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Saturday, February 14, 2026
TopicMedical Council of India

Topic: Medical Council of India

India needs to innovate in filling vacant hospital posts. Building new AIIMS alone won’t cut it

Dr Karan Thakur -
Right-minded reforms in healthcare are in place, but India should not end up in a situation where the surgery is successful but the patient is dead.

Kashmir cops ‘questioning’ students enrolled in Pakistan colleges, cite radicalisation fear

Azaan Javaid -
Police in Kashmir have denied the allegations, which come after Imran Khan govt in Pakistan announced 1,600 scholarships for Kashmiri students.

Critics of Modi govt’s medical education reform Act are missing these 3 points

Parth J. Shah -
The heavily criticised provisions of NMC Act can have a direct impact on other professional education domains if the reform model is applied to them.

What is National Medical Commission Bill and why doctors are against it

Achyut Mishra -
The medical fraternity has raised several objections to NMC Bill that aims to replace the Medical Council of India with National Medical Commission.

Modi govt wants to beat WHO standards on doctors with ‘non-doctors’

Prateek Gupta -
India's doctor to population ratio will be 1:902, better than WHO's standard 1:1000, if the 7.63 lakh AUH doctors are included.

Healthcare being neglected, govt needs to pay more attention and funds, say experts

Sakshi Arora -
At the South Asia Conclave 2018, panellists discuss the state of healthcare in India in the face of ‘inadequate funding’. New Delhi: A rising diabetes...

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

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

Apex court’s judgment on Diwali firecrackers is not the first case of judicial overreach

Sanjay Dixit -
SC-appointed committees in BCCI and MCI cases have powers to virtually run executive affairs, sidelining the government and elected executive bodies

A fresh constitution bench will now decide if Lodha committee on medical education should continue

Apurva Vishwanath -
The chief justice will now have to set up the larger bench even as at least 39 such cases are already pending before the court.  APURVA VISHWANATH

Lodha Committee on medical education shut shop days before govt snub

Rama Lakshmi -
The Supreme Court panel to regulate functioning of Medical Council of India disbanded itself at the end of its contentious one-year tenure without any report so far of having fulfilled its mandate. RAMA LAKSHMI

On Camera

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Opinion

What if your partner doesn’t believe in Valentine’s Day and you do

Ratan Priya -
Valentine’s Day is a threat to undefined 'attachments' of the modern dating world. Don’t even ironically wish your humourless, insignificant other if you don’t want to be ghosted.

Ready smile & mild manner to ‘bowing before ruling party’—Om Birla’s evolution as Speaker

Toppling govts is easier than winning polls for protesters. Bangladesh is the latest proof

Economy

7 lakh jobs created, Rs 50 lakh-cr investments bagged, says UP CM. Oppn flags MoU-reality gap

Prashant Srivastava -
CM Yogi Adityanath claims that from being called a ‘bimaru’ state, UP is now among the top-3 economies in India. The 2026 Budget session of the UP assembly is currently underway.

Defence

Australian amphibian aircraft firm eyes Indian civil & military market, ties up with Apogee Aerospace

Debdutta Chakraborty -
Aligning with India's push to promote inter-coastal air connectivity, Apogee has ordered 15 seaplanes in a deal valued at Rs 3,500 crore.

National Interest

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

Shekhar Gupta -
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.

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