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GoM pitch to improve health sector — 1-yr tax holiday for private hospitals, yoga in schools

The Group of Ministers on health has also urged the govt to come up with some regulations on population control as creating ‘health infrastructure for a large population is an uphill task’.

Only 14% Indians willing to visit AYUSH doctors for dental surgery, survey finds

The LocalCircles survey, with 28,000 respondents, comes weeks after a govt notification listing 58 surgeries Ayurveda practitioners can perform.

AYUSH doctors can only prescribe drugs as immunity booster, not Covid cure, govt tells SC

The government also said AYUSH doctors should not advertise any drug as cure for Covid-19. It, however, emphasised the benefits of traditional Ayurveda practices.

AYUSH scientists slam IMA, ask why HCQ is used for Covid despite no evidence of its efficacy

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

AYUSH ministry starts Jan Andolan campaign to promote Covid appropriate behaviour

To make the campaign a success, partnerships are being formed among the ministry's attached and subordinate offices and PSUs with private sector industry and academia.

AYUSH scientists slam IMA for calling their systems ‘unscientific’, question HCQ & remdesivir

Doctors’ body had questioned health minister for promoting AYUSH, but AYUSH scientists ask why HCQ was used despite no evidence that it’s effective.

How many of your colleagues used Ayurveda to treat Covid, IMA asks Harsh Vardhan

Questioning the health minister’s move to promote alternative medicines for Covid patients, IMA says he is ‘inflicting a fraud on nation & gullible patients by calling placebos as drugs’.

Need more studies to test Ayurveda on severe Covid patients, AYUSH staff say in new paper

Published in peer-reviewed Journal of Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, the paper flags the fact that only 2 clinical trials studying Covid treatment by Ayurveda include severe patients.

Govt wants to merge allopathy, homoeopathy, Ayurveda into one health system, plans 2030 launch

The idea — ‘One Nation, One Health System’ — has already appeared in Modi govt’s new health and education policies, and a committee has been formed to study its implementation.

Incorrect to call Ayurveda, homoeopathy alternative medicine for Covid — top AYUSH official

Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, chairman of AYUSH R&D Task Force on Covid-19, advocates integrating measures from Ayurveda & Yoga in the standard of care to prevent & treat Covid.

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.