Bihar cabinet allows in-service doctors to opt for Diplomate of National Board coursesThe Bihar cabinet has approved a proposal to allow in-service doctors to opt for Diplomate of National Board (DNB) courses run by the Natio...
22 Aug, 2023, 06.32 PM IST
MBBS seats in India increase 110 per cent since 2014, Centre tells Lok SabhaThe number of medical colleges in India has increased by 82%, from 387 before 2014 to 704 currently, with corresponding growth in the numbe...
28 Jul, 2023, 02.53 PM IST
Medical seats from Centre’s quota for Jammu & Kashmir terror victimsThe Centre has reserved medical seats this year in government-run colleges across the country for children maimed by terrorism in J&K or wh...
09 Nov, 2022, 02.26 PM IST
India's doctor-population ratio of 1:854 better than WHO standard of 1:1000: MoS tells LS"Assuming 80 per cent availability of registered allopathic doctors and 5.65 lakh AYUSH doctors, the doctor-population ratio in the country...
22 Jul, 2022, 09.04 PM IST
For a developed India, we need a healthy India: MandaviyaPresiding over the 21st convocation of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) at Dr Ambedkar International Centre h...
20 Jun, 2022, 06.52 PM IST
NEET PG exam not postponed, will happen on May 21, PIB says after 'fake' NBEMS noticeThis comes after a section of the media reported that NEET PG exam this year was postponed to July 9.
07 May, 2022, 04.41 PM IST
Government keen to expand Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana: VK Paul“The central government is willing to increase its ambit. PM JAY is here to stay and it is the main vehicle for secondary and tertiary care...
20 Oct, 2021, 04.32 PM IST
Covid duty isn’t risky, exams are? Careers put on hold, medical students question govt’s logicStudents said their careers have been put on hold and their training periods have been extended indefinitely citing Covid cases even as ele...
12 May, 2021, 10.31 AM IST
Hospitals get PG seats but can’t meet standardsthere have been several cases of hospitals shutting shop or DNB (Diplomate of National Board) programmes having to be shut down for not com...
11 May, 2019, 11.22 AM IST
NITI Aayog pitches for enactment of National Medical Commission BillAccording to the report, as of March 2017, there were 10.23 lakh allopathic doctors registered with the MCI or state medical councils.
23 Dec, 2018, 12.41 PM IST
Pakistan new President Arif Alvi is son of Nehru's dentistAlvi, a close ally of PM Imran Khan and one of the founding members of the PTI party, was elected as the new President of Pakistan Tuesday.
05 Sep, 2018, 10.37 AM IST
Indian men tackling baldness as early as in their 20sDoctors Arika Bansal and Pradeep Sethi of Eugenix Hair Sciences are putting the country on the map with their hair transplant technique.
10 Jul, 2018, 02.57 PM IST
Why some vested interests have created a fog around National Medical Commission BillNational Medical Commission Bill makes a conscious effort to bring the best in the profession to the centre stage of regulation.
06 Feb, 2018, 07.25 AM IST
Centre approves 4,000 PG seats in medical colleges, hospitalsTerming it an "all time record number", Nadda said with this addition, the total number of Post Graduate (PG) seats available in the countr...
02 Mar, 2017, 11.47 PM IST
Health budget hiked by 28%; 5,000 PG seats to be createdGovt also announced setting up of two more AIIMS in Jharkhand and Gujarat and asserted that it has prepared an action plan to eliminate kal...
01 Feb, 2017, 07.57 PM IST
Pilot project on tele-medicine in Melghat district soonMaharashtra government is planning to roll out 'a telemedicine service' in the remote areas which do not have enough healthcare facilities.
29 Dec, 2014, 09.04 PM IST
- New MCI rule bars 6000 doctors from teaching
It also disqualifies another 3,000-odd doctors, who are pursuing senior residency from teaching, said an official.
10 Apr, 2011, 10.38 AM IST