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NEW DELHI: - MEDICOS DISABILITY NORMS There was this report in the print media “NMC’s disability norms to focus on ‘What student can do’.” With disabled medical students going in circles not only while studying medicine, but also once they clear the degree level to keep themselves usefully occupied, this development is very positive empowerment of disabled medicos. Acting on directions from the Supreme Court, NMC (National Medical Commission) is set to review the disability guidelines for both admission to medical college, so also to perform as medical practitioner, once disabled person is qualified as a doctor. To begin with NMC has renamed the Disability Assessment Boards as Ability Assessment Board, to recognize the ability of the disabled student to learn, clear the exam and then start medical practice. Here emphasis is clearly on what the student can do or perform rather than the degree of disability aprisal. According to the proposed review there will be no rigid disability per...

TRUMPONOMICS & THE WORLD AT LARGE Donald John Trump, is probably the only person and an issue that made ISSUES & CONCERNS, repeat the Focus on the man, in less than 4 months. It was in January 2025 that I&C carried the Focus “DONALD J TRUMP: The New U.S. President”, and we are in May, in three intervening months, the man and the U.S. President forced himself into the Focus, for the kind of words and actions that followed from the 47th occupant of the White House. He is also the 45th President of U.S., having lost his bid for being 46th President in 2020. He attempted yet again in 2024 and was successful. After his first term, reportedly “Scholars and historians ranked him as one of the worst president of the United States of America in the entire history of U.S. Presidency”. Be that as it may, Americans supporting the Republican Party elected him to contest the U.S. Presidential election in 2024 and he won against Democrat Kamala Harris. So clearly Americans by and large w...