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NOTICE – CET CENTRALIZED COUNSELING –2012 ADMISSION SESSION - SECOND ROUND The schedule for allocation of vacant seats of DNB Broad Specialty (Primary) & Direct 6 years DNB Super Specialty courses in second round of counseling for Jan 2012 admission session has been notified. Applicant candidates may kindly download their rank letter by the following link: Click here for Rank letter – Second Round Kindly check the availability of DNB seats at NBE website before reporting to counseling venue on assigned date & time. CET Merit Based Centralized Counselling (Second Round) will be held in New Delhi only, at National Board of Examinations office, PSP Area, Sector – 9, Dwarka (Landmark: Opp. District Court, Dwarka, Delhi) as per prescribed schedule. Candidates are required to make their own arrangement for stay. No TA/DA shall be given by NBE to attend the counselling.  Candidates are required to bring their RANK LETTER (Second Round) at the time of counseling along...

· NBE shall be conducting Centralized Merit Based Counseling for admission to DNB Courses for July 2012 admission session in September 2012. · Seat matrix indicating DNB Primary seats for July 2012 admission session has been compiled and is placed on NBE website. · The indicative seat matrix published herewith is purely PROVISIONAL. · Applicants may note that the number of seats available is subject to decisions taken by National Board of Examinations from time to time. · Final Seat matrix shall be published prior to the counseling. · The detailed schedule & guidelines for the counseling shall be notified in due course. Click here for Indicative list of DNB Primary Seats – July 2012 admission session

National Board of Examinations, New Delhi Dated: May 28th, 2012 Kind Attn: Applicant Candidates for DNB CET July 2012 – Schedule of Examination Notified • NBE shall be conducting DNB CET from 9th August 2012 to 17th August 2012 (Except on 15th August) at various centres in following cities: SL. NO. CITY 1. Bangalore 2. Ahmedabad 3. Mumbai 4. Nagpur 5. Kolkata 6. Delhi & NCR 7. Hyderabad 8. Chennai 9. Trivandrum 10. Chandigarh 11. Pune • CET shall be conducted on Computer Based Platform. • Each candidate will be informed about his/her scheduled date of examination and examination centre through admit card and NBE website www.natboard.edu.in Following changes to be noted: Exam is in August in place of June. This time it is Computer Based Mode, and extended over 7 days. Candidates will get their date of exam and center with the admit card which will be sent by natboard in d...

Fifty years after khesari dal (Lathyrus sativus) was banned for sale, the Central government will conduct an epidemiological study of the high-protein legume that can be grown in extreme weather conditions. Khesari dal, also known as Grass pea, was banned for consumption in 1961 as it was believed that Beta-N-Oxalyl-aminoalanine, a neurotoxic amino-acid in the legume, caused neurolathyrim or a paralysis of the lower limbs. It is cultivated extensively in central and western India for cattle fodder. Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and West Bengal are the only States where the sale for human consumption was not banned. Khesari dal is also cheaper than other pulses, whose prices have gone up manifold in the past few years. The withdrawal of the ban will help to solve the shortage of pulses, as it is believed that the harmful effects of khesari dal depends on the amount consumed, its toxin content, the method of cooking and the nutritional status of individuals. Furthermore, the amount of neuro...

LUCKNOW: After initiating the legwork for opening an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like institute in Rae Bareilly, the parliamentary constituency of Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Uttar Pradesh has requested New Delhi to open three more such institutes in the state. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, in a letter to union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, has underlined the need for such multi-speciality hospitals in Poorvanchal, Bundelkhand and Ruhelkhand, citing urgency for quality healthcare facilities for the poor in these backward regions. With an AIIMS-like institute coming up in Rae Bareilly, around 75 km from the state capital, the central region will have a second super-speciality hospital after the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Lucknow - while other regions will continue to suffer from lack of proper medicare facilities, the letter points out. Yadav in his letter says that keeping in mind the di...

NEW DELHI: Two months ago, when Ramesh Chauhan was admitted to AIIMS after a stroke, he underwent a special test -health stroke scale – to measure the level of cognitive deficit he had suffered. He was asked to read English tongue-twisters and recognize pictures of cookie jars, among other objects. A UP-based farmer, Chauhan says he flunked the test not only because of the clots in his brain but also on account of the unfamiliar terms and objects he was asked to identify. Spelling relief for lakhs of patients like Chauhan, who are ill at ease with the English language, doctors at AIIMS have developed a Hindi version of the health stroke scale. It uses objects like balloon, lock, spoon, tiger, bus and telephone – relatively easier to identify – to assess the comprehensive abilities of patients. To check their language skills, simple words in Hindi like ‘namaskar’ and ‘mama’ have been added to the scale. Dr Kameshwar Prasad, head of the neurology department, the brain behind the ...

At present there are 41,569 MBBS seats Faced with huge shortage of doctors, the Centre plans to increase the number of medical colleges to have a total of 80,000 MBBS and 45,000 MD seats by 2021. The Union Health Ministry shared its ambitious growth plans with the members of Parliament at a meeting of the consultative committee attached to the ministry. It received a thumbs up from members. India currently has 41569 undergraduate (MBBS) seats and 22194 post graduate seats. Even though there are 7.5 lakh registered doctors, only 5.5 lakh are in active practice. Because of a serious shortage in the number of doctors, the doctor-patient ratio stands at 1: 2000 which the ministry plans to bring down to 1: 1000 by the end of 13th plan period. Eying the 2021 target, the government approved 46 new medical colleges in the last three fiscals – 11 in 2009-10; 14 in 2010-11 and 21 in 2011-12. The trend is likely to continue as the government h...