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Monkey runs off with bag, Ngp man falls 150ft to death chasing it

07.11.2026

Bhopal: In a freak incident that turned fatal, a 52-year-old teacher from Nagpur died on Friday morning after falling nearly 150 feet into a gorge at the Priyadarshini View Point at Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district.

The Priyadarshini point is typically known to pack in early visitors to catch the sunrise. Vijay Nayak was visiting the hill station with 20 schoolchildren and fellow teachers. His father was also part of the group. According to a teacher who witnessed the incident, the group reached the viewpoint around 6.45 am when a monkey snatched Nayak’s bag.

Nayak climbed over the safety railing to chase the monkey. While trying to retrieve his bag, he lost his balance and plunged into the gorge. Police and local residents launched a rescue operation after being alerted. The team trekked nearly 3 km through difficult terrain to reach him and brought his body up on a stretcher.

The rescue reportedly took about three and a half hours. His body was brought up around 9.30 am, according to the account provided after the fatal incident. The body was taken to a govt hospital for post-mortem examination and subsequently handed over to his family, who left for Nagpur. TNN

HC refuses to relax 30% cap on in-service docs’ PG admissions

07.11.2026 TIMES BHOPAL

Bhopal/Jabalpur: Madhya Pradesh high court on Thursday extended its stay on admissions of in-service doctors to postgraduate medical courses beyond the 30% quota, rejecting the director of medical education’s (DME) request to relax the restriction. Chief Justice Alpesh Y Kogje and Justice Vivek Jain declined to modify the interim order limiting such admissions to 30% of PG seats in state medical colleges. The restriction thus remains operative. Petitioners Jahnavi Batra and Dr S Singh challenged admissions of inservice doctors under both their reserved quota and the open category, alleging this pushed their selection beyond the prescribed limit.

They said first-round counselling was complete and the selection list released. Document verification was underway, with counselling scheduled to continue until Nov 10. The petitioners alleged in-service doctors were securing open-category seats, including in soughtafter specialities, despite having a separate quota. Their counsel, Aditya Sanghi, argued candidates appearing for the entrance examination as in-service doctors should be considered only against their designated quota, not opencategory seats. TNN

NMC adds 9,783 PG medical seats; total rises to 68,305

07.11.2026 TIMES BENGALURU

New Delhi: India’s postgraduate medical education system is set for a major expansion, with 9,783 seats being added for the 2026-27 academic year. The increase takes the total approved postgraduate (PG) intake to 68,305, up from 58,522, with govt medical colleges accounting for the largest share of the new seats, reports Anuja Jaiswal.

Of the additional seats, 4,373 have been added in govt medical colleges, 4,148 in private colleges and 1,262 in deemed universities, Dr M K Ramesh, president of the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) medical assessment and rating board (MARB), told TOI. PG medical seats are spread across several states, with five accounting for a little over half of the national intake. Karnataka has the highest number, with 8,998 approved seats for 2026- 27, followed by Maharashtra with 7,682. Uttar Pradesh has 6,983 seats, Tamil Nadu 6,819 and Telangana 4,417. Together, these five states account for 34,899 seats, or around 51% of the total approved PG broad speciality intake of 68,305.

Explaining the increase, Ramesh said a change in the rules has allowed medical colleges to apply for postgraduate courses much earlier than before. Earlier, colleges could apply to start PG courses only after four-and-a-half years of establishment, when their first MBBS batch had passed out. Under the revised process, they can apply from the second year itself. He also pointed to the sharp rise in the number of medical colleges over the past decade, saying more institutions are now applying to start postgraduate courses. “I have given more to govt colleges,” he said, referring to the larger addition in govt institutions.

Class X, XII board exams from Feb 16; CBSE issues date sheets

07.11.2026 TIMES CHENNAI

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday released the date sheets for the Class X and XII board examinations for 2027, with both sets of examinations scheduled to begin on Feb 16. The schedules have been announced 101 days before the start of the examinations, giving students more than three months to plan their preparation.

According to a circular issued by CBSE controller of examinations Sanyam Bhardwaj on Nov 6, over 46.3 lakh students have registered for the 2027 board examinations. This includes more than 26.5 lakh Class X students and over 19.8 lakh Class XII students. While Class X students will appear in 83 subjects, Class XII students will take examinations in 121 subjects.

All examinations will begin at 10.30 am. CBSE said the date sheets were finalised after the completion of the list of candidates (LOC) submission process by schools and an analysis of the subject combinations opted for by students. Explaining the scheduling process, the board stated: “More than 40,000 subject combinations have been factored in while preparing the date sheets to ensure that examinations of any two subjects opted by a student do not coincide on the same date.”

The board said adequate gaps had been provided between examinations of subjects commonly offered together in both classes. It added that the tentative schedules of major entrance examinations for Class XII students were also taken into account, with efforts made to conclude the board examinations before the commencement of entrance tests. Times News Network

43% MBBS seats go unallotted in stray round

07.11.2026

Chennai: A total of 410 of the 946 MBBS seats offered in Medical Counselling Committee’s special stray round had no takers. On Friday, when the committee released the results of special stray round, all 207 seats in BDS and 66 seats in nursing listed in the seat matrix were allotted to students, but MBBS seats in eight medical colleges in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry remained. If students allotted seats don’t join colleges, vacancies may go up again.

All MBBS vacancies were in eight colleges: 181 or 250 sanctioned seats in Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, 91/250 at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute in Puducherry, 77 seats in Shree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, 36 seats in Vinayaka Missions Kirupananda Variyar Medical College in Salem, 17 seats in ACS Medical College and Hospital in Chennai, and six seats in SRM Medical College and Research Institute. One seat each in Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute and Savitha Medical College and Hospital were vacant.

At the end of the previous stray round, 837 MBBS seats were unallotted. High fees appear to be the main reason seats at deemed universities remain empty. Parents said many institutions, including some in Karnataka and TN, offered annual fee concessions, mostly in private discussions with students and their families. “The discounts were not announced publicly, so students who didn’t get them may have turned down the seats,” said R Kaliarasan, a NEET coach. Times News Network