New Delhi: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has rejected the proposal received from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME), Katra, seeking to place 100 percent of its ...

J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah slammed the BJP over admissions at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Medical Institute, warning, “Don’t blame Muslims tomorrow, accuse them of being communal or sectarian.” He ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday questioned the use of religion as a criterion for student admissions at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence. His ...

SRINAGAR: The controversy over MBBS admissions at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district intensified on Wednesday, with the Vaishno ...

Right-wing groups have claimed that the institute runs with the donations of Hindu devotees.The BJP backed the call to reserve MBBS quota of 50 seats at the institute for Hindus only. This article ...

SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah strongly criticized the objection raised by the JK Assembly’s Leader of the Opposition regarding the admission of students from a specific community to the Shri ...

BJP leaders, led by Leader of Opposition (LoP) Sunil Shama, recently met Lt Governor Manoj Sinha asking him to revoke the admission list. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has defended ...

SRINAGAR: The National Medical Commission has rejected a proposal by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence to place all its MBBS seats under the All India Quota counselling system ...

The tussle comes days after the institute, funded by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB), announced the first admission list featuring 42 Muslim students for its 50 MBBS seats A political ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has defended the admission of Muslim students to Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College and said merit, not religion, must be followed by the college. The BJP ...

SRINAGAR: BJP, VHP and Bajrang Dal have objected to admissions of Muslim students, mostly from Kashmir, to Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College in Katra after freshers from the community formed the bulk ...

Jammu, Nov 25: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday asked BJP leader Sunil Sharma to push for declaring Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME) a minority ...