposed the same. With the passage of the bill, the Medical Council of India (MCI) will come under a proposed National Commission of Human Resources for Health. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad confirmed that the Medical Council Amendment Bill was on Monday passed in the Lok Sabha. The proposed body will...
07:26 PM, May 07, 2012
Charlotte, North Carolina: Home-town favourite Webb Simpson birdied the 17th hole to break a logjam at the top and seize a one-stroke lead going into Sunday's final round of the Wells Fargo Championship, as Rory McIlroy charged into contention with a 66. Simpson, who lives near the Quail Hollow golf course at Charlotte, North Carolina, carded a three-under-par 69 for a total of 202 to lead second-placed countrymen Ryan Moore...
09:32 AM, May 06, 2012
Mumbai: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India in a recent report is learnt to have indicted Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for preferential allotment of a plot in Mumbai to a trust founded by him and holding on to it for four years in breach of conditions. According to the report yet to be tabled in the Maharashtra legislature, the 23,840 sq m plot in suburban Borivali was allotted to...
08:20 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to Bollywood film producer Subhash Ghai, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Bombay High Court order quashing the 20 acre land allotted to his film institute in Filmcity. A bench of justices HL Dattu and CK Prasad also pulled up former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for allotting the land in 2004, saying the CM cannot bend or bypass rules to give away government...
01:00 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Kolkata: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to double the existing number of coins to 12 billion pieces to keep pace with their increasing demand. An expert committee will also be set up to assess the feasibility and make necessary recommendations. "There has been ever increasing demand of coins in the country. Keeping this in mind, the RBI is mulling to...
01:23 AM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: Former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss is under CBI scanner with the agency finalising its charge sheet which names him for his alleged help to a Indore based medical college to get MCI accreditation even though it was not eligible for the same. The agency has sought government nod for prosecution of two Health Ministry officials: a Deputy Secretary and an under secretary and two doctors of Safdarjung Medical...
11:06 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Kapali Patne's alleged medical negligence case remains caught in red-tapeism at the MCI. CJ Parikshit battles on. ...
08:10 PM, Dec 10, 2011
New Delhi: One and a half years after the don of the Medical Council of India, Ketan Desai was arrested for taking a bribe of Rs 2 crore, the Central Bureau of Investigation is finally ready with a chargesheet. CNN-IBN has accessed the confidential papers that document how the deal was struck, rules bent, quality of medical education compromised and how money changed hands. The CBI decoded the modus operandi...
08:25 PM, Sep 14, 2011
New Delhi: It's been a year since the Medical Council of India (MCI) was dissolved and its president Ketan Desai arrested. But it seems the rot in the MCI has yet to be cleaned out. A case in point is Dr Sangeeta Sharma, the senior most officer in the MCI. CNN-IBN accessed documents that prove that the Health Ministry raised questions about the validity of her appointment as secretary. In...
06:43 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Medical Council of India has once again come in news for another controversy. Its new secretary has resigned alleging misbehavior by Board Members, but it remains to be seen if that is the real reason. Interestingly the news of her resignation came 24 hours after CNN-IBN contacted her, asking her whether or not her appointment was legal. The image of MCI President Ketan Desai being handcuffed and...
11:10 AM, Jun 26, 2011
New Delhi: Another controversy in the tainted Medical Council of India (MCI). MCI secretary Dr Sangeeta Sharma has resigned alleging rude and indecent behavior by the Board's Chairman, Dr KK Talwar. Incidentally, the Health Ministry had raised objections about her appointment and asked the Board of Governors if her appointment had been made under the prescribed recruitment rules. The Health Ministry wanted the MCI board to get an ACC approval...
08:26 AM, Jun 23, 2011
New Delhi: MCI Secretary Sangeeta Sharma has resigned from her position, alleging "rude and indecent" behaviour meted out to her by Board's Chairman Dr KK Talwar. She put in her papers on June 14, stating that she was resigning under duress and hoped that "no other official of any rank in the MCI shall be given such an insulting treatment in the future". "An issue is being made out of...
10:37 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Jaipur: JM Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Junot Diaz, Martin Amis, Jay McInerney amongst the literary stars who converged at the landscaped lawns of the 17th century Diggy Palace in Jaipur, reflecting the eclectic spirit of the sixth edition of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, which promises to be the "biggest and the best". As they gathered for an informal dinner on Thursday night, they pledged to debate, discuss...
10:40 AM, Jan 21, 2011
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