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After flip flops on NExT, NMC now seeks public feedback on the medical test’s feasibility

National Medical Commission has asked students, faculty and institutions whether a single test can replace final year MBBS exams & entrance test for PG seats in medical colleges.

NExT for 2020 MBBS batch: Health Ministry urges NMC to issue new notification, fix ‘discrepancies’

The government has asked the NMC to defer the National Exit Test from 2024 to 2025 in the wake of protests from 2019-batch MBBS students.

The Lodha committee’s final report on medical education is a story of unfulfilled goals

The Supreme Court-appointed committee’s exit report lays bare a year of bitter turf war with the government regulator. APURVA VISHWANATH

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.