The racket involving sale of MBBS seats is thriving in the state with college managements refusing to issue application forms to meritorious students for applying under the management quota.

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The Medical Council of India (MCI) has asked the state government to enquire into the complaints over the sale of MBBS seats by private medical colleges in the state under management quota during the

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday favoured increasing the duration of the MBBS course from the existing 5.5 years to 6.5 years and said the Medical Council of India was working on the proposa

The government on Monday said any doctor going to the US for higher medical studies would have to sign a bond with it before leaving and honour the document by returning to India after finishing the s

The Justice Muhammed panel has warned the Kerala private medical college managements association that its proposed entrance exam for PG/diploma admissions has no legal validity. The panel said the exa

With only 4,800 seats being available in 37 medical colleges across the state to a record 94,000 applications for medical courses this year, the state government could have eased the situation by pur

Exercising its extraordinary constitutional powers, the Supreme Court has allowed four medical students of Kerala to complete their MBBS course despite their admissions being irregular as they failed

In view of the Union health ministry giving its nod and the Centre making the requisite amendments in “Regulations on Graduate Medical Education” as well as Post-Graduate Medical Education, a “common

Satisfied with the follow-up action taken by the government on Medical Council of India’s proposal to have common national eligibility-cum-entrance test (NEET) for medical college admissions across th

While the ministers are indulging in tall talk about solving the self-finance muddle, an agency working out of a cubicle in front of the government Secretariat offers MBBS seats for Rs 15 lakh each, c