Last year, the minister had proposed the compulsory rural postings for all MBBS students. The announcement met with stiff resistance.
"The national flag's honour is of utmost importance and I would do whatever required for the same," she said.
Nachiappan, however, ruled out an alliance with the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, as it was a "replica of the Bharatiya Janata Party".
Reacting sharply to National Democratic Alliance convenor George Fernandes' statement cautioning the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak not to take on itself a political role, the RSS on Tuesday said it did not need any advice from him.
The former beat Indian Oil while the armymen accounted for Air India in the Ranjit Singh hockey tournament.
Ankita Bhambri and Rushmi Chakravarthy are the other two members of the team that will be coached by Enrico Piperno.
In another match in the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament, Sikh Regiment Centre beat Maharashtra XI 3-0.
Second-half goals from penalty-corners gave the Punjab side a 2-0 win in their opening match in the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma told reporters that the proposed DD news channel will be principally news driven and\n\nwill focus on in-house production.
South Central Railway and Western Railway cakewalked into the second round in the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
The Bankmen, reduced to ten men, beat Namdhari XI 2-0 in the quarter-finals of the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.\n\n
Brighton and Hove Albion's Tomer Hemed grabbed the only goal as they ended Newcastle United's three-match winning streak with a 1-0 victory on Sunday in a battle between two of this season's promoted sides.
'I am a gadha (donkey)! But God has been on my side and I have managed to produce players,' Dronacharya Awardee Merzban Patel tells Laxmi Negi/Rediff.com.
'You hurt me deeply,' Sunil Grover tells his co-star in The Kapil Sharma Show.
Former India hockey Olympian Joseph Antic's condition has improved since being hospitalised in Mumbai on Friday morning.
Partial dismantling of subsidies, movement towards a more transparent policy on natural resources and moves to make India more inviting for foreign investors, are some of Modi government's big achievements.
Dinesh Raheja salutes the legend's versatility in her heyday.
Modern science, has taken decades and decades to prove what has been clearly documented almost 3500 years ago in our ancient texts like the Ashtanga Hridaya, says V R Ananthoo, a strong advocate of age-old healthy eating practices and one of the coordinators of Safe Food Alliance.
Our problem is that we look at these words from a non-Indic perspective, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
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