The bench said that granting a stray round of counselling for NEET 2021 would have public health implications
The Supreme Court reserved its order on petitions seeking special stray round of counselling to fill 1,456 seats in NEET-PG-21 which have remained vacant after conduct of stray round of counselling
The Bench asked the MCC to fill the seats, failing which an order might be passed to compensate the students affected by the vacancies
The AIADMK Coordinator and ex-CM of Tamil Nadu O.Panneerselvam has urged PM Narendra Modi to exempt Ukraine-returned medical students from the National Eligiblity-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya lauded the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) for announcing the results in record 10 day
A total of 182,318 candidates had taken the exam
Supreme Court on Monday refused to lower the cut-off percentile for admission to NEET super-speciality courses, saying doctors have to deal with patient's life and merit cannot be disregarded.
CUET is given an important place in the new education policy and steps are being taken at various levels.
The Union Health Ministry clarified that the NEET PG 2022 has not been postponed, adding that a letter being circulated in this regard is fake
The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) wrote to Mansukh Mandaviya, requesting him postpone NEET PG 2022 scheduled for May 21.
Alagiri said Congress will protest outside the Raj Bhavan on April 28 demanding that the Governor send the NEET exemption bill passed by the state legislative assembly to the President for his assent
The Dalit outfit Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and Dravida Kazhagam (DK) activists along with the CPI and CPI-M workers staged a black flag demonstration against Tamil Nadu Governor
He said that there were speculations in the media that the Governor was about to forward the bill to the President
Tamil Nadu industries minister Thangam Thennarasu said that while the Governor had to give his approval to the bill, he informed them it was still under his consideration
It added that the alternative prayer for inclusion of Covid duties would also involve the court to micro-manage the curriculum
The top court clarified that those candidates, who have joined in round 2 of state quota, will not be eligible to participate for fresh mop-up round.
The apex court is hearing petitions filed by a group of doctors seeking to participate in mop-up round of NEET-PG 2021-22 counselling
According to latest estimates, while the number of NEET applications has risen from 1.33 million in 2018 to roughly 1.6 million in 2021, the number of MBBS seats available is just over 88,000.
The decision has been taken to prevent "wastage of seats"