Morning Digest | September 17, 2022

Morning Digest | September 17, 2022

SCO members should give each other full transit rights: PM Modi Better regional connectivity is only possible if members grant each other “full transit rights”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, referring to Pakistan’s refusal to give India transit trade access by land to Afghanistan and Central Asia, at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation […]

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NMC allows Indian students from Ukrainian universities to complete medical education in other countries

NMC allows Indian students from Ukrainian universities to complete medical education in other countries

Indian medical students who had returned from war-torn Ukraine will now be allowed to relocate to universities in other countries and complete their studies. Considering the special circumstances, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has agreed to recognise the academic mobility programme offered by Ukraine to allow such students to complete their education as the degree […]

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As war rages, evacuated Indian students consider opting out of Ukrainian universities

As war rages, evacuated Indian students consider opting out of Ukrainian universities

In the four months after his evacuation from war-torn Kharkiv in Ukraine in February, Omkar Venkatchari, a third-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, took online classes and wrote his end-semester exams. He is also currently preparing for KROK-1, Ukraine’s qualifying medical examination. But war draws on and going back seems highly unlikely. […]

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