Paraglider injured in Himachal's Mandi after wind drift lands him on building slab
Mandi (HP), May 31 (PTI): A paraglider from Bihar was seriously injured after he lost control due to speedy winds and fell on a slab of a building in a village in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, officials said on Saturday.
The victim was identified as Vijay Kumar from Bihar. He has about 18 years of experience in taking solo flights. On the day of the incident, he went for paragliding along with his friends. While others managed to land on the Chogan site, he moved about 20 kilometres away from the landing site, police said.
While landing, Kumar dashed against the slab in Pehlum village in Jogindernagar. The villagers spotted him and rushed him to the nearest hospital from where he was referred to Medical Hospital Tanda in Kangra, they said.
According to a medical officer from Jogindernagar, Kumar received two fractures in arms and legs apart from other injuries.
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Kasaragod: Government Medical College gets first MBBS student from Rajasthan
Kasaragod: The Government Medical College, which recently secured the National Medical Commission’s approval, admitted its first MBBS student on Monday, with Gurwinder Singh from Alwar in Rajasthan becoming the first of the 50 students in the inaugural batch of the College.
Singh received a warm welcome into the College with sweets by Principal-in-Charge Dr. KK Santosh Kumar and Medical Superintendent Dr Praveen. The admission procedure was formally completed with the recording of his attendance, reports On Manorama.
The College has seven seats reserved for candidates from the All-India rank list, and Singh qualified for a seat in the College under the All-India Medical Entrance quota.
Unlike the other government medical colleges in the state, where classes started this week after the admission of students during the first round of counseling, the Kasaragod Medical College had to wait for approval from the National Medical Commission. The College received the approval and began enrolling students after conclusion of counseling.
The classes will begin on September 30, after completion of Phase 2 of allotment. The first batch students are currently provided temporary hostel facilities at Cherkkala.
While the second student under the All-India rank list is expected to join the College today, the authorities have said they cannot guarantee how long the new students will remain, adding that some students may opt to move to other colleges if they are allotted seats there.
