6 get 350, AP boys top 2 in JEE(M) after tiebreakers

Hemali Chhapia & Yogita Rao TNN

Mumbai: 01.05.2018
The results of the JEE (Main) examination this year were different as each of the top six all-India rankers had scored 350 and the CBSE had to apply several tiebreakers to rank them.

While Andhra Pradesh’s Suraj Krishna Bhogi was eventually declared the topper, K V Hemant Kumar Chodipilli, also from AP, stood second, and Parth Laturia from Maharashtra’s Nanded, who had gone to Kota to prepare for the exam, stood third.

Suraj has set his eyes on IITBombay. Speaking to TOI, between tackling the flood of congratulatory messages, he said, “I am thrilled. I did not follow any particular pattern to prepare for the exam. On an average, I studied for about nine hours a day. It is my perseverance that has paid off as I never got up from my books till I finished a particular topic.” He said he had to cut down on cricket time — his favourite sport — to prepare for the exam.

(Inputs from Shoeb Khan and K Venkat)

Overall cutoff for all categories slips considerably

Hemant’s regime wasn’t too different. His rank, the young boy candidly admitted,came as nosurprise to him. “I studied for five hours every day to prepare for JEE. With immense support from my college faculty members, I managed to score 350 in the exam. Since my parents live in Mumbai, I intend to seek admission at IIT there. My preferred stream is computer science,” Hemant said from his home in Vizag.

Parth had moved to Kota for JEE preparation. “The success in JEE-Main brought me a step closer to achieving my aim of becoming an engineer in computer science,” he said. The son of a doctor couple, Parth chose engineering due to his interest in mathematics. “Everyone expected me to become a doctor but my inclination towards maths pulled me to engineering. I wanted to make my career in applied mathematics,” said an elated Laturia.

Maths wizard Bhaskar Gupta, at all-India rank 7 (345 score), is the Mumbai topper. “I am passionate about maths. I find the subject very easy as ithas notheory,butonly equations,” Bhaskar, whose father is an IITian and mother is a doctor, said.

The overall cutoff for all categories slipped considerably,withthecommon ranklist cutoff dropping from 81to 74.

Around 10,000 more students qualified this year to take the JEE (Advanced), the passport to the Indian Institutes of Technology. A total of 2.3 lakh candidates qualified for the Advanced exam — 1.8 lakh boys and 50,000 girls.

PHARMACISTS SUSPENDED

Dog eats body at Aligarh hospital mortuary, investigation ordered

Anuja.Jaiswal@timesgroup.com

Agra:  01.05.2018

A shocking video of a dog eating a body at the mortuary of the district hospital in Aligarh went viral on social media on Monday, triggering outrage.

The video turned up just a week after photos of stray dogs moving around in the general ward of the Agra women hospital, close to patients and newborn babies were widely shared on social media.

In the video, a stray dog is seen feeding on the body of an unidentified person, which was lying in the mortuary of the hospital.

Aligarh district magistrate (DM) CB Singh has ordered a detailed investigation into the incident. He said, “Two in-charge pharmacists of the mortuary, Prashant Walian and Ravi Dixit, have been suspended. Police have also been asked to identify the policeman who had taken this body to the mortuary. According to procedure, bodies taken by police for post mortem have to be handed over to the in-charge of the mortuary.”

Chief medical officer (CMO) ML Agarwal admitted that the incident was “shocking”, and said that the stray dogs apparently enter the compound from the main gate, as the other side of boundary wall is secure with a pond on the other side.

“The matter is being inquired into in detail and those responsible for this inhuman neglect won’t be spared,” Agarwal added.

The CMO, however, blamed police for the “irresponsible” act. “While the job of the doctors is to conduct the post mortem, police personnel should ensure that bodies are handed over to the mortuary staff in accordance with the procedures. At present, there are two fridges that accommodate four bodies but soon they will be replaced by two new fridges with six compartments,” he said.

Med students denied seats last yr to be considered 
 
Puducherry: 01.05.2018 toi

The Madras high court has directed all private medical colleges and deemed universities in the Union territory of Puducherry to consider admitting 28 students who were selected but denied seats in the last academic year, 2017-18, for the ensuing academic year 2018-19.

Justice S Vaidyanathan said the private colleges and deemed universities must accommodate the students in their respective colleges in the same department (offered last year) if there are any vacancies after the mop-up counselling for 2018-19.

He also directed the centralised admission committee (Centac) and director general of health services, New Delhi to intimate the Medical Council of India about the list of candidates selected for the academic year 2018-19 by including these 28 students. The students must pay the fees applicable for the ensuing academic year. TNN

State medical council to issue notice to 48 docs for misleading it

Pushpa.Narayan@timesgroup.com

Chennai:
The state medical council will issue show-cause notices to 48 doctors asking why action including cancellation of medical licence cannot be initiated against them for misleading the council. These doctors registered themselves as postgraduates in emergency medicine although their degrees weren’t recognised by the Medical Council of India.

“The state council will also initiate an internal inquiry to find out if there was any official nexus involved,” its president Dr K Senthil said. “The council was being administered by a retired judge as there were no elected members. We will find out if anyone within the council helped them,” he said.

If the disciplinary committee finds the doctors guilty, the council may cancel their PG registration or even ban them from practice and council staff may be suspended or dismissed. In addition, the council has put at least 15 more applications for registration on hold until it completes the inquiry.

The doctors hold postgraduate degrees from two deemed universities -- Sree Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute and Vinayaka Mission Medical College – which got letters of permission to start the postgraduate course in emergency medicine with two seats each in 2013 and 2012 respectively.

But 48 postgraduates in accident and emergency medicine registered their degree as just emergency medicine. State medical council officials said the doctors included 40 from Sri Ramachandra University who registered themselves between October and December last year.

“They have all completed their course between 2004-2011. We shouldn’t have registered them but we were misled,” said a senior official in the council. At least 20 of them passed out in 2009, the year when emergency medicine was first recognised as a postgraduate specialty in India.

The MCI became aware of this after a doctor’s body made a complaint based on information sourced from an RTI application.

Boys from TN bag 21st, 27th nationwide JEE Main ranks

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 01.05.2018

While students from the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Telangana dominated the Joint EntranceTest (Main) 2018 topper’s list, those from Tamil Nadu were notably absent from the top 20.

Aniswar Srinivatsa Krishnan, a CBSE student from Chennai secured the 21st rank, scoring 335 of 360 in the national-level test for admission to NITs, IIITs, centrally-funded technical institutes and other leading private educational institutions. Those seeking admission in IITs must clear the next level of tests, JEE (Advanced).

Another city CBSE student R Raghu Raman from Adyar secured the 27th rank at the national level and stood second in Tamil Nadu.

“Overall, performance of candidatesfrom TamilNadu, particularly mediocre students, in this year’s JEE Main was not good as many found the mathematics and chemistry papers tough,” said B Pavan Kumar, director of FIITJEE, a prominent private training centre with centres across the state.

The minimum cutoff required for candidates to appear for JEE Advanced has also dropped significantly for the second time in a row. Candidates belonging to the general category become eligible for the next round only if they scored 100 or above in JEE Main in 2016. This came down to 81 in 2017 and 74 this year.

Similarly cutoffs for Other Backward Caste (Non-Creamy Layer), Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students has come down from 49,32 and27 respectively in 2017 to 45, 29 and 24 respectively this year.

Speaking to TOI, Krishnan, who underwent training at FIITJEE for two years, attributed his high scores to the continuous mock tests he undertook.

Even the state topper found the chemistry paper difficult. “I secured 120 in the other two papers, but lost marks only in Chemistry, as the questions were extremely tricky,” said Krishnan, a student of Devi Academy in Virugambakkam.

Hoping to enter IIT Madrasor IISCBangalore,hesaid that results caught him by surprise as he was expecting a rank of 100 or above.

The other topper, Raman from MaharishiVidhyaMandir said that he underwent special training programs right from Class VI and later attended an integrated course offered by his school in association with FIITJEE.

Of the 2.25 lakh who appeared for JEE Main, nearly 1.11 lakh have been declared eligible for JEE Advanced to be held in May, said an official release from Central Board of Secondary Education which conducted the exam in April. 



Aniswar Srivatsa Krishnan (top) and R Raghu Raman

Govt calls for applications for PG med courses

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 01.05.2018

After the National Boardof Examination (NBE) announced a revised cutoff for admission to PG courses, thestateselection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan has called for eligible students, who have not yet applied, to submit their applications by May 3.

The revised percentile eligible candidates must have scored for admission to government medical colleges, state quota of self-financing colleges and Annamalai university general category is between 262 and 320, between 223 and 280 for SC/ST and OBC and between 244 and 299 for the physically challenged. For candidates seeking admission under management quota of self-financing colleges, the cutoff is between 262 and 320 for general category, 225 and 280 for SC/ST and OBC and 244 and 299 for the physically challenged.

For candidates seeking admission to PG dental courses in state-run dental college and Annamalai University, the revised percentile issued by the NBE is between 149 and 233 for the general category, between 115 and 203 for SC/ST/OBC and between 133 and 218 for the physically handicapped.

The revised percentilecutoff for MDS courses under management quota of self-financing dental colleges has been revised as between149 and 233 for general category, 155 and 203 for SC/ST/OBC and between 133 and 218 for the physically handicapped.

Candidates who are yet to apply can submit their downloaded applications with a demand draft for ₹5,000 drawn in favour or the secretary, selection committee, Kilpauk and hand it over in person to the secretary, selection committee, Chennai on or before 5pm on May 3.

Man cheats doctor couple of ₹73L, held

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 
 
01.05.2018

Central crime branch (CCB) police on Monday arrested a 57-year-old white collar offender, for cheating a doctor couple by promising to getthem a ₹50croreloan,for which he collected ₹73 lakh as commission, along with signed blank cheques from them.

Panneerselvam, found to be involved in more than 12 cheating cases, was remanded in judicial custody.

Police said, Dr V Kamaraja, a resident of Alwarthirunagar, and his ophthalmologist wife approached Panneerselvam through an agent seeking a loan of ₹50 crore to develop their farm near Sivakasi. Panneerselvam collected the said commission in instalments of ₹13 lakh and two ₹30 lakhs.

The doctors filed a complaint after hedemanded another ₹7 lakhs.Preliminary inquiries revealed that Panneerselvam posed himself close to political power centres in Delhi tothreaten his victims against preferring police complaints.