The government managed to pass the amended triple talaq bill in the Lok Sabha but failed to push it through in the Rajya Sabha owing to stiff resistance by Opposition parties. In the Upper House, the NDA government is in a minority. read more

Union health minister JP Nadda, while presenting the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill in the House, said it superseded MCI, the powers of which have now been vested in a BoG. read more

The Aayog said the quality of health professional training and adherence to standards is sub-optimal, including in the private sector. read more

The move comes after the medical education regulator, the Medical Council of India (MCI), raised questions over some appointments in the medical colleges. read more

The SC had on December 12, 2017 ratified the stand of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and ruled that laboratory report could be countersigned only by a registered medical practitioner with a postgraduate qualification in pathology. read more

The medical education department has decided to constitute societies to conduct recruitment test to expedite the appointment of teachers in five new medical colleges. read more

The last date to register is November 22. The examination will be conducted on January 6, 2019 and the result will be declared on January 31. read more

Creating a separate and independent corpus for college assessment aims at ensuring complete transparency, in the wake of controversies about a strong nexus between the Medical Council of India and private medical colleges over issue of licences. Amid... read more

The Board of Governors has been appointed for one year, and will be the sole decision-making body till the NMC Bill, 2017 is cleared in Parliament read more

Arun Jaitley said professionals of great eminence will be part of the committee. read more

As per the order, MCI shall convene a meeting with Nilekani and Sibal within a period of 15 days. Any lawyer who is associated with the matter can also attend the meeting to be chaired by Kapil Sibal. read more

Niti Aayog vice-chairman was citing the pending bill on National Medical Commission (NMC), which is expected to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI), as a case in point. read more

At Banaras Hindu University, the hub for Ayurveda medicine, vaids are trained to perform routine surgeries. read more

Colleges running for at least 15 years with a post graduate programme for 10 years, and have had their post graduate licence valid for five years renewed at least once, can apply for increasing seats. read more

The installation of cameras will be done in phases, and is expected to be completed in all 497 colleges by the year-end. The footage will be tracked real-time from a monitoring cell in Delhi. read more