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Monday, January 26, 2026
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Topic: medical college

India’s education sector to remain on double-digit growth trajectory—higher enrolments, fee hikes

A CRISIL report also says engineering courses continue to log healthy demand despite job market headwinds, and issues related to visas and immigration restrictions in the US.

Why Jammu’s Vaishno Devi medical college is state-of-the-art but empty today

A newly opened medical college in Jammu was shut after protests over its Muslim-majority student intake, leaving students and staff in limbo.

3 of its teaching doctors linked to Red Fort blast, Faridabad’s Al-Falah medical school under NMC lens

Al-Falah University in Faridabad is under scrutiny after staff members at its medical school—Umar Mohammad, Muzammil Shakeel and Shaheen Shahid—were linked to the Red Fort blast.

1857 hero or the Chyawanprash sage? New medical college in Haryana’s Narnaul lands in naming row

The village panchayat, which donated 80 acres for the project, is demanding that the college be named after freedom fighter Rao Tula Ram.

Doctors welcome MP’s decision to scrap seat-leaving bond for MBBS students. What the policy entails

Policy mandates students to pay fines worth lakhs to institute they're studying in for leaving course midway. MP's move is being praised, but there are also those who defend the policy.

Nagaland’s no longer the only state without a medical college. Can Kohima be next Vellore?

The Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR) opened its doors in September to 100 students after nearly a decade of delays.

Govt stares at 1700 leftover postgraduate medical seats despite lowering qualifying marks to zero

Through a 20 September circular, the Union Health Ministry allowed MBBS candidates, who had appeared for NEET-PG, 2023, to opt for leftover seats in medical colleges. But has not got a favourable response as these seats are in non-clinical branches.

What forced Naveen to study medicine in Ukraine — reservation or NEET? Here’s the real answer

Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar was killed in Kharkiv. But what made him go to Ukraine is a story of NEET, money and lack of seats in India.

SC clears path for NEET counselling, upholds OBC quota, allows EWS criteria for this session

A two-judge bench upholds the validity of Centre’s July 2021 notification to allow 27% reservation for OBCs (non-creamy layer). The court will rule on EWS quota later in March.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.