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Coaching institutes only engaged in collecting money: Rajasthan minister

Pratap Singh Khachariyawas also took a dig at the coaching instuitutes in the state and said, the coaching operators of Rajasthan are very wealthy but they cannot harass children on the basis of money

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2 NEET aspirants commit suicide in a day in Rajasthan's Kota, 22 this year

Within four hours, two NEET aspirants allegedly committed suicide in two separate incidents in Rajasthan's Kota on Sunday, taking the total toll to 22 this year, police said. Avishkar Shambaji Kasle (17), jumped from the sixth floor of his coaching institute's building in Jawahar Nagar at around 3.15 pm, minutes after walking out of a room on the third floor of the institute after taking a test, they added. The institute's staff rushed Kasle to a hospital but he succumbed on the way, Vigyan Nagar Circle Officer (CO) Dharmveer Singh said. Four hours after Kasle's death, 18-year-old Adarsh Raj, who was also preparing for the competitive exam, hanged himself in his rented flat in under Kunhadi police station area at around 7 pm, police said. When the teen's sister and cousin brother reached the flat around 7.30, they broke open his room, which was locked from the inside, and found Raj hanging from the ceiling, Circle Officer (Kunhadi) KS Rathore said Raj was reportedly breathing when

DMK is responsible: TN BJP chief Annamalai over suicide by NEET aspirants

The AIADMK also accused the state government of indulging in petty politics claiming that the state had refused to provide adequate security for the AIADMK state conference in Madurai

Among state exam boards, highest number of NEET-UG applicants from Maha

The highest number of applications for medical exam NEET-UG in the last five years from among state boards was from Maharashtra, according to the National Testing Agency (NTA). The Karnataka state board is at the second spot followed by Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh in terms of applicants. This year, more than 20.38 lakh candidates had appeared for NEET. It was 14.10 lakh in 2019. The highest number of candidates appearing for the biggest entrance exam in the country from 2019-2023 were from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), according to data accessed by PTI. This year, more than 5.51 lakh applicants were from the board that conducts Class 12 exams at the national level. However, among state boards, Maharashtra tops the chart in terms of applications for NEET-UG or the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Under-Graduate). This year, more than 2.57 lakh candidates from the Maharashtra state board applied for the exam. Last year, more than 2.31 lakh candidates had ..

Face life with self-confidence: CM Stalin to youth after Neet suicides

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday passionately appealed to National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) aspirants not to harbour any suicidal tendencies but face life with self-confidence. He claimed that in a few months, when "political change takes place", then the barriers erected by NEET will come crashing down. "Then, all those who say 'I will not sign' will disappear," the Chief Minister said referring to the alleged remark on the Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution on NEET exemption made by Governor R N Ravi. "I offer my deepest condolences on the demise of student Jagatheeswaran and his father Selvasekhar. Let their deaths be the last on the altar of NEET," Stalin said in a statement here.

Registration for round 1 of NEET UG Counselling 2023 to end tomorrow

MCC is about to close the registration for Round 1 of NEET UG 2023 Counselling tomorrow. Interested candidates can visit the official website for registration, i.e., mcc.nic.in/ug-medical-counselling

MBBS aspirants can now upgrade college seats till third counselling round

The earlier policy, known as the mop-up round, was in practice for five years and has now been withdrawn to give benefit to students of the third round

Candidates from 9 states corner 70% medical college seats; Rajasthan tops

Admissions for homoeopathic and Unani medicines are also based on NEET-UG scores

NEET UG is only the first hurdle in a long race for aspiring doctors

Bitter pills: High cost of studying medicine, timing of NEET PG, skewed student-teacher ratio, uncertainty over NExT

NEET 2023: Maximum qualifying candidates are from UP followed by Maha

Tamil Nadu's Prabanjan J and Andhra Pradesh's Bora Varun Chakravarthi have topped the medical entrance exam NEET-UG this year with 99.99 percentile scores, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Tuesday. A total of 11.45 lakh candidates out of 20.38 lakh have qualified the exam. Among the states, Uttar Pradesh has highest number of qualifying candidates (1.39 lakh) followed by Maharashtra (1.31 lakh) and Rajasthan (over 1 lakh). Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are the two most populous states in the country while Rajasthan also figures in the top ten in terms of population. The NTA conducted the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (UG) at 4,097 centres located in 499 cities throughout the country including 14 cities outside India on May 7. "Seven candidates were identified using unfair practices in the examination and have been dealt with as per the norms," a senior NTA official said. The examination was conducted in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hi

NEET UG Result 2023: Everything you need to know at the official website

The Agency will also release the category-by-category cutoff scores, percentile ranks, names of all India's toppers, and merit list in relation to the NEET UG Result 2023

Manipur NEET-UG to be held between June 3-5; CUET-UG from June 5-8

Medical entrance exam NEET-UG which was postponed in Manipur in view of the law-and-order situation will now be conducted on any date between June 3 to 5, National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Friday. CUET-UG will be conducted in the state from June 5 to 8 and the postgraduate entrance test CUET-PG from June 5 to 17, the NTA also said. "NTA has carefully reviewed the law-and-order situation in consultation with the state administration of Manipur and the state government has decided to offer exam centre to the candidates for NEET-UG, CUET-UG and CUET-PG," said Sadhana Parashar, senior director of NTA. "The option to change the city for examination is also available to those candidates in Manipur who have not appeared or missed NEET-UG, CUET-UG due to the law-and- order situation, irrespective whether they had downloaded their admit cards or not for these examinations," she added. Manipur has witnessed violence over a move to grant scheduled tribe status to the majority Metei

No incident of insensitive frisking happened at NEET-UG exam centres: NTA

No untoward incident of insensitive frisking happened at NEET-UG exam centres in Chennai, Kolkata, and Mumbai, according to the National Testing Agency. An internal inquiry by the NTA found that the allegations being made in certain media reports and social media posts are "untrue". The medical entrance exam NEET was conducted on Sunday at more than 4,000 centres. According to the NTA report, in the Hooghly incident, a male candidate came in cargo trousers and formal covered boots against the dress code. NTA officials also said that they had cross-checked with video footage and some of the claims were from the previous years' test. According to media reports, in a centre in Sangli in Mumbai, female candidates were frisked in the open or were forced to change their clothes before taking the exam. "The internal inquiry found that the allegations coming from Sangli are also not true during frisking by a female attendant in a closed room designated for girls, there was a beep by the

Do's & Donts for NEET UG 2023 exam today: Here's all you need to know

The exam will start at 2 PM and will end at 5:30 PM (IST)

NEET UG 2023: Admit card, exam city slip likely today on neet.nta.nic.in

Candidates can download the exam city slip and admit card from the NTA's official website, neet.nta.nic.in, once they are released

Record 2.87 mn applications for NEET this year, 1.2 mn female candidates

A record 20.87 lakh registrations have been received for medical entrance exam NEET-UG this year, including nearly 12 lakh female candidates, according to officials. The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) is the largest entrance exam in the country, followed by CUET-UG. According to registration statistics, 20.87 lakh candidates have applied for the crucial exam, over 2.57 lakh more than last year. The gender gap too breached the two lakh-mark with 11.8 lakh female candidates registering, which is 2.8 lakh more than male candidates. The number of male candidates is 9.02 lakh. The exam will be held on May 7. The maximum registrations are from Maharashthra, followed by Uttar Pradesh NEET-UG is the qualifying entrance exam for admission to Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine, and Surgery (BAMS), Bachelor of Siddha Medicine and Surgery (BSMS), Bachelor of Unani Medicine and .

Delhi HC asks Centre to take decision on filling up MBBS seats for PWDs

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to take a policy decision on a representation to fill up the vacant seats reserved in medical colleges for those suffering from benchmark disability by taking in candidates who fall short of the threshold but are persons with disabilities (PWD). A bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma also asked the Centre to respond to a petition filed by an MBBS aspirant having less than benchmark disability who sought admission in a medical college against one of the unfilled seats reserved for PWD. The petitioner, who has a permanent locomotor disability, scored 96.06 percentile in NEET-UG 2022 and was found to be short of the 40 per cent threshold prescribed for a benchmark disability a precondition for claiming reservation in education. The petitioner said it will be unfair to grant a seat earmarked for candidates with benchmark disabilities to a candidate without any disability by converting them into general category seats. UOI

CUET 2023 will be held from May 21 to 31, NEET-UG on May 7, says NTA

The National Testing Agency on Friday said medical entrance examination NEET-UG will be conducted on May 7, 2023. The second edition of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET) will be conducted from May 21 to 31, 2023, it announced. "The schedule for all crucial exams has been announced this year in advance," a senior NTA official added. On Thursday, the agency said engineering entrance exam JEE-Main would be conducted from January 24 to 31, except on Republic Day. The second session of the exam will be held in April and applications for the exam will be accepted from December 15 to January 12, it added.

67% increase in medical colleges, 87% in MBBS seats, says MoS Health

There is an increase of 875 in MBBS seats from 51,348 before 2014 to 96,077 as of now and increase of 105% in PG seats from 31,185 before 2014 to 64,059 as of now