Related Travel Information

Delhi med students on indefinite strike

New Delhi: Students and interns of five medical colleges here went on an indefinite strike today protesting against the proposed move to increase OBC quotas in educational institutions. Students of Maulana Azad Medical College, Lady Hardinge Medical College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, University College of Medical Sciences and Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College were boycotting lectures and staying away from OPD services, leader of the group Anirudh Lochan told PTI. The resident doctors have also extended their support to the agitation and would be joining the students during the demonstrations, he claimed.

For academics, its Delhi for Assam students

New Delhi : No matter which state one is from, the capital is one of the choicest destinations for higher studies. But students in far-off Assam battle lack of information, while a frugal marking system in the state poses a hindrance to the pursuit of an academic career. Says Rajib Singha Borah, president of the Luitporia Youth Forum, a group that helps students from Assam at Delhi University: Information about admissions, cut-off marks and courses here are hardly known to students and guardians in the state.

Striking Delhi docs observe civil disobedience against quota issue

New Delhi: Even as President APJ Abdul Kalam urged the agitating medical students to end their fast and resume their normal student life, the striking medicos have decided to continue their stir and are observing civil disobedience here today. AIIMS Resident Doctors Association member Dr Vinod Patro said that they have appealed various groups such as traders, resident welfare associations, bank personnel and members of BAR associations to skip the work from 9 a.m. to 12 noon today. According to the striking medicos, the move is being supported by the Delhi Medical Association (DMA) and the Indian Medical Association (IMA).

Patiala medicos join protesters in Delhi

Patiala : The medical students from the three premier institutions of the city today left the city to join medical students of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, who had been on a hunger strike in the protest against the new reservation policy of the union government. More than 70 medical students from the Government Medical College, Government Dental College and Government Ayurvedic College boarded a bus from the premises of the Government Rajindra Hospital that was flagged off by president of the Punjab Branch of the Indian Medical Association, Dr G.S. Gill. In a joint statement,

Army, Railways doctors sought for Delhi hospitals

New Delhi : Doctors were sought today from the Army and Railways to maintain services in state-run hospitals in the national capital in the wake of the continuing anti-reservation stir by medicos and junior doctors. The strike by medical students also affected health services in Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Goa and Uttar Pradesh. Medicos in Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal today joined the stir against the Centres proposal to introduce a 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.