Explained| Supreme Court verdict on NEET UG 2024
“Courts may direct the cancellation of an examination or approve such cancellation by the competent authority only if it is not possible to separate the tainted candidates from the untainted ones.”
Medical education
No re-test for NEET UG 2024 as Supreme Court finds no material indicating vitiated results or systemic breaches
On 22-07-2024 the Supreme Court has asked the Director of IIT, Delhi to constitute a three-member expert committee to give their opinion regarding the correct answer to a multiple-choice question of NEET-UG 2024, for which the NTA awarded marks for two options.
Delhi High Court restrains Bodhisatva Charitable Trust from using the mark ‘MAYO’; grants injunction to Mayo Clinic, USA
The founder of the defendant institutions was not only aware of ‘Mayo Clinic’ in the USA but drew inspiration from the founder of ‘Mayo Clinic’, USA. Thus, the defendants have dishonestly adopted the ‘MAYO’ mark of the plaintiff as they are fully aware of the prior existence and use of the same by the plaintiff.
‘Rural health practitioners are not medical practitioners’; Assam Rural Health Regulatory Authority Act, 2004 rightly struck down by Gauhati HC: Supreme Court
Observing that performance of functions identical to those performed by medical practitioners by persons who do not possess the qualifications prescribed under the Central Act, could have dangerous consequences, the Supreme Court held that Rural Health Practitioners enlisted under the Assam Act, are underqualified to perform functions similar to those performed by medical practitioners registered in accordance with the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. The Court, however, upheld the constitutionality of the Assam Community Professional (Registration and Competency) Act, 2015 that was enacted to give continuity in service to the practitioners in question.
Gujarat High Court │ Students of Diploma in Pharmacy Course can’t be denied registration as Pharmacists on Council’s failure to approve medical stores for training
Gujarat High Court: A.S. Supehia, J. allowed the writ petitions filed by D. Pharm students aggrieved by their non-registration as Pharmacist under
Supreme Court June 2022 Roundup| Clean chit to PM Modi; Maharashtra Political Crisis; Psychological Evaluation of Death Row Convicts; and more
Top Stories of the Month Clean Chit to PM Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots case “SIT Officials have come out with flying
“Process of admission and that too in the medical education cannot be endless”; SC says no to Stray Round of counselling for unfilled NEET-PG 2021 seats
“There cannot be any compromise with the merits and/or quality of Medical Education, which may ultimately affect the Public Health.”
AIIMS to follow roster point-based reservation for preferential candidates: SC
Supreme Court: In a relief to students seeking admission in AIIMS Institutes, the bench of L. Nageswara Rao and AS Bopanna, JJ
Supreme Court April 2022 Roundup: Anganwadi Workers’ right to gratuity; Regulation of Foreign donations; Lakhimpur Kheri violence case; and more
Most Read story of the Month Producing false/fake certificate is a grave misconduct; Dismissal of service justified in such cases “The question
Medical Admissions| SC directs allotment of in-service PG seat to Lady Doctor with experience in Madhya Pradesh’s Naxal/Tribal regions
Supreme Court: The bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant, JJ has directed the State of Madhya Pradesh to allot a
[Presidential Assent] Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Act, 2020 [Key Features]
Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill, 2020 received Presidential Assent on 21-09-2020. The Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda
[Presidential Assent] National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Act, 2020 | National Exit Test to be conducted for granting license as a medical practitioner [Key Highlights]
National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2020 received Presidential Assent on 20-09-2020. The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine
Can’t grant extension of time for counselling merely because graduate doctors don’t want to do PG in nonclinical subjects: SC
Supreme Court: The vacation bench of Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant, JJ has refused to grant extension of time to respective medical