'Captain Haneef-ud-din, pulling his sinewy body forward, crawled, rifle in hand, in the snow on 6 June 1999. He died on this craggy mountainside exactly two years after he had passed out of the IMA...'
They say new rules that make over-billing by private hospitals a criminal offence will hurt their ability to treat patients properly, says Subir Roy.
Arguing that it was very difficult to post MBBS doctors in rural areas, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said the proposed Bachelor of Rural Health course was targeted at areas where only nurses and midwives were available and no doctor was willing to go.
A plough protects the crew as it clears a path through a minefield. It can rip devices out the ground.
A 65-year-old Indian-Amercan doctor, who went to Haiti to attend an IMA World Health's meeting two days before the killer earthquake, had a miraculous escape from beneath tons of rubble where she was buried for 50 hours in a collapsed Port-au-Prince hotel. A slightly-bruised but traumatized Sarla Chand came back home to Teaneck, New Jersey,on Saturday night.
Indian executives are different in leadership styles and emotional competencies compared to their North American counterparts, but they have proved to be as strategic in terms of decision-making and thinking styles, research firm International Market Assessment (IMA) said in a study.
Reader Pradeep Hariharan sent us a picture of Guillermo Vilas from the USA.
The Patna police has detained Anil Kumar, nephew of Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, for manhandling former Indian Medical Association president Dr Ajay Kumar last night. The police said that Anil Kumar was taken into custody for allegedly trying to abduct noted urologist and former IMA president Dr Ajay Kumar near the Patna zoo, close to the Sachivalaya police station, late on Monday night. The police also seized an Ambassador car from the spot.
Around half of private hospitals and most of government hospitals in the country will have to close down in the next five years because of an acute shortage of nurses.
As the border standoff entered the sixth month, an early resolution to the row appeared dim with close to 100,000 Indian and Chinese troops remaining deployed in the high-altitude region and showing readiness for a long-haul. There is no official word on the talks yet but sources said the agenda was to finalise a roadmap for disengagement of troops from all the friction points.
A recent report by the parliamentary standing committee on health and family planning pulled no punches on the abysmal state and poor functioning of the Medical Council of India.
'Now, the government will have to ensure even stronger surveillance to curb the infection but if that will be done is something to be observed'
Reader Mohd. Ata ur Rahman Sofi sent us a picture of Sania Mirza from Hyderabad.
'I was no one. I am here today because I am a proud soldier of the Indian Army,' says Captain Mohammed Quamrul Zaman.
The former captain returned to a warm welcome at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Friday morning.
Joy Basu, chief financial officer of rediff.com, has been named the winner in the category of medium-sized businesses in the 6th Annual CFO Awards 2006.
The actor is looking far from fit, after promising to go gymming.
Reader Nishchal Agarwal met Koneru Humpy in Doha.
The students also received support from the Indian Medical Association, which has called for a daylong closure of health services.
'We are warning that if you get these 3.5 lakh additional non-medical people with licence, our infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate will deteriorate'.
Reader Melody Laila sent us a picture of Rahul Dravid from Mumbai.
The local administration in Nagpur has decided to send 17 medical teams to assist in relief operations in flood-hit areas of Maharashtra.
The Union health minister said of the total active COVID-19 cases in the country, 1.5 per cent are on oxygen support and 2.34 per cent are in ICUs.
A soldier, who allegedly scripted his own death at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in 2003 to indulge in espionage, will be brought to Dehradun.
The decision followed the arrest of some accused in the murder of a surgeon N K Agarwal and the return of an abducted doctor, Nagendra Prasad, on Wednesday.
A total of 687 cadets were inducted into the Indian Army as officers on Saturday after a passing-out parade at the prestigious Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.
The BJP will need to win at least six seats to remain in power.
The International Cricket Council is likely to incorporate air pollution in its 'Playing Conditions' clause, having taken a serious note of the plight of Sri Lankan cricketers during the recently-concluded Test match against India in New Delhi.
Former AIIMS director Dr S K Kacker discusses the doctors' agitation in Maharashtra and West Bengal's crackdown on private hospitals with Veenu Sandhu.
'It is sad that Kerala had so many Covid patients which is primarily due to the mismanagement of the Left government.' 'The technical committee was full of CPI-M leaders who happen to have medical degrees with no experience in public health.' 'They were advising the CM and we are paying for those mistakes.'
'Our biggest problem has been keeping this country together.' 'Nation building is never easy. It is a very difficult task.' 'Even 70 years is not too long a time.'
The experts agreed that the lockdown has helped in slowing down spread of the virus but insisted that the situation has not reached a plateau and that there was an urgent need to upgrade healthcare facilities to deal with the crisis.
A flavour-of-the-season approach does not work in investing, suggests Deepesh Raghaw.
The government, every year, hides behind the mystery of the disease, linking it with litchis, and does not confess malnutrition as the prime cause, points out Mohammad Sajjad.
