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 […]

After the 6-day long raids on Kota’s biggest coaching institute, Allen Career Institute, the Income Tax (IT) department has identified around Rs 100 crore of undisclosed income. The IT department concluded its raids on Allen Career Institute on Tuesday late night. IT department sources informed that the IT teams have detected undisclosed income of around […]

Walking along Buffalo Bayou, Prateek Chouda (31) often dreamt of coming back to India and becoming a doctor. Having gone to the US in 2009 to pursue his Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Prateek secretly harboured a desire to pursue medicine over engineering but never got to it. He finished his Masters and even joined […]

The Supreme Court of India last year notified that NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) will be mandatory for admission in MBBS/BDS courses across the country. After the order, many NRI (Non- Resident Indians) and PIO (Person of Indian Origin) aspirants lost their medical seats as their selection was done through board marks. The notification […]

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has recently notified to allow persecuted migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh settled in India to take NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) 2017. The announcement means the removal of exception for refugees to take up medical entrance test, which was the norm till last year. Migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh […]

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has notified about the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) Undergraduate 2017 on January 31. This year foreign national aspirants need to take NEET, according to Supreme Court orders passed last year. PaGaLGuY provides a list of points that NRI (Non-Resident Indian), OCI (Overseas Citizen of India), POI […]

The notification issued by CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) on January 31, put an upper age limit of 25 years of age for aspirants who can take NEET 2017. Ever since the notification was released, there were widespread protests and demonstrations held against the decision across the country. Putting an upper age limit of […]

Medical aspirants across the country are protesting against the upper age limit set by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for 85% state quota seats. Aspirants have taken to microblogging website, Twitter, to spread the news about ongoing protests across the country. The tweets, targeting the government for its sudden implementation of upper age […]

Medical aspirants across the country are protesting against CBSE’s (Central Board of Secondary Education) announcement of an upper age limit in state quota MBBS / BDS seats. In its notification released on January 31, CBSE mentioned that for counselling of all the medical seats in the country, there will be an upper age limit of […]

Although, with the intervention of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) announced that NEET 2017 will be considered as first attempt for students, there are still protests ongoing in various parts of the country. Protesting aspirants are demanding the removal of the upper age limit from the […]