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TopicHealthcare workers

Topic: Healthcare workers

How a Mujahid group in Kerala is treating the terminally ill with Islamic dawa and activism

The book ‘Religion and Secularities Reconfiguring Islam In Contemporary India’ explores the relationship between Islam, civil society & the state.

Indian health workers take to ‘sugar baby’ dating due to wage cuts, low salaries, app claims

According to data by sugar dating app 'SeekingArrangement', Mumbai and Bengaluru made it to the top three cities with highest number of 'Sugar Babies' who were medical personnel.

Over 10,000 healthcare workers tested positive across 10 states, UTs since Covid struck

Doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, lab technicians and ASHA workers were among workforce that got infected. General practitioners & those in out-patient facilities were most vulnerable.

Face shields cut chances of Covid infection among health workers, finds JAMA study

The study, conducted by two doctors in Chennai, found that no health workers using face shields were infected, though it recommended further investigation.

Delhi, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tripura, Karnataka haven’t paid doctors’ salaries, govt tells SC

In an application by United Residents and Doctors' Association, the top court was also told that some hospitals are treating mandatory quarantine of doctors as period of leave.

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.

What coronavirus pandemic reveals about the pay gap between frontline workers

Women make up 70 per cent of all health and social-services staff globally, but they still earn 79 cents for every dollar a man makes.

First official figures on Covid among healthcare workers in India — 1,073 cases until 23 May

ICMR study on preventive effect of HCQ has broken the government’s silence so far on the prevalence of Covid-19 among healthcare workers.

Delhi’s Hindu Rao Hospital staffer dies of Covid, 78 employees test positive

The hospital was a Covid-19 facility. The 56-year-old staffer, who also had diabetes, had come to work till 9 June. Of the 78 workers, 33 have rejoined after recovery.

Oxford journal turns to Gita for Covid lessons, says healthcare workers are today’s Arjunas

An article in the peer-reviewed European Heart Journal said Krishna's teaching to Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita held lessons for the world tackling Covid today.

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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.