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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Medical colleges

Medical colleges could reopen from 1 December with strict physical distancing norms

Medical colleges have been asked to keep a sufficient number of non-Covid beds to ensure students can be trained adequately.

National Medical Commission proposes new rules, likely to abolish 5-acre land requirement

The regulations proposed to reduce the minimum bed requirement for a medical college & make skill labs mandatory. NMC has sought feedback from stakeholders by 19 October.

SC asks Madras HC to decide Tamil Nadu’s plea for 50% OBC quota in medical admissions

The state government and various political parties have challenged the Centre's decision not to grant 50% reservation to OBCs as per Tamil Nadu law.

China restricts English-MBBS courses to 45 colleges after record Indian student enrollment

China’s education ministry authorised only 45 out of 200 medical colleges to teach foreign students MBBS in English.

148 Haryana medical students write to PM Modi seeking euthanasia or govt college admission

The students are worried about their future as the institute has been barred by MCI and its successor, stoking fears that their admission is not valid.

Cheap Chinese medical degrees may no longer be an easy option for Indian students

China's medical universities have been a strong draw for Indian students for years with their cheap courses and low threshold for admission scores.

Govt may revert to just English for NEET, instead of regional languages

The latest data has found only 8% of over 13 lakh aspirants wrote the medical entrance exam in regional languages, with a vast majority using English.

Medical research in India can take a hit after SC rules that professors do not need PhDs

The court set aside an Allahabad HC order on the promotion of two faculty members at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Aligarh Muslim University.

In three months, SC gives breather to 25 medical colleges that were banned for two years

In all the cases, the apex court restrained the government from encashing bank guarantees of Rs 2 crore each that the colleges had furnished.

Judges bribery allegations: SC junks petition seeking judicial probe

The petition had sought that a special investigative team headed by a former chief justice of SC to replace the ongoing CBI probe.

On Camera

Mumbai is seeing a big fat family drama. Priya in, Rani out & saas-bahu saga rules

In the Delhi coverage of Sunjay Kapur’s funeral, the Kapur clan seemed united in grief. And then Rani Kapur broke the ‘bhaanda’. Things turned ugly.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.