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Friday, March 27, 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

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Opinion

What ambassador Xu Feihong expects from youth in China and India

Xu Feihong -
China and India are home to 1.2 billion young people. They’re the pioneers in advancing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and realising the vision of ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’.

Religion was not a consistent barrier for temple or mosque entry in India. It’s caste doing

India’s economic data needs to include culture. NSS needs an upgrade

Economy

India’s strategic oil reserves tell a tale of structural constraints & stalled expansion. Here’s why

+TFP Udit Bubna -
India’s oil reserves, which can last just 74-75 days, are much less than other major economies. Japan, for instance, holds reserves for 254 days.

Defence

India-Japan to finalise deal to co-develop & co-produce UNICORN mast ‘soon’, says Japanese envoy

Keshav Padmanabhan -
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.

National Interest

The Vishwaguru delusion, mine vs yours, is ruining our view of the world

Shekhar Gupta -
One side thinks India is punching way above its weight. The other thinks Modi has undermined India and it punches below its strength. Both are wrong.

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