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The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued the academic calendar for the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MBBS 2023 course. NMC released the MBBS Calendar 2022 on October 12 on the official website-- nmc.org.in. As per the NMC academic calendar 2022-23, classes for MBBS 1st year students will commence from November 15, 2022. MBBS students will be taught subjects like Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry in the first year of the UG Medical course. The classes for first will continue till December 15, 2023. Candidates can check the NMC MBBS 2022-23 Academic Calendar below.

MBBS First year course will be of 13 months and this includes the complete process of teaching, exam and results. NMC has divided the third year and fourth year into Parts 1 and 2. In part one, students will be learning forensic medicine and toxicology and community medicine/ PSM for a total of 10.5 months duration. In the second part that is fourth-year students will be learning subjects including general surgery, general medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, ENT and Ophthalmology.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved development of Container Terminal at Tuna-Tekra, Deendayal Port on Build, Operate & Transfer (BOT) basis under Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode.

As part of the project, an estimated cost of Rs 4,243.64 crore will be on the part of the concessionaire and an estimated cost of common user facilities of Rs 296.20 crore will be on the part of the concessioning authority toward development of common user facilities, read a statement.

One of the 12 major ports in India, Deendayal Port is located on the West Coast of India, in the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat. It primarily services northern India, including the land locked Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Urban air mobility company Blade has launched a helicopter taxi service in Bengaluru. The service is launched between Bangalore International Airport and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport and will be available five working days a week from Monday to Friday.

The service was launched on October 10, and it will help commuters save time as the flight will take 12 minutes instead of the two-hour commute to the city by road.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport has been chosen as the pickup spot as it is very close to popular locations in the city, such as Indiranagar and Koramangala, as well as different IT parks.

As Ukraine saw fresh missile strikes ‘in civilian areas’ on Monday morning, all eyes were on Russia’s newly-appointed war leader, nicknamed ‘General Armageddon’ Sergei Surovikin.

President Vladimir Putin recently appointed General Sergey Surovikin to lead the war effort in Ukraine, following a series of military setbacks and growing dissatisfaction in Russia over its neighbor’s invasion. The appointment on Saturday followed the dismissal of two Russian senior military commanders as Kyiv reclaimed territory lost to Russia in Ukraine’s northeast and south. It also comes after the partial destruction of the Kerch Bridge, a vital link between Russia and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

For those not well aware of the civilisational history of India and its existential traumas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mahakal moment in Ujjain would appear to be an act of “Hindu revivalism”, as Jawaharlal Nehru had accused KM Munshi of when the latter was pushing for the restoration of the Somnath temple to its original, pristine glory. It would also incense a large number of pretentious liberals who swear by secularism, little realising that the notion has innate Christian roots and is inherently based on the “specific theological framework that was conceptually conceived of during the Protestant Reformation”, as J Sai Deepak writes in India That Is Bharat.

Prime Minister Modi’s Mahakal act will also dismay those born and brought up with the idea of secularism that unapologetically gives the minorities the first access to the nation’s resources, as prime minister Manmohan Singh would say matter-of-factly, and which, as per sociologist TN Madan, “stigmatises the majority as primordially oriented”. Then, of course, there are Modi’s political and ideological opponents who would see the development through a narrow politico-ideological prism. A tweet from a veteran journalist, closely associated with the previous dispensation, on the day of the inauguration of the Mahakal corridor exposes the divide: “Kuchh TV channelon ne aaj dher saari afeem bechi (Today, some TV channels sold so much opium).”