Dhaka, April 8 (IANS) With Bangladesh’s measles outbreak having claimed over 128 lives already since March 15, including mostly children, Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat on Wednesday accused the former Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of cancelling several public welfare initiatives introduced by the Sheikh Hasina-led government, including the national immunisation programme. The former Bangladesh Minister stressed that the previous interim government must be held responsible for le…
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New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear, on April 28, a batch of pleas challenging the reduction in the qualifying cut-off percentile for the NEET-PG 2025–26 examination.During a brief hearing, senior advocate Gopal Sankarnarayanan, appearing for the petitioners, submitted that a sufficient number of candidates had already qualified the NEET-PG examination to fill all available postgraduate seats, and that a reduction in the cut-off was unwarranted.He argued th…
Dhaka, April 7 (IANS) As Bangladesh grapples with a measles outbreak, a total of 118 people, mostly children, died from the suspected cases, local media reported on Tuesday, citing the country’s Directorate General of Health Services(DGHS).According to the DGHS, the fatalities have been recorded since March 15, including five deaths in the 24-hour period ending Monday morning.The health agency stated that the 2006 suspected measles patients, primarily children, are currently receiving care at …
Dhaka, April 1 (IANS) As the measles outbreak triggers public health concerns across Bangladesh, as many as four children have died from suspected cases and related complications in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 44 this year, local media reported on Wednesday.According to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) spokesman Shankar K. Biswas, two children died of suspected measles in the last 24 hours, raising the hospital’s tally of fatalities from the highly contagious infection …
Dhaka, March 11 (IANS) The new building of Narsingdi’s 250-bed District Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has still not started functioning because of a severe shortage of manpower and essential equipment, according to local media reports. The construction of this new infrastructure was completed four years ago. Due to the delay in launching services at the new facility, the district’s primary government hospital continues to operate from its older infrastructure that was designed for only 100 beds…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has told the Supreme Court that the decision to reduce the qualifying percentile for NEET-PG 2025–26 was taken after detailed deliberations by expert bodies in view of a large number of vacant postgraduate medical seats and in the interest of optimal utilisation of national healthcare infrastructure.An affidavit filed by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) stated that the challenge to the January 13 notifica…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the decision to drastically reduce the qualifying cut-off percentiles for the NEET-PG 2025–26 examination. As per the daily cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe will take up the matter for hearing on February 23. Earlier, the apex court court had issued notice on the PIL questioning the decision of the Nati…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has told the Supreme Court that it had no role whatsoever in the decision to reduce the qualifying cut-off percentile for NEET-PG 2025–26, adding that its function is strictly limited to conducting the examination and publishing results as per directions issued by the competent authorities. In a short reply sworn by NBEMS Law Officer Mohd. Sameen, it was stated that the petition challenging the January 13 n…