NMC may allow Indian medical students from Ukraine, China to sit for screening test

NMC may allow Indian medical students from Ukraine, China to sit for screening test

The Country’s apex medical education regulator has proposed that final year medical students from China and Ukraine who were not able to complete their practical training due to the pandemic or the war be allowed to sit for the Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) – a screening test which foreign medical students have to clear […]

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Russia-Ukraine live updates | EU chief promises a signal on Ukraine’s bid next week

Russia-Ukraine live updates | EU chief promises a signal on Ukraine’s bid next week

Ukrainian and British officials warned on June 11 that Russian forces are relying on weapons able to cause mass casualties as they try to make headway in capturing eastern Ukraine and fierce, prolonged fighting depletes resources on both sides. Meanwhile, Ukraine pleaded to Western countries for faster deliveries of weapons as better-armed Russian forces pounded […]

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Russia-Ukraine live updates | Biden says US will provide advanced rocket systems to Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine live updates | Biden says US will provide advanced rocket systems to Ukraine

Russian forces in a “frenzied push” have seized half of Sievierodonetsk, the eastern Ukrainian city that is key to Moscow’s efforts to complete the capture of the industrial Donbas region, the mayor said on May 31. “The city is essentially being destroyed ruthlessly block by block,” Oleksandr Striuk said. He said heavy street fighting continued […]

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Centre in talks with Hungary to admit Indian students: Jaishankar

Centre in talks with Hungary to admit Indian students: Jaishankar

The Union government has been “concerned” about the education of Indian medical students who fled the war-torn Ukraine following the Russian invasion, Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar said in Vadodara Monday. “We are talking to other nations around Ukraine in order to work out a solution so that Indian students can continue their […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle

Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle

Russian forces stepped up their assault on the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on May 28 after claiming to have captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman, as Kyiv intensified its calls for longer-range weaponry from the West to help it fight back in the Donbas region. Slow, solid Russian gains in recent days point to […]

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Russia-Ukraine live updates | Ukraine says troops may retreat from eastern region as Russia advances

Russia-Ukraine live updates | Ukraine says troops may retreat from eastern region as Russia advances

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnkyy spoke defiantly on May 27 in two speeches about his country’s ultimate victory over Russian forces in both the most pressing battle in eastern Ukraine and the war, generally. “Ukraine is a country that has destroyed the myth about the extraordinary power of the Russian army – an army that supposedly, […]

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Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol’s ruins

Russia-Ukraine crisis live updates | 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol’s ruins

Russian troops advanced in eastern Ukraine on May 24, pounding key cities and aiming “to destroy everything there,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as Moscow signalled it was digging in for a long war against its neighbour. Three months to the day since Russia launched its invasion, Zelensky mourned the thousands of Ukrainian men and women […]

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Ukraine rules out ceasefire as fighting intensifies in Donbas

Ukraine rules out ceasefire as fighting intensifies in Donbas

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland, as Polish President Andrzej Duda prepared to address the Ukrainian parliament on Sunday. After ending weeks of resistance by the last Ukrainian fighters in the strategic southeastern city of Mariupol, […]

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Mariupol forces taken to Russia-held areas

Mariupol forces taken to Russia-held areas

Moscow calls the operation a mass surrender; Ukraine avoids the word, says mission was completed Moscow calls the operation a mass surrender; Ukraine avoids the word, says mission was completed Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters, including wounded men carried out on stretchers, left the vast steel plant in Mariupol where they mounted a dogged last stand […]

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