Tag: Neet

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has moved the Supreme Court against the order of the Madras High Court granting grace marks to those who wrote this year’s NEET exam in Tamil. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court had on July 10, while hearing the petitioner of senior CPI (M) […]

The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu has been accused of making false promises to the electorate that the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) would be cancelled, despite knowing the fact that AIADMK government had to conduct the examinations on the basis of the Supreme Court order.

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: In what could be a relief for lakhs of students across India, the Supreme Court today directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) not to make Aadhaar number mandatory for enrollment of students appearing in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2018 and other all-India exams. A five-judge Constitution bench headed […]

New Delhi: Healthcare services at many private hospitals in the country are likely to be hit tomorrow as the  Indian Medical Association  has called for suspending routine services for 12 hours to protest a Bill seeking to replace the  Medical Council of India (MCI) with a new body. Services at outpatient departments (OPDs) of many private […]

New Delhi: Hitting out at the Modi government over the suicide of a Dalit medical aspirant in Tamil Nadu, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today sought to know how was the Centre planning to “impose” NEET examinations without taking states on board. 17-year-old Anitha, daughter of a daily wage earner, allegedly hanged herself at her […]

Bhubaneswar: Blaming Odisha government for not facilitating local students to appear for the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) in their mother tongue, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today appealed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to reconsider its decision. “In the larger interest of the students of the state I request you to reconsider […]

New Delhi: In a major announcement, the Supreme Court has allowed undergraduate medical students of age 25 or above to appear for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). The SC bench, however, said that their admission will be subjected to the final outcome of the case on validity of CBSE’s decision to fix the upper […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday declared the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as Constitutionally valid and said that it empowers the marginalised sections of the society. The apex court’s five-judge Constitution bench said Aadhaar means unique and it is better to be unique than being best. The Supreme Court ruled that the Aadhaar card is […]

New Delhi: In a major development, upholding the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar, the Supreme Court said that Aadhaar must not be made compulsory for school admissions and the school administration too, cannot make it mandatory. The Supreme Court also observed that Aadhaar is not mandatory for UGC, NEET & CBSE examinations. The biometric data shall […]

New Delhi: The Centre would be taking affidavits from state governments on accuracy of translated NEET question papers from the next year, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday. The National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education for admission to MBBS/BDS courses. Javadekar was responding to an […]

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is contemplating to move the Supreme Court against an order by the Madras High Court granting grace marks to those who wrote this year’s NEET exam in Tamil, sources in the HRD Ministry said on Monday. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court had on […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar during a press meet today informed that National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET), Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), UGC NET, National Eligibility Test (NET) and CMAT exams currently being organised by CBSE will be conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) from now on. Students can appear for NEET twice a […]

Bhubaneswar: Apart from unleashing copious rain and windstorm gusting up to 200 kmph that blew away thatched roofs of houses, swamped towns and villages, cyclone Fani, which made landfall near Puri on Friday has also adversely affected the education sector in the State. In the wake of utter destruction by the extremely severe cyclonic storm […]

New Delhi: The Health Ministry in consultation with the Board of Governors, Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided to reduce the qualifying percentile in respect of NEET-PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for the year 2019-20 by 6 percentile, an official release said on Tuesday. “Now general category candidates with minimum marks at 44 percentile, […]

Rourkela: The Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) has postponed semester examinations which were slated to be held on May 20 owing to clash of dates with NEET 2019 exams in Odisha. This has been informed by Examinations Director of BPUT, Deepak Kumar Sahoo. According to a notification issued by Sahoo, the semester (regular and […]