NEET cutoff ranks rise for medical seats in Karnataka
Bengaluru: The allotment of medical seats in Karnataka for the 2024-25 academic year has seen a notable increase in cutoff ranks. The NEET cutoff rank for general merit seats at Bengaluru Medical College and Research Institute, a top choice for medical students, has risen to 2154, up from 2995 last year.
The last rank to secure a general merit government seat for MBBS this year is 69,117 at Jagadguru Gangadhar Mahaswamigalu Moorusavirmath Medical College, Dharwad, compared to 72,354 in 2023. This rise in cutoff ranks aligns with the higher scoring in NEET 2024, which has sparked several controversies.
The first-round seat allotments, announced by KEA, also show increased cutoffs for private colleges. Kasturba Medical College, Mangaluru, now has a cutoff of 6,463, up from 8,144 last year, while Mysuru Medical College has moved to third place with a cutoff of 7,069. Other notable cutoffs include Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences at 7,166 and ESI Medical College, Mangaluru at 12,263.
The next step for candidates begins today, with the procedure starting on August 31. Students can enter their choices from 11 am on August 31 to 11:59 pm on September 3. All participating institutes have been instructed to treat all weekends and holidays as working days to adhere to the schedule.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
