Its official now, the Com-mon Entrance Test (CET) for both under-graduate medical students and post-graduate medical students will commence from the academic year 2013-2014.

While the world has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of safe drinking water well in advance of the MDG 2015 deadline, India is among the ten countries after China with the largest population without access to improved drinking water.

After National Commission for Women chairperson Mamata Sharma claimed that “sexy meant beautiful”, women and child development minister Krishna Tirath has sought an explanation from her for the remark.

The US FDA has warned that some widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, also known as statins, could raise blood sugar levels and cause memory loss. Accordingly, the FDA has announced safety changes to the labelling for these drugs. Doctors in India say the new warnings are crucial as statins are widely used drugs.

Pakistan on Saturday blamed its war against terror for creating hurdles in the way of its polio eradication efforts and said it would seek India’s expertise in its fight against polio.

After having hit the roadblock over the move to block sex determination tools available on the Web, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has now asked his counterpart in communications and information technology ministry to formulate guidelines to block access to the websites.

In two more days, it will be clear whether India is off the WHO polio endemic list. Last 70 samples are now being tested by the health ministry laboratories. If all samples are negative, India will be off the list.

After much dilly-dallying, the ministry of women and child development’s ambitious proposal to pump massive resources into its hunger-related scheme finally got a push from the Planning Commission.

In a move that could help reduce cases of sexual abuse in the country, the women and child development (WCD) ministry has decided to make reporting of such cases mandatory, in contrast to the standing

Women living with HIV or at high risk of HIV can safely use hormonal contraceptives to prevent pregnancy, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, clearing all speculations involving the issue.