Kharagpur, West Bengal, 30 July 2025 – On the heels of a stern rebuke from the Supreme Court over rising student suicides, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has announced that it will hire a full‑time psychiatrist and roll out a raft of mental‑health initiatives for its 13,000‑plus students. A Supreme Court bench recently asked the institute, […]
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India Doubles Medical Colleges to 780 UG Seats Rise to 115,900, Doctor-Patient Ratio Now 1:811
New Delhi, 30 July 2025 – Union Health Minister J P Nadda told the Rajya Sabha today that the number of medical colleges in India has nearly doubled over the last decade, rising from 387 in 2014 to 780 currently. Undergraduate (UG) seats increased from 51,348 to 1,15,900, while postgraduate (PG) seats rose from 31,185 to 74,306. The expansion forms part […]