Ketan Desai

The World Medical Association (WMA), the top medical-ethics body, on Friday installed an Indian doctor facing corruption charges as its president, despite controversy surrounding his appointment while legal cases are pending.

In the second part of our investigation, we discovered a web of dubious fixers and so-called placement agencies, which supply doctors of all specialties wholesale to colleges, and even claim they can manage the MCI, the main authority meant to vet medical colleges, and issue a license.

A group of eminent citizens and former bureaucrats has written to PM Manmohan Singh questioning the transfer of former health secretary, Keshav Desiraju, to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.

Director Kunal Kohli plans to invite the Kapoor family for a screening of his upcoming movie Teri Meri Kahani.

Shammi Kapoor's son-in-law Ketan Desai said, "He led a full life and I would say (was) a source of inspiration to many people, family members."

Desai may have been sacked from the presidency of the Medical Council of India, his medical registration may have been cancelled but that has not stopped him from being elected to the Senate of the Gujarat University - uncontested.''There are serious charges against him, taking money for giving permission to colleges to run. And now giving him a ba...

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has urged the CBI to prevent council's former disgraced president Dr Ketan Desai from traveling to Canada to attend a medical conference being organised by the World Medical Association (WMA) next week.In a letter sent to CBI director Ashwani Kumar in New Delhi on October 7, the MCI has pointed out that the recent...

Corruption-ridden Medical Council of India (MCI), set up 76 years ago to regulate medical education in the country, was on Saturday dissolved in the wake of a recent scam and was replaced by a six-member panel of eminent doctors, led by gastroenterologist S K Sarin.An ordinance dissolving the scam-tainted MCI was signed by President Pratibha Patil ...

The central government in all likelihood will dissolve the controversy ridden Medical Council of India (MCI). Sources say a seven-member panel will be announced to oversee the functions of the Medical Council of India. As the medical council is an autonomous body, the Union cabinet is preparing to bring in an ordinance to amend the old law governin...

Nearly a month after MCI chief Ketan Desai was arrested on charges of accepting a bribe, the Health Ministry now wants the top medical body dissolved.

CBI has arrested President of Medical Council of India Ketan Desai and two others for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2 crore to grant recognition to a medical college in Punjab.

The World Medical Association (WMA), the top medical-ethics body, on Friday installed an Indian doctor facing corruption charges as its president, despite controversy surrounding his appointment while legal cases are pending.

In the second part of our investigation, we discovered a web of dubious fixers and so-called placement agencies, which supply doctors of all specialties wholesale to colleges, and even claim they can manage the MCI, the main authority meant to vet medical colleges, and issue a license.

A group of eminent citizens and former bureaucrats has written to PM Manmohan Singh questioning the transfer of former health secretary, Keshav Desiraju, to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.

Director Kunal Kohli plans to invite the Kapoor family for a screening of his upcoming movie Teri Meri Kahani.

Shammi Kapoor's son-in-law Ketan Desai said, "He led a full life and I would say (was) a source of inspiration to many people, family members."

Desai may have been sacked from the presidency of the Medical Council of India, his medical registration may have been cancelled but that has not stopped him from being elected to the Senate of the Gujarat University - uncontested.''There are serious charges against him, taking money for giving permission to colleges to run. And now giving him a ba...

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has urged the CBI to prevent council's former disgraced president Dr Ketan Desai from traveling to Canada to attend a medical conference being organised by the World Medical Association (WMA) next week.In a letter sent to CBI director Ashwani Kumar in New Delhi on October 7, the MCI has pointed out that the recent...

Corruption-ridden Medical Council of India (MCI), set up 76 years ago to regulate medical education in the country, was on Saturday dissolved in the wake of a recent scam and was replaced by a six-member panel of eminent doctors, led by gastroenterologist S K Sarin.An ordinance dissolving the scam-tainted MCI was signed by President Pratibha Patil ...

The central government in all likelihood will dissolve the controversy ridden Medical Council of India (MCI). Sources say a seven-member panel will be announced to oversee the functions of the Medical Council of India. As the medical council is an autonomous body, the Union cabinet is preparing to bring in an ordinance to amend the old law governin...

Nearly a month after MCI chief Ketan Desai was arrested on charges of accepting a bribe, the Health Ministry now wants the top medical body dissolved.

CBI has arrested President of Medical Council of India Ketan Desai and two others for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2 crore to grant recognition to a medical college in Punjab.