AIIMS declares MBBS entrance results; girls bag top three ranks
New Delhi, June 18: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday declared the results of its 2018 MBBS entrance exam for the 800 seats at the hospital's nine campuses across the country. The top three ranks were bagged by girls.
"The results of the AIIMS-MBBS 2018 Entrance Examination held on May 26 and 27 for 800 seats in AIIMS, New Delhi and other eight AIIMS were declared... This time the first three ranks went to females," AIIMS media and protocol division Chairperson Aarti Vij said.
The results have been posted on the hospital's official website - aiimsexam.org.
There are 100 seats each in AIIMS New Delhi, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh and for the first time, 50 seats each in AIIMS Mangalagiri (in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur) and Nagpur, the hospital said in a statement.
The entire examination was held in computer based test (online) mode and for the first time in four shifts spread across two days. The examination was conducted in 316 centres in 154 cities across 29 states and three Union Territories in both Hindi and English.
Of the 4,52,931 applicants, 3,74,520 appeared in the exam. The number of female candidates was 2,03,427, the number of male candidates was 1,71,077 and there were 16 third gender candidates.
A total of 7,617 candidates have qualified (2,705 females and 4,912 males) and are eligible for online counselling session for admission in AIIMS, the hospital said.
It said that in the first round of online counselling, candidates four times the number of seats available in each category will be exercising their choices. "If the seats remain vacant in the initial round of counselling, then the online counselling process will be opened to other eligible candidates," it said.
From this year onwards, the counselling process will be conducted in online mode except in the open round, AIIMS said.
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First direct US-Venezuela commercial flight in 7 years to land in Caracas
Caracas (Venezuela) (AP): The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela is scheduled to land on Thursday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, seven years after the US Department of Homeland Security ordered an indefinite suspension, citing security concerns.
The resumption of a commercial flight between the two countries comes in the wake of the US capture of Nicolás Maduro in a stunning nighttime raid on his residence in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, in early January.
It also comes a month after the US formally reopened its embassy in Caracas following the restoration of full diplomatic relations with the South American country.
Flight AA3599 operated by Envoy Air, a subsidiary of American Airlines, was scheduled to depart from Miami at 10:16 a.m. local time and arrive three hours later in the Venezuelan capital, returning to Florida later in the afternoon.
Earlier, the airline said a second daily flight between Miami and Caracas will start on May 21.
In late January, US President Donald Trump said he informed Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez that he would open up all commercial airspace over Venezuela, allowing Americans to visit.
“American citizens will be very shortly able to go to Venezuela, and they'll be safe there,” Trump said at the time.
The flights mark the resumption of nonstop travel between the US and Venezuela for the first time since diplomatic ties were severed in 2019. For the past seven years, passengers have relied on international airlines and indirect routes through neighbouring Latin American countries.
In January, when the airline announced the resumption of flights it said it would give customers the opportunity to reunite with families and pursue new business opportunities.
American Airlines was the last US airline flying to Venezuela. It suspended flights in 2019 between Miami and Caracas, as well as flights to the oil hub city of Maracaibo. Delta and United Airlines pulled out in 2017 amid a political crisis that forced millions to flee the country.
