The Supreme Court has ruled that there will be no single entrance exam for PG medical and dental colleges this year. States which didn't conduct their own exams will follow the NEET results, but they are not binding on all states. ...
07:33 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgement will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July. The Supreme Court has also left the option of following the NEET result on the colleges. This means...
02:45 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday decide the fate of 90,000 medical aspirants after it takes a decision on National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) or the common entrance test for MBBS, Dental and PG medical courses. This comes more than a month after a CNN-IBN sting operation exposed how PG medical seats were being sold in black in clear violation of a Supreme Court order. Meanwhile, it...
08:53 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: A prosecution witness on Monday told a fast track court in New Delhi that the bite marks on the body of the Delhi braveheart were likely caused by two of the accused in the case. The witness, who practices forensic odontology which deals with the proper handling, examination and evaluation of dental evidence, submitted that some of the bite marks on the 23-year-old girl reasonably matched the dental...
10:47 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: After exposing the rot in medical education, CNN-IBN now turns its focus to the plight of medical students who are caught in the stand-off between private colleges and the government. With the Supreme Court decision on the single entrance exam National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) still pending, admissions are yet to happen, leaving the future of 90,000 students hanging. The suspense is leading to anger and frustration...
10:51 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Mumbai: After Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, another state minister is in trouble after he was caught on camera hurling abuse at students. Minister of State for Medical Education Vijaykumar Gavit used some choice words at a group of 25 dental college students. The Akola students were seeking permission to sit for their exams in another college after their institution was derecognised. The video shows the minister yelling at...
09:43 AM, Apr 17, 2013
United States has selected the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart for the International Women of Courage Award. The award to the braveheart would be presented posthumously by the First Lady Michelle Obama and the Secretary of State John Kerry, on March 8, an official announcement said on Monday. ...
06:39 AM, Mar 05, 2013
"I wanted to rob a bank to raise money to publish a book," a medical student, who was caught robbing a bank at knife-point a few days ago, told a trial court in Panaji. The student Mayur Gupta, who belongs to Agra, was granted bail on Tuesday. ...
12:35 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Stepping up measures for women's saftey in the backdrop of growing demand for such action, Karnataka government on January 3 set up a dedicated helpline. Women in distress and those facing threat of attack including molestation could call on phone number 1091. The helpline in Bangalore would work 24x7, state Home Minister R Ashok told reporters here. ...
03:04 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Delhi police team, that came here in search of Akshay Thakur, an accused in Delhi gangrape case, returned on Thursday with "vital" information about the fugitive. Aurangabad acting superintendent of police Pranav Kumar told PTI that the Delhi police team rigorously questioned the father and brother of the accused, who hails from Lahankarma village of the district and is about 125 km from Patna, before returning to the national...
06:32 PM, Dec 20, 2012
The police on Monday made the first arrest in connection with the brutal gangrape of a Delhi medical student inside a moving bus in the national capital. The police arrested the prime accused in the case identified as Ram Singh, who is the regular driver of the bus in which the crime was committed. ...
11:49 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Delhi Police have made some progress in the brutal assault and gangrape of a medical student on Sunday night. Sources say police have identified five-six main accused and the bus, inside which the horrific crime took place, was found in a school campus in Noida. Sources says the bus is used for ferrying school children. ...
04:41 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The victim of the brutal gangrape in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar area is said to be in a critical condition and fighting for her life in the ICU of the Safdarjung hospital after suffering intestinal damage during the horrific assault. The doctors attending to her said that she was hit by a blunt object and suffered injuries to her abdomen and intestines. ...
02:15 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Admission to all postgraduate courses in medical colleges across India from next year will be through a common entrance test to be conducted by National Board of Examination from November 23 to December 6, 2012. The test will be applicable for PG seats of all the 350 medical colleges across India, which account for close to 20,000 seats, except the three institutes set up by acts of Parliament...
11:21 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: A 25-year-old postgraduate medical student who tried to kill himself last week allegedly over fee hike succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday, police said. "Dr Neeraj Jhadhav, a first year PG student pursuing Master in Surgery at NHL Municipal Medical College, affiliated to V S Hospital, had jumped from the hostel building over fee hike issue on August 31. He succumbed to his injuries today," said the police. A...
11:26 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Guwahati: A post graduate student of Guwahati Medical College Hospital allegedly committed suicide by taking an overdose of drugs, police said on Tuesday. Pritam Das, a post graduate student, was found dead in his hostel room on Monday night by his friends. Pritam, a resident of Tinsukia, completed his MBBS from Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh and was currently doing his post-graduation in Pediatrics Department in Guwahati Medical College. Hospital...
05:01 PM, Sep 04, 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
Mumbai: A Mazgaon-based medical student, whose enrollment in a Pune institute was hanging in the balance after the board nullified it saying that the institute admitted him after the cut-off date, received some relief from the High Court last week, which chided the institute for the goof-up. The court snubbed the institutes justification that it admitted the 28-year-old afterward since it could not get any candidates within the deadline set...
01:08 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: A first-year MBBS student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room on Saturday, after, claim his friends, facing severe discrimination at the institute. Anil Kumar Meena hailed from a village in Rajasthan. His friends are boycotting classes on Monday as a mark of protest. They claim he was struggling to cope with English...
11:27 AM, Mar 05, 2012
The fast track court had granted bail to the four on July 17 after 16 months of custody. ...
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