New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has struck down a provision of the Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023, which imposed a blanket ban on migration of medical students from one institution to another, holding it to be “manifestly unreasonable and arbitrary” and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution.A division bench of Chief Justice (CJ) Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia ruled that a complete prohibition on migration fails to account for exceptional and des…
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New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the decision of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to drastically reduce the qualifying cut-off percentiles for the NEET-PG 2025–26 examination. A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe sought responses from the Union of India, NBEMS, the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) and posted the matter fo…
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Doctors on Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court’s order against the use of stem cell therapy to treat autism — a neurodevelopmental condition affecting communication, social interaction, and behaviour.A bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan noted that stem cell therapy lacks “scientific support and has not been recognised as a sound medical practice backed by empirical evidence”.The Bench ruled that “every use of stem cells in patients out…
Bhopal, Jan 27 (IANS) Construction of three new medical colleges in Budhni (Sehore district), Chhatarpur, and Damoh is nearing completion, and the institutions will be made operational from the next academic semester, Madhya Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla said here on Tuesday.Addressing a review meeting of the Public Health and Medical Education Department, Shukla said officials have been directed to ensure that all remaining infrastructure work, procurement of furniture and equip…
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Mehbooba Mufti, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and President of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), recently associated certain protests in Jammu with the decision made by the Muslim-majority region of J&K to join India in 1947.It was profoundly disheartening to witness one of the most outrageous remarks from a leader who has held a constitutional position. Referring to the Jammu groups as “right-wing Hindus”, she stated, “Recent developments champio…
Srinagar, Jan 9 (IANS) Former Chief Minister and president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday that the recent actions of the Hindu groups have negated the decision of the people in the “Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir” to reject the two-nation theory of Mohammad Ali Jinnah by joining Mahatma Gandhi’s secular India.Addressing a press conference here, Mehbooba Mufti said the leadership of J&K joined the secular India represented by Gandhi, thereby rejecting the t…
Jammu, Jan 7 (IANS) The decision of the National Medical Commission (NMC) to withdraw the permission to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME) for starting the MBBS course has stirred the Hornet’s nest in political and public circles of Jammu and Kashmir.Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has lashed out at the Sanghrash Samiti for starting an agitation against the admission of non-Hindu candidates to the medical college for the MBBS course.“They were selected on merit and…