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National Exit Test for MBBS students from next May, announces NMC

National Medical Commission planned exam this year, but it was shifted to next year at behest of health ministry. Licence to practise medicine will be allowed after clearing NExT 1 & 2.

NMC bars 38 medical colleges from admitting MBBS students this year over ‘administrative lapses’

Among the colleges barred are many govt institutes, including Chennai’s Stanley Medical College, Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Puducherry, and Assam Medical College.

‘NEET not an option’ — Medical students back from Ukraine seek road map from NMC to resume course

National Medical Commission yet to announce decision on accommodating Ukraine returnees in Indian medical colleges. Students & parents protested outside regulator's office Tuesday.

Indian healthcare needs foreign medical graduates. Draft rules do just the opposite

National Medical Commission’s overtly stringent draft regulations will end up creating a new set of barriers for graduates who have done MBBS in foreign universities.

Critics of Modi govt’s medical education reform Act are missing these 3 points

The heavily criticised provisions of NMC Act can have a direct impact on other professional education domains if the reform model is applied to them.

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Feudals prevent SC/ST, minorities, women from voting: Rajiv Gandhi on electoral reforms

On 15 December 1988, PM Rajiv Gandhi spoke in the Lok Sabha while introducing comprehensive electoral reforms, including lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, and introducing measures to protect secular values in elections.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.