SC quashes common entrance tests for medical courses
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the Medical Council of India's (MCI) notification for holding common entance tests for MBBS, BDS and post-graduate medical courses.
A three-judge benc
1,050 seats, women’s medical college for Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad: The Medical Council of India (MCI) on Monday approved a women’s medical college for the city for the 2013-14 academic year. This is the first non-minority medical college in the state excl
Medicos go on flash strike
Over 300 medicos held a sit-in and hunger protest at the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University campus on Saturday demanding that the university publish first-year results again as per Medical Council o
Medicos drag college management to court
A group of medicos has dragged the management of a private medical college to court, after they were harassed and asked to pay an exorbitant amount as tuition fees.
The state fees committee, headed
Court grants bail to Ramadoss and eight others in graft case
Former Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and eight others, accused in a corruption case relating to the grant of illegal permission to a medical college to admit students, were on Saturday gra
Bailable warrant against Ramadoss in medical college scam
A Delhi court on Saturday issued a bailable warrant against former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss after he failed to appear before it in a case of allegedly allowing a medical college to go ahea
Cyber cops nail copycat medicos’ role
The interim report of the cyber cops of Chennai police on hi-tech copying by students of Stanley medical college during their examination, submitted to Dr MGR Medical university, says nine students r
Pvt colleges PG entrance exams invalid
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
Medical college's pro-poor admission policy gets SC nod
Unaided private medical colleges can admit the poor and deserving students free of cost in its management quota even if that requires waving statutory regulations hindering such admissions, the Suprem