Junior doctors agitating over RG Kar murder early Wednesday said they will continue their sit-in and not join duty, despite the state appointing Manoj Kumar Verma as the new Kolkata Police chief,......
Agitating junior doctors on Thursday submitted to chief secretary Manoj Pant a draft of the key points of their meeting with the West Bengal government last night and were awaiting the state's......
The second round of talks between junior doctors and officials of the West Bengal government failed to break the medics' strike over the RG Kar issue, following the state's refusal to give written......
Defining "modern medicine" for the first time, the National Medical Commission (NMC), in its code of conduct, has introduced a major change, proposing the use of "Med Dr" as a prefix for those......
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Amazon India is repositioning itself as a comprehensive business partner rather than just an e-commerce platform, slashing seller fees and introducing artificial intelligence-powered tools ahead of......
The government further defended its move to introduce fixed-term employment, insisting that the present system of hiring workers through contractors is exploitative. Illustration: Dominic......
In a fast evolving health care industry, expect some pain before real gains, says Anjuli Bhargava. The other day I woke up to a story in The Times of India on how hospitals were pushing costlier......
Softening the demonetisation blow, the Budget for 2017-18 on Wednesday halved the tax to 5 per cent on incomes up to Rs 500,000 but proposed a new surcharge of 10 per cent on incomes between Rs 50......
England has submitted a formal complaint and demanded scrapping of the umpire decision referral system after the Daryl Harper controversy in South Africa. The big issue surrounds Harper's......
After asserting that Mark Benson left the Australia-West Indies Test series mid-way on purely health reasons, the ICC on Tuesday admitted that "pressure" played a part in influencing the English......
Indian cricket ace Sachin Tendulkar did not find the umpiring referral system fool-proof when he encountered it last year. But according to ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat, the system has......
India's temperamental spinner Harbhajan Singh wants the umpire referral system to be implemented in one-dayers also to avoid dubious umpiring decisions like the ones Sachin Tendulkar got in the......
West Indies cricket captain Chris Gayle wants the ICC's referral system for umpiring decision abolished as he feels it undermines the authority of on-field officials. His call for scrapping the......