Even after all this, when the quota system in admission tests remains, it begs the question of why we still need to favour a select group while sidelining other deserving candidates.

Seats being vacant was unimaginable a few years back yet now private medical colleges in the capital are also facing a crisis of students.

Being a doctor grants you the privilege of helping fellow human beings. As rewarding and respectable as the medical profession is, the pathway to becoming a doctor is trying and tedious.

The High Court stays a government decision to deduct marks from second time admission seekers in government-run medical colleges and institutions.

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim says medical admission seekers must give undertakings that they would refrain from smoking and addiction to any drug.

The High Court further rejects a writ petition seeking the authorities to cancel the medical admission test held on September 18, and to probe into the allegations of question leakage.

A public investigation committee is formed to investigate allegations of question leak into this year’s medical admission tests.

Students seeking retake of the MBBS and BDS admission tests withdraw their six-hour sit-in at Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka for today.

Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP), announces its support for the students demanding retake of medical and dental college admission tests.

The results of the admission test of MBBS and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) were published with a pass rate of 58.4 percent.