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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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Topic: Health Ministry

Health ministry to push bill seeking upto 10-year jail term for assaulting on-duty doctors

The health ministry is working on a draft legislation that seeks to penalise those assaulting on-duty doctors and is looking to introduced it in the winter Parliament session beginning next week.

Modi govt mulling options to enforce ban on e-cigarettes & e-nicotine flavoured hookah

The government is planning options to ban such smoking devices if it fails to get a reprieve from the Delhi High Court, which had earlier stayed its order to ban such products. 

Kerala secures top spot in Niti Aayog’s second Health Index, UP & Bihar rank lowest

The Health Index is a composite score incorporating 23 indicators covering key aspects of health sector performance with major weightage to the outcomes.

‘Noise prevails’ in Lok Sabha, and Amit Shah finds his ‘right-hand man’

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Harsh Vardhan, the good doctor returns with Modi’s renewed trust to roll out Ayushman Bharat

In his last short stint as health minister, he had courted trouble for his harsh steps against tobacco firms.

Yoga for diabetes & ayurveda for pregnant women: What Ayushman Bharat has in store

AYUSH Ministry has presented a detailed proposal to health ministry, seeking alternative treatments at health centres envisaged under Ayushman Bharat.

Shaken by J&J faulty implants, govt to regulate eight more medical devices

According to the Union Health Ministry's internal estimates, over 80 per cent of the Indian medical device market is unregulated.

How many benefitted from Modi govt’s maternal healthcare scheme? Minister, ministry differ

Junior health minister Ashwini Choubey and the NHM, which oversees the project, are far apart on the numbers for 2 of the last 3 years.

More than 4,500 test positive for swine flu while death toll touches 169

With the numbers going up, the health ministry recently held a meeting with the states and asked them to strengthen their surveillance for early detection. 

Modi govt’s rule change has left 6 top health ministry posts vacant, some for 2 years

The posts in Directorate General of Health Services are responsible for overseeing eradication of diseases and working of premier hospitals in Delhi. 

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.