Air Force to open MEC in Mumbai
The Indian Air Force will shortly open a Medical Evaluation Centre at the Air India Complex in Mumbai, to be headed by an Aerospace Medicine expert of the Indian Air Force, DHNS reports from Bangalore.

Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal F H Major announced this here on Wednesday while interacting with the media on the sidelines of the 47th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine.

The centre is being opened to accommodate the booming civil aviation sector. The Medical Evaluation Centre will issue Class I certification required for Civil Pilot Licenses and Airline Transport Pilot Licenses. Currently there are such centres at Bangalore, New Delhi and Jorat (Assam).

Students kicked out for ragging
Five senior students of a private  engineering college in Thrissur district were suspended on Wednesday on charges of ragging a new entrant, reports PTI from Thrissur. According to officials of the Vidya Academy of Science and Technology, the victim, a civil engineering student, was taken to a toilet and humiliated by his seniors on October 18.

Aamir denied brother's custody
Bollywood star Aamir Khan was denied the custody of his actor-brother Faisal with a local court on Wednesday ordering that the ailing sibling be under the care of their father for one month and treated for his mental ailment, PTI reports from Mumbai.

A Magistrate's court while granting Faisal's custody to his father Tahir Hussain, directed the actor to report to the Khar police station every alternate day. The court also directed Faisal to appear before it at the end of next month and to take the treatment recommended by the psychiatry doctors of the J J Hospital in south Mumbai. The doctors in a report submitted to the court yesterday said Faisal was suffering from schizo-affective psychosis and recommended that his custody be given to a "responsible family member" who would ensure he received treatment.

Doctor parents of boy surgeon lose license
The Tamil Nadu Medical Council has suspended the medical license of a doctor couple for one year, on Wednesday. The couple had allowed their 15-year-old son to perform a Caesarean section on an expectant mother at their clinic in Manapparai near Thanjavur, DHNS reports from Chennai.

The general council of the Tamil Nadu Medical Council erased the registration of Dr K Murugesan and Dr Gandhimathi for a period of one year based on the findings of a fact-finding team.