Gwalior: After the incident, four of the students were detained before being let off following a medical examination on them, and a first information report (FIR) was registered against them along with six others in this connection, an official said.
Earlier, private medical colleges had the autonomy to decide the fees of each seat. This drew a lot of flak and the National Medical Council was heavily criticized. The National Medical Commission was then set up to deal with disparity in fees of private and government medical colleges.
In the last 7 years, MBBS seats have increased by 79.6%, PG seats increased by 80.7% & there has been an 80% rise in the total number of medical seats in the country. Number of medical colleges have increased from 387 to 596.
Earlier on Friday, SDM College of Medical Sciences in Karnataka's Dharwad had reported 66 positive cases. After this, the district administration had tested more people including students, staff and primary contacts of infected students.
The students are believed to have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to media reports. All those who have tested positive for Covid-19 are first-year MBBS students and belong to several other states.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate nine medical colleges and launch several development projects in Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
The number of medical colleges in Assam has gone up to eight with a new one in Lakhimpur town in the northern part of the state.
Several NEET-UG aspirants, who moved the top court, sought directions for conducting a fresh exam and stay on the declaration of results NEET-UG 2021 till the current plea is disposed of.
MBBS students in Madhya Pradesh will be lectured about RSS founder KB Hedgewar, Bhartiya Jana Sangh leader Deendayal Upadhyaya, Swami Vivekanand and B R Ambedkar as part of the first-year foundation course.
Rejecting a plea for more reservation for Tamil Nadu, the Bench said the reservation of AIQ seats for admission to the under-graduate, post-graduate and diploma medical and dental courses across the States must be uniform
NTA released guidelines to fill NEET UG Exam 2021 OMR sheet.
The medical, paramedical classes in the union territory will commence soon
Of the nine medical colleges to be opened next week, recruitment of 400 faculty members is under process
According to sources in the health department, the state government has proposed for six new medical colleges - one each in Arambagh in Hooghly district, Uluberia in Howrah district, Barasat in North 24 parganas, Tamluk in East Midnapore, Jahjargram and Jalpaiguri
Four children have lost their lives in Bihar's Darbhanga Medical College in the last 24 hours. One among them was Covid positive.
GMTA members had proceeded on strike last Friday demanding pay hike among other things but withdrew it hours later after the government promised to find a solution
The Supreme Court has ruled that the migration of a medical student from one college to another can be allowed only if both institutions are recognised by the Centre under the law.
Five undergraduate medical seats have been earmarked for the children of deceased COVID-19 warriors in Puducherry in as many colleges across the country for 2020-21 under a central scheme, the union territory government said on Sunday.
A medical college and hospital will be built in Gurgaon at a cost of Rs 981 crore, officials who attended a meeting presided over by Chief Minister ML Khattar informed Tuesday.
Doctors at King George's Medical University have successfully separated conjoined twins after a nine-hour surgery. It was for the first time that such a surgery has been done in the KGMU.
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