Bengal, Odisha failed to act against illegal NRI quota admissions in pvt medical colleges: EDThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) revealed that West Bengal and Odisha authorities neglected to act on fraudulent NRI quota admissions in pr...
07 Jul, 2025, 07.08 PM IST
ED raids multiple locations in West Bengal over NRI quota medical admission scamThe Enforcement Directorate conducted raids in West Bengal related to irregularities in medical admissions under the NRI quota. The raids w...
03 Dec, 2024, 10.38 PM IST
ED raids in Bengal over irregularities in NRI quota medical admissionsEnforcement Directorate (ED) officials conducted simultaneous raids at several medical colleges, hospitals, and residences in West Bengal o...
03 Dec, 2024, 12.56 PM IST
"This fraud must end," Supreme Court rejects Punjab's NRI quota pleaThe Supreme Court has dismissed Punjab's plea to expand the NRI quota in medical colleges, emphasizing that distant relatives of NRIs shoul...
24 Sep, 2024, 12.42 PM IST
For NRI quota in government medical colleges, Karnataka govt wants 500 additional MBBS seatsThe Karnataka government has urged the Centre to approve extra MBBS seats in autonomous government medical colleges under the Department of...
30 Jun, 2024, 08.14 PM IST
After SC's order, Deemed universities abolish NRI quota, move seats to open categorySeveral medical institutions have scrapped the NRI (non-resident Indian) quota and reduced the number of seats available in the NRI categor...
27 Jul, 2023, 04.28 PM IST
NEET tail-enders jump queue, grab med seatsMBBS aspirants who missed out in the initial rounds of seat allotment and pinned their hopes on vacant NRI quota seats have been bested by ...
27 Mar, 2022, 10.50 AM IST
Relax rules for medical students returning from Ukraine: Varun GandhiThere are over 20,000 Indian students who are in the process of being evacuated from Ukraine. For many of them, an education stint in Ukrai...
06 Mar, 2022, 11.49 AM IST
Quota for the rich? 28% of MBBS seats cost over Rs 10 lakh per year in tuition feesHow did we get to this 28%? It’s based on a detailed analysis of fees for the MBBS course in over 530 MBBS colleges. About half the seats i...
07 Mar, 2021, 06.02 PM IST
Money, not quota, dilutes merit in medical admissionsThe average NEET score of students in government-controlled seats was 448 out of 720, while the quotas under private control averaged just ...
11 Jun, 2018, 10.49 AM IST
Black money quota: 25,000 MBBS, PG seats at Rs 12,000 croreConsortia of privately managed colleges and deemed universities that run medical colleges claim to conduct their own entrance examinations.
30 Jan, 2016, 12.34 PM IST
SC seeks MP govt's response on PILs for CBI probe in DMATThe Supreme Court today asked the Madhya Pradesh government to apprise it of its views on pleas seeking CBI probe into alleged irregulariti...
14 Aug, 2015, 07.06 PM IST
Rs 9,300 crore black money changes hands in medical seat sale every yearBack-of-the-envelope calculations show that the 'sale' of MBBS and post graduate seats in medical colleges rakes in about Rs 10,000 crore.
18 Dec, 2014, 12.22 PM IST
10% NRI quota in new housing, investment policy: Punjab governmentPunjab government today said 10 per cent quota has been fixed for NRI's in state's new housing and investment policy.
14 May, 2013, 08.18 PM IST
Punjab announces 10 per cent housing quota for NRIsThe Punjab government today said under the proposed industrial investment and the real-estate policy, 10 per cent quota will be reserved fo...
05 Apr, 2013, 11.02 PM IST
- Private varsities agree to quota
'Unaided' deemed universities have agreed to extend SC/ST and OBC quotas in these institutions.
27 Oct, 2006, 03.21 AM IST
- NRI-sponsored seats in engg colleges abolished
The human resource development ministry has decided to abolish NRI-sponsored category in all private engineering colleges across the countr...
14 Jun, 2002, 03.48 AM IST