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Chennai: Observing that the bond service posting orders should be issued within the bond period, the Madras High Court recently granted relief to a doctor by quashing her posting order, which was issued beyond the bond period.
“It is well settled principle of law that the posting order should have been issued within the bond period, as it is coextensive with bond period,” observed the HC bench comprising Justice C. Kumarappan.
These directions were issued by the High Court bench while considering a plea filed by a doctor, who challenged her bond service posting order issued after the bond period had expired.
The petitioner joined a Post Graduate Degree in Madras Medical College for the academic year 2020-2023. Consequently, the petitioner completed her course in October, 2023.
It was submitted by the petitioner’s counsel that even though the bond period was originally fixed as two years, it was later reduced to one year, for those who completed their PG course in the year October 2023.
He further submitted that since the petitioner completed her course during October 2023, her bond service is only for one year, therefore, the posting order should have been issued within one year from October 2023. However, the Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine issued a posting order on 26.05.2025, which was in contravention of the orders of the High Court. Therefore, the petitioner’s counsel prayed to issue directions to the authorities to return the original certificates to the doctor.
On the other hand, the Government counsel submitted that according to the prospectus, the doctor has to render two years of bond service and further submitted that the one year bond service which the doctor relied on, did not apply to the petitioner.
Meanwhile, the doctor’s counsel referred to G.O.(Ms).No. 351, dated 27.10.2023, through which, the Government had reduced the bond period to one year for those who completed their PG course in October 2023.
Taking note of this, the HC bench observed, “Admittedly, the petitioner had completed her PG Course in the year October-2023, therefore, as rightly contended by the learned counsel for the petitioner the bond period for the petitioner is only for one year, whereas admittedly the posting order was issued after one year.”
Opining that it was a well settled legal principal that the posting order should have been issued within the bond period, the bench noted that in this case, “it was issued subsequent to the bond period”.
Accordingly, the High Court quashed the bond service order and directed the authorities to return the original certificates to the petitioner. It ordered, “Therefore, this Court deems it appropriate to quash the posting order issued by the 3 rd respondent in R.No.10305312/E5/A4/2025, dated 26.05.2025 signed on 26.06.2025. As a concomitant the respondents are directed to return all the original certificates to the petitioner, within the period of four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order.”
To view the order, click on the link below:
https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/madras-hc-bond-documents-298736.pdf
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Rishikesh: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS Rishikesh) has invited online applications for the post of Senior Resident (Non-Academic) on a tenure basis in different specialties in this medical institute.
AIIMS, Rishikesh an Autonomous Institute of National Importance is one of the new AIIMS and apex healthcare being established by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India under Pradhan Mantri Swastya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY) with aim of correcting the regional imbalance in quality tertiary level healthcare in-country, and attaining self-sufficiency in graduate and postgraduate medical education and training.
The Vacancies are in the Departments of Anaesthesiology, Anatomy, Biochemistry, Community Medicine, Dermatology, ENT, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, General Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, General Surgery, Microbiology, Nuclear Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Radio Diagnosis, Radiotherapy, Transfusion Med. & Blood Bank, and Trauma & Emergency (Emergency Medicine).
Candidates are required to bring the printout of online application form submitted along with relevant documents to Recruitment Cell, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh- 249203 on date of interview.
Online Applications are invited for filling up posts of Senior Resident in following departments in AIIMS Rishikesh on tenure basis. On-line application(s) will be available on AIIMS, RISHIKESH web site www.aiimsrishikesh.edu.in w.e.f. 11.08.2025 10:00 hrs to 09.09.2025 23:59 hrs
To be eligible for selection for these posts, the candidate should have passed the qualifying examination by last date of application submission and result declared to this effect on or before by this date. The tenure of qualifying degree should also be finished latest by last date of application form submission.
Candidate should bring following original documents and one set of self-attested photocopies at time of Interview with application form: –
1. Proof of application fee deposit (If any)
2. One Identity Proof (PAN Card, Passport, Driving License, Voter Card, Aadhar Card etc.)
3. Address Proof
4. Certificate showing Date of Birth. (10th Certificate / Birth Certificate)
5. Four recent passport size photographs
6. Class 10 & 12 Certificates
7. MBBS/UG Mark sheets & Certificates
8. MD/MS/DNB/DM/MCh PG Marks Sheet & Certificate (Verified by MCI).
9. Attempt Certificate
10. Experience Certificate (Copy of completion of Internship for medical candidates)
11. Registration with Medical Council of India / State Medical
12. SC/ST/OBC/EWS certificate issued by competent authority (if applicable)
13. Publications
14. PwBD certificate issued by competent authority (if applicable)
15. Fee Receipt
16. Any other relevant document
Tenure: 01 year, renewable.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday heard a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives Association of India, seeking statutory backing for the Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) to curb freebies offered by pharmaceutical companies to doctors.
The matter came up before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta. During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted, “A statutory regime already exists, but I’ll need time to place it before the court.”
As per a recent media report by the LawChakra, Justice Vikram Nath immediately raised a pointed query, asking, “Regime is there, but is it actually being enforced?”
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for one of the parties, added, “In 2024, a new regulatory framework was introduced.”
The Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) had amended the UCPMP 2024 to ease compliance for pharmaceutical companies. The amendments introduced clarity on the valuation of free samples, shifted the responsibility of marketing expenditure disclosure to industry associations, replaced the annexure form, and extended the submission timeline for FY 2024-25.
A new sub-clause under the code further clarified:
“(i) In case the company is the manufacturer of such samples, the samples should be valued on a per unit basis, i.e., per tablet/capsule/vial/gram/ml, and its value should be the price charged to the stockist or immediate customer on a per unit basis for the same dosage form and strength; and
(ii) In case the company has purchased such samples from another supplier, the purchase price should be used for determining the monetary value of free samples under this Code. The price of free samples should be recorded as the average price charged to the stockist or immediate customer, or the average price paid for the purchase of medicines for the same dosage form and strength on an annual basis.”
However, Justice Sandeep Mehta raised concerns over the effectiveness of the framework, remarking, “If it’s a toothless tiger, what’s the purpose?”
To this, Solicitor General Mehta countered, “It’s a tiger with teeth.”
After hearing the submissions, the Court granted time for the government to place details of the regulatory framework on record and directed that the matter be listed again on October 7. On the joint request of SG Tushar Mehta and Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, the Bench also tagged Writ Petition (C) 794/2023 to be heard along with the case.
Law Chakra reports that the petition further stressed that “This code is enforceable against doctors, however, does not apply to drug companies, leading to anomalous situations where doctors’ licenses are cancelled for misconduct which is actuated, encouraged, aided, and abetted by pharma companies. The pharma companies go scot-free.”
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New Delhi: The counselling for the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2025 examination is going to commence soon, as the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is expected to announce the NEET PG 2025 counselling schedule for 50% All India Quota (AIQ) seats any day.
Meanwhile, the plea challenging the National Board of Examinations of Medical Sciences’ method of releasing the NEET PG 2025 examination is still pending, and the Supreme Court has adjourned the plea, which sought transparency in the PG medical entrance exam, for a further hearing next week.
Recently, the plea sought an urgent hearing, citing that the MCC counselling is set to commence on or after September 5, 2025. Questioning the intent of the petitioners, the top court bench adjourned the matter to next week for further hearing.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that a group of NEET-PG 2025 aspirants filed a plea before the Supreme Court challenging the “corrective notice” issued by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) on August 21.
The plea claimed that the new disclosure mechanism of answer keys, as announced by NBEMS, is “opaque, unintelligible and incapable of meaningful verification.”
In the notice dated 21.08.2025, NBEMS mentioned that the sequence of questions asked within a section of the Question paper of NEET-PG 2025 is shuffled for different candidates, and the order of four options for a question are also shuffled for different candidates. Therefore, NBE had decided that the questions, correct answer key and responses marked shall be displayed as per the sequence in Master set of Question Paper used for NEET-PG 2025.
When the matter came up for hearing before the top court bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justice K. Vinod Chandran on September 1, 2025, the bench noted that the plea involved the interpretation of the order passed by the Apex Court on 29.04.2025. Accordingly, the bench directed to place the matter before the bench presided over by Justice J.B.Pardiwala.
In the order dated 29.04.2025, the Apex Court bench comprising Justice J.B.Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan had issued 10-point directives to reform the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) exam and the bench had also directed the National Board of Examinations (NBE) to publish the raw scores, answer keys, and normalisation formula for the NEET PG exam.
After several conflicts and court proceedings, this year, the NEET PG exam was held on August 3, 2025 and the results of the exam was declared on August 19, 2025.
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New Delhi- The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 has been released for Dental colleges across India. The NIRF Ranking 2025 highlights the standard of education, infrastructure, faculty and research facilities in these institutions.
NIRF 2025 was declared by the Ministry of Education on September 4. Union Minister of Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, released the India Rankings 2025, which implements the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) drafted for this purpose by the Ministry of Education in 2015. Shri Sukanta Majumdar, Minister of State for Education and DoNER, Dr. Vineet Joshi, Secretary (HE), Prof. T.G. Sitharam, Chairman, AICTE, Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, NETF, NAAC and NBA and Dr. Anil Kumar Nassa, Member Secretary, NBA, were present on this occasion along with vice chancellors and directors of institutions of higher education.
According to the NRIF 2025 ranking, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, has been ranked number 1 across India with 89.12 score. Along with this, Dental colleges in Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Odisha have also been able to get into the top 10 in the list of NIRF ranking 2025.
The top 10 Dental colleges include-
1 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi
2 Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences.
3 Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences
4 Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
5 Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal
6 A.B.Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences
7 King George`s Medical University
8 SRM Dental College
9 Siksha `O` Anusandhan
10 JSS Dental College and Hospital
The following are the top 40 Dental colleges across India, as per the NIRF Ranking 2025 –
|
RANK |
INSTITUTE |
STATE |
SCORE |
|
1 |
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi |
Delhi |
89.12 |
|
2 |
Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences |
Tamil Nadu |
85.31 |
|
3 |
Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences |
Delhi |
72.55 |
|
4 |
Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth |
Maharashtra |
72.36 |
|
5 |
Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal |
Karnataka |
70.58 |
|
6 |
A.B.Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences |
Karnataka |
69.00 |
|
7 |
King George`s Medical University |
Uttar Pradesh |
68.89 |
|
8 |
SRM Dental College |
Tamil Nadu |
68.19 |
|
9 |
Siksha `O` Anusandhan |
Odisha |
63.12 |
|
10 |
JSS Dental College and Hospital |
Karnataka |
62.59 |
|
11 |
Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore |
Karnataka |
62.43 |
|
12 |
Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences |
Haryana |
62.03 |
|
13 |
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research |
Tamil Nadu |
61.28 |
|
14 |
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham |
Tamil Nadu |
60.83 |
|
15 |
Banaras Hindu University |
Uttar Pradesh |
60.14 |
|
16 |
Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research |
Tamil Nadu |
59.92 |
|
17 |
Jamia Millia Islamia |
Delhi |
59.50 |
|
18 |
Faculty of Dental Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences |
Uttar Pradesh |
58.21 |
|
19 |
Nair Hospital Dental College |
Maharashtra |
58.10 |
|
20 |
Govt. Dental College, Nagpur |
Maharashtra |
57.70 |
|
21 |
Govt. Dental College, Mumbai |
Maharashtra |
57.42 |
|
22 |
M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences |
Karnataka |
57.39 |
|
23 |
Mahatma Gandhi P.G. Institute of Dental Sciences |
Pondicherry |
57.05 |
|
24 |
Christian Dental College |
Punjab |
56.96 |
|
25 |
SDM College of Dental Sciences & Hospital |
Karnataka |
56.49 |
|
26 |
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology |
Odisha |
56.34 |
|
27 |
Sree Balaji Dental College & Hospital |
Tamil Nadu |
56.32 |
|
28 |
Aligarh Muslim University |
Uttar Pradesh |
55.69 |
|
29 |
KLE Vishwanath Katti Institute of Dental Sciences |
Karnataka |
55.42 |
|
30 |
Dr. M. G. R. Educational and Research Institute |
Tamil Nadu |
55.08 |
|
31 |
Yenepoya Dental College |
Karnataka |
55.00 |
|
32 |
Chettinad Dental College and Research Institute |
Tamil Nadu |
54.90 |
|
33 |
Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies |
Haryana |
54.86 |
|
34 |
Government Dental College, Bangalore |
Karnataka |
54.80 |
|
35 |
Government Dental College |
Kerala |
54.73 |
|
36 |
Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research |
Maharashtra |
54.29 |
|
37 |
Government Dental College |
Gujarat |
54.13 |
|
38 |
Government Dental College |
Kerala |
52.97 |
|
39 |
SRM Kattankulathur Dental College |
Tamil Nadu |
52.88 |
|
40 |
K L E Society’s Institute of Dental Sciences |
Karnataka |
52.19 |
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Berhampur: In an unfortunate incident, an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Ganjam district passed away due to a heart attack at the age of just 45.
The doctor, identified as Dr. Sangram Sabat, had been complaining of chest pain and was taken to the medical college on Friday morning. However, despite immediate medical attention, he could not be saved.
Also read- 39-year-old Cardiac Surgeon dies of cardiac arrest while on duty
MKCG Superintendent Durga Madhab Satapathy told TOI that Dr. Sabat had already passed away by the time he reached the hospital.
Notably, doctors between the ages of 30–45 are increasingly becoming vulnerable to heart-related issues. Factors like long working hours, immense pressure, sedentary lifestyles, and poor eating habits contribute to conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol, which in turn raise the risk of heart attacks and cardiac arrests.
This marks the fifth such case in the past week of doctors succumbing to cardiovascular complications.
Medical Dialogues recently reported a series of tragic incidents involving the sudden deaths of four doctors. Dr Gradlin Roy, a 39-year-old consultant cardiac surgeon at Saveetha Medical College, died from massive cardiac arrest while on duty rounds. Similarly, 40-year-old Dr. Prakash Gupta, an anaesthesia specialist at Goyal Hospitals in Jodhpur, also succumbed to cardiac arrest. A 39-year-old Dr Gaurav Mittal, a critical care specialist and Dr Devan, a 42-year-old associate professor from the cardiology department at Manakula Vinayaga Medical College, both passed away following massive heart attacks.
Also read- Fourth doctor lost in a week: Chennai Cardiologist dies of cardiac arrest
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The Maharashtra Government is reportedly considering scrapping the mandatory bond service for students completing their MBBS course.
The decision to do away with this decades-long bond service policy was taken in a meeting led by the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis around two months ago. During the meeting, the ministers and officials from the state medical education and public health departments discussed ending the one-year rural stint for the undergraduate (UG) programmes. However, the Government decided to keep the bond policy intact for the post-graduate (PG) and super-speciality courses.
For more details, check out the full story on the link mentioned below:
Will Maharashtra scrap Mandatory bond service for MBBS graduates?
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In a significant move aimed at reducing the treatment burden for patients battling cancer and rare genetic disorders, the GST Council has removed the 12% Goods and Services Tax (GST) on 33 expensive and life-saving medicines and diagnostic kits- making them completely tax-free, while other essential medicines, including those under Ayurveda, Unani, and Homoeopathy, will now attract a lower GST of 5% instead of 12%.
The rate on spectacles and corrective goggles has been slashed from 28% to 5%, while medical oxygen, thermometers, and surgical instruments will now be taxed at 5% instead of the earlier 12–18%. In addition, the GST on medical, dental, and veterinary devices has been cut from 18% to 5%, significantly reducing costs across a wide spectrum of healthcare services and products.
For more details, check out the full story on the link mentioned below:
These 33 Life-Saving Drugs, Including Daratumumab, Alectinib, Obinutuzumab, Now GST-Free, See List
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