Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam, which had snapped ties with Pattali Makkal Katchi two months ago, on Sunday invited the S Ramadoss-led party back in the alliance, a move supported by senior Congress leader P Chidambaram.Karunanidhi, in an interview, said the Democratic Progressive Alliance in the state would have been stronger if the PMK continued in the alliance but stressed that the alliance had not been weakened due to its ouster.
Talking to media persons in Chennai after chairing the party's emergent administrative committee meeting, which was attended by six parliamentarians and 18 legislators, PMK founder-leader Dr S Ramadoss said though different views were expressed in the meeting, the party had decided to renew talks with the DMK to sort the issue.
'The BJP will be the ruling party.'
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss has sent a communication to Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh to take appropriate measures to check this increasing trend in all nniversities and educational institutions.
A first look on the heatlh minister Dr A Ramadoss examaning a patient.
T D Dogra, who heads Forensic Medicines and Toxicology Department and is next to Venugopal in seniority, was appointed AIIMS' acting chief.
However, the tilting factor still remains: Can the rivalling 'Modi brand' of 'soft Hindutva' and 'hard-sell nationalism' garner more votes for the NDA in Tamil Nadu, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
The 27 per cent quota for the Other Backward Classes will be implemented in Central government-run medical institutes over a period of two years, with 18 per cent seats reserved for students from backward castes, in this academic session. The institutes include the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, PGI, Chandigarh, JIPMER, Puducherry, Ram Manohar Lohia and Lady Hardinge Medical Colleges in Delhi.
A delegation led by Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Dr Hatem El Gabali met Union Minister of Health Anbumani Ramadoss on Wednesday and discussed about the reforms in health care and pharmaceutical sector in both the countries. Both sides will work in the field of combating infection, reform in health sector, transfer of vaccine technology and Information Technology area.
China and India, the world's two most populous nations, have initiated discussions on stabilising the global population, Beijing's top official on family planning said in Beijing on Tuesday.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has lost the battle to make depiction of skull and cross-bones on all tobacco products mandatory with Cabinet on Friday declaring it would be optional.
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre on a petition by sacked All India Institute of Medical Science chief P Venugopal, challenging the controversial law fixing 65 years as the superannuation age for the post of the institute's director.
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who inaugurated the new Rs 24.70 crore unit with an added capacity of 283 million pieces to the plant's exisisting capacity, said the public sector unit with production facilities here and Belgaum with an annual production capciaty of 1.32 billion condoms already possessed ten per cent of the global share.
Trauma care services in India will soon get a facelift with the government proposing to set up special facilities along the country's highways.
"Though in the beginning, the fine would be only Rs 200, we will try to amend the act in the future, after which the fine can be increased to Rs 1,000 and the employer can also be fined if somebody is found smoking within the office premises," Ramadoss said, inaugurating a tobacco workshop in New Delhi. Apart from this, the minister said the Government has also issued notifications to make pictorial warnings compulsory on all tobacco products from December one.
In democracy, peaceful agitations and expressing opposition in a peaceful way were basic rights and in such circumstances, there should be a consensus on banning bandhs and general strikes in the country after a public debate, he said.
The government on Monday ruled out amending abortion laws in consideration of cases like that of Niketa Mehta, who wanted to terminate her 26-week pregnancy as the child would be born with a congenital heart defect."As it is today, going by just one case, I do not think the law can be amended," Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said."We sympathise with her case and would discuss all other avenues," he said.
The direction came from Justice S Ravinder Bhatt who also apparently disapproved of the running battle between the minister and the eminent cardiac surgeon telling them, "You are using the court as a tool, which I won't allow."
Concerned over reports of pesticides in soft drinks, the government on Thursday said it was working on comprehensive standard formula for testing pesticide contents in such beverages.
The draft content code also plans to restrict TV channels from stereotyping women as passive or submissive so as to promote or glorify their subordinate or secondary role in the society.
The government on Friday announced that all places of work in the country will be declared smoke free and those found flouting the law will be strictly punished.
The campaign was started in the wake of government's decision to withhold the salaries of doctors who participated in the anti-reservation strike last month.
Private hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centres will soon require mandatory registration with the government.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday said the Centre would enact legislation to eradicate discrimination against HIV/AIDS-affected people in the country.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan sought the reply as both AIIMS and Venugopal filed their appeals against the High Court order.
Three containers with about 65 tonnes of wastes were found by Kerala Pollution Control Board officials to contain prohibited municipal wastes from New York including plastic and biodegradable substances as well as hospital wastes, sanitary pads and surgical gloves. A shocked Board has recommended to the Customs authorities that the shipments be sent back to the place of origin.
The SLP filed by AIIMS assailed the judgement on the ground that the High Court had committed a grave error by declaring that there was no upper age limit for the director.
'People should know smoking is a huge killer and the cause of 10 per cent of all deaths in India. A male cigarette smoker will lose 10 years of his life compared to a non-smoker. A female beedi smoker will lose 8 years of life while a male beedi smoker will die about 6 years earlier,' says Dr Prabhat Jha, Director, Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto, and the principal investigator of the study on smoking and death in India.
'Reliance Fresh will break the backbone of the rural economy,' says PMK leader Dr S Ramadoss.
The Centre on Tuesday allayed fears of bird flu spreading to human beings in West Bengal, saying the random testing of people in the affected areas has been carried out and all such samples have tested negative.
'Tobacco Kills/Smoking Kills' -- such health warnings would be mandatory on all tobacco products soon failing which the sellers would attract stringent penalty including imprisonment.\n\n
The Scientific Advisory Council briefed the PM about the state of science in the country.
Singh received the letter on Saturday from AIIMS Administration Officer R K Dabral stating that 'the re-examination will not be counted as an attempt nor it will be quoted as precedence in future.'
With losses mounting in health insurance portfolio due to higher claims, Oriental Insurance Company is in the process of hiking premium rates for its Individual Mediclaim Policy by upto 30 per cent for people in the higher age group.
The Madras high court on Tuesday rejected a plea from mining giant Vedanta to order reopening of its Sterlite copper unit at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.
The plane, also carrying the AIDS symbol, on Friday landed in New Delhi with a group of AIDS-affected children on the eve of World AIDS Day.
One of the hot discussion at the meeting will be the alleged irregular appointment and subsequent promotion of 164 faculty members.
The IMA says this move will 'dilute' the standards of medical education.
Kerala has not yet recieved any details of the package announced by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss for prevention of diseases like chikungunya, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said on Tuesday.
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