India's National Medical Commission has published proposed amendments to the Registration of Medical Practitioners and Licence to Practice Medicine (Amendment) Regulations 2026, targeting two structural tensions in the country's medical education system: overly restrictive entry barriers for new medical colleges and insufficiently rigorous postgraduate training standards. The draft simultaneously relaxes norms for establishing undergraduate medical colleges while tightening requirements at the postgraduate level, signaling a deliberate rebalancing of where quality control is applied. A notable operational provision would create a single national licence for Armed Forces Medical Services doctors, allowing them to practice across all states without navigating individual state registration processes. Currently, cross-state practice requires separate state-level registration, a friction point that complicates deployment of AFMS personnel. The amendments are still in proposed form, meaning institutional feedback and regulatory review lie ahead before any changes take effect. Colleges planning expansion, postgraduate training programs, and military medical administrators should track the finalized regulation text closely, as the eventual standards will reset compliance baselines across each of these cohorts.
India's Expenditure Finance Committee has cleared a Rs 1.25 lakh crore outlay for India Semiconductor Mission 2.0, up 64 percent from ISM 1.0's Rs 76,000 crore. The proposal now goes to the Cabinet, as two chip plants begin commercial output and a third, CG Semi, is set to open July 4, 2026.
The Supreme Court blocked Trump from firing Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, preserving the Fed's independence from presidential removal power. A separate ruling the same day gave Trump broader authority to dismiss leaders of other independent federal agencies.
The US Supreme Court has blocked President Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, who faced unproven mortgage fraud allegations. The ruling preserves Fed independence for now and keeps a politically charged removal case alive in the courts.
The US Supreme Court, splitting along ideological lines, has allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
