With less than 11 days to go for the online application of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) to conclude, medical aspirants in Tamil Nadu are in a fix. After the floor test on February 18, 2017, the tumultuous Tamil Nadu political scenario settled Edappadi K. Palanisamy became Chief Minister. Soon after he took charge, […]

Former Chief Justice of India, Altamas Kabir, died on Sunday, February 19, at a private hospital in Kolkata after fighting a prolonged illness. Kabir was born on July 19, 1948 in Kolkata and was part of the Calcutta High Court as a judge from 1990. In the year 2005, he was elevated as Chief Justice […]

The Ministry of AYUSH (Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) has made it clear that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be the single entrance test. Based on the ranks of the candidates, they will be allotted to 544 colleges across the country offering 32,256 seats in the AYUSH […]

(Justice R Banumathi & Justice Dipak Misra) After the High Courts in Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Allahabad ordered the Centre and the MCI (Medical Council of India) to come up with descriptive affidavits on imposing upper age limit in NEET 2017, the Supreme Court toady ordered a clarification from the bodies as well. Terming the […]

In a recent development to the ongoing resistance across the country against the upper age limit introduced to NEET 2017, the Allahabad High Court in a judgment on February 15 asked the Medical Council of India (MCI), Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Centre to clarify about the imposed limit. Hearing the petition […]

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy informed today that he has requested the centre to exempt Puducherry from NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test). According to media reports, he said that he has written a letter to the centre, pleading about exempting Puducherry from the ambit of NEET. The Supreme Court made NEET mandatory for admission […]

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has notified medical aspirants from Jammu & Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, who have wrongly submitted the ‘undertaking’, that their candidature for 100% seats of their states will not be affected. The notification states that if they have signed the self-declaration and are from one of the three states, […]

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG (under-graduate) aspirants in Kashmir have found themselves in an unwanted situation. By mistake, these aspirants signed a declaration under which they are neither eligible for admission to state colleges nor the 15% all India quota seats. They made this mistake while filling the online admission forms for […]

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is conducting the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test – Under-Graduate (NEET-UG) 2017, the last date for which is March 1, 2017. NEET, for admission to under-graduate courses, will be held on May 7, 2017. Students have been finding it difficult to manoeuvre through the website, making them anxious as […]

Recently, in the second week of January 2017, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) proposed that engineering students should take an exit test after completing their course. According to Aspiring Minds National Employability Report – Engineers 2016, only a total of 19.91% engineers get employed. The exit test for graduating engineers will assess […]