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MUMBAI: In an unprecedented move in the state, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has cancelled admissions to 141 seats in private colleges conducted at the institute level.The round for stray vacancies in private colleges was conducted in "clear violation" of a directive issued by the commission in July disallowing institute-level MBBS admissions. The admissions thus granted will be considered...

LONDON: In a shocking incident of "institutional racism" in the UK, nurses reportedly tied a Sikh patient's beard with plastic gloves, leaving him in his own urine and offering him food he could not eat for religious reasons, according to a media report. Despite the man complaining about the discrimination in a note on his deathbed, the nurses were allowed to carry on working, The Independent newspaper...