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Topic: Doctors

NEP plans to integrate AYUSH & modern medicine, allopaths say it’ll produce ‘official quacks’

While AYUSH practitioners have welcomed the plan and said it will benefit allopaths too, health experts say plan must be based on scientific evidence.

India’s healthcare workers are the most vulnerable, but there is no framework for their health

The Modi government and several states put in place laws against harming healthcare professionals during the Covid crisis. But violence is just the tip of the iceberg.

US doctors do away with magazines in waiting rooms in another pandemic blow to print

Publications are grappling with people's fear that one can get Covid by touching them. To date, there is no evidence of transmission of the virus through print media.

More than 20,000 foreign medical graduates want to aid Covid fight, but govt won’t agree

Foreign medical graduates sent a letter to the government for a 'one-time' exemption from the bridge exam that allows them to practice in India.

‘Don’t shoot the messenger’: SC tells Delhi govt to withdraw cases against doctors

Supreme Court Wednesday asked the government and hospitals to stop harassing doctors for exposing the 'deplorable' state of govt-run hospitals.

Non-payment of salary to healthcare workers will now be an offence, Centre tells SC

Supreme Court has directed chief secretaries of all states, UTs to comply with central govt's order and ensure payments are made to healthcare workers.

Doctors at Delhi hospitals threaten to resign over no salaries, HC orders NDMC to pay up

The Delhi High Court took suo motu cognisance of the issue based on reports that senior and junior resident doctors at six hospitals didn't receive salaries from March onwards.

No salary for 3 months, doctors at Delhi’s Kasturba Hospital threaten to resign en masse

Resident doctors at Kasturba Hospital, run by North MCD, say it is becoming difficult to survive without salary. Hospital authorities cite lack of funds for non-payment.

‘Feel like criminals’: Why Mumbai doctors are angry over civic body’s strict Covid test rules

BMC guidelines say doctors have to physically check patients before prescribing tests, failing which they stand to lose their licence.

On my first day of Covid ICU duty, I bled in my PPE. Periods happen, even in a pandemic

On Menstrual Hygiene Day, we can’t ignore millions of Indian women and girls who still don’t have access to safe sanitation — even in Covid pandemic and lockdown.

On Camera

That one sentence from US central bank changed gold prices

Central bank communication now holds as much significance as central bank action. A single clause in a press conference can move markets more than a 25-basis-point adjustment.

New cess on ‘pan masala’ to fund national security and healthcare programmes

The Health Security Se National Security Cess Bill, 2025, explained. Oppn has attacked the proposed cess as 'a new financial burden' on the citizens.

After Op Sindoor, India goes in for more Heron Mk IIs; Israel frontrunner for mega MALE drones deal

Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.