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In a significant order, the Supreme Court on Friday issued directions that the post-graduate medical entrance exam scheduled on June 15 be conducted in a single shift, saying holding it in two shifts 'creates arbitrariness'.
The Union Health Ministry on June 22 postponed the NEET-PG entrance examination, scheduled to be held on June 23, as a "precautionary measure" in the wake of allegations on the integrity of certain competitive exams.
A case was registered by the police after the teen lodged a formal complaint.
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The NEET-PG counselling will commence from January 12, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Sunday.
Resident doctors in Delhi, who have been protesting over the delay in NEET PG counselling for two weeks, on Friday called off their strike after receiving assurances from the government that their demands would be looked into, their federation said.
In an online chat with readers Soumya Banerjee, CEO, Attano Media and Education Pvt Ltd, an interactive educational eBook store and Navin C Joshi, CEO, ENTRANCEi, a leading education services provider addressed queries on how to crack the medical entrance test for undergraduate programmes in India.
Telangana's Mrinal Kutteri, Delhi's Tanmay Gupta and Maharashtra's Karthika G Nair shared the top rank, scoring 720 out of 720. Eight transgender candidates have also cleared the examination.
A meeting between a delegation of the Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya took place, but the doctors' body said, the 'response was not satisfactory'.
'With our focus and strategy we can solve at least 20 per cent per cent of India's education problems.'
In a significant order, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected pleas of state governments and minority institutions to allow them to hold separate entrance exams for MBBS and BDS courses.
The order implied that all government colleges, deemed universities and private medical colleges would be covered under NEET and those examinations which have already taken place or slated to be conducted separately stand scrapped.
'Our future is in limbo. The government saved us with Operation Ganga; now, they must save our careers.'
The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the decks for holding of National Eligibility Entrance Test in two phases for the academic year 2016-17.
Modifying its December 2012 ruling, the Supreme Court today dissolved the Medical Council of India's notification to hold a single entrance test for medical, dental and post graduate medical programmes in the country.
Outgoing Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on Thursday dismissed criticism against the Supreme Court judgement on the Mumbai dance bar issue saying if the constitutional rights of the people have been affected it was duty of the judiciary to protect them.
He also underlined that activism has to be blended with restraint and there cannot be a compromise with other aspects of the basic structure in the name of judicial independence.
The first phase of the single entrance test National Eligibility Entrance Test for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses across the country will be held on May 1 .
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