Police has launched investigations to ascertain reason for the alleged suicide.
'If government thinks that they can reduce the shortage of surgeons available in rural areas by promoting mixopathy, then the consequences will be disastrous.'
Dr Pankaj Gupta along with his wife Subha was abducted near Barachatti on the Grand Trunk Road in Gaya on Friday evening.
Doctors said the decision was a medical blunder.
The suspended Congress MLA made it clear he would not fly to Mumbai or Delhi, unlike the other disgruntled MLAs who have camped in a Mumbai hotel.
Dr Bhupendra Sharma will now take over as the nodal officer of pediatric department.
Alastair Cook's captaincy is "negative" and "boring", and could cost England the Ashes if the hosts lift their game, according to former Australia spinner Shane Warne.
'The Ayush minister (Shripad Yesso Naik) himself was suffering from COVID-19 and got treated in a modern hospital.'
Nearly 300 teachers of a medical college on Monday submitted their resignation to Uttar Pradesh government, even as the agitation by doctors against arrest of 24 junior doctors entered the fourth day.
As cases of 'black fungus' among COVID-19 patients in the country rise to cross 7,000, the Centre on Thursday urged all states and union territories to declare it as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act to ensure mandatory surveillance to tackle the 'new challenge'.
Condoling the death of the gangrape victim, the Indian Medical Association on Saturday questioned the airlifting of the 23-year-old victim to Singapore for advanced treatment and wanted to know whether hospitals in India lack infrastructure to treat such patients.
United States international Robbie Rogers has said it is 'impossible' to remain in soccer after publicly declaring your homosexuality.
The country has been registering over 70,000 cases for the last four days.
Vinod Rai, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India till May and probably the most talked-about government official in the last few years, participated in a Live Chat with readers of Rediff.com on Friday.
The move came after a three-member inquiry panel of the government submitted its final report to Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who described the incident as 'not acceptable'.
The decision was taken after a meeting of the Max Healtcare authorities in connection with the incident.
'It's doubtful if serving defence personnel and their families will retain their faith in this government if such gimmicks allowing political considerations to over-ride security issues are allowed to prevail,' warns Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
Proving the adage that true love will surmount all odds, the Indian Army has decided to relieve a Major in the Corps of Signals to enable him marry his Sri Lankan girlfriend subject to the condition that he refunds the entire cost of his training in IMA and furnish his marriage certificate.
'The biggest gainers under this scheme would be insurance companies.' 'If the government is going to route the payments through the insurance companies, these companies will be making nearly 30 per cent of the money.' 'For instance, if the government is paying Rs 100, then Rs 30 will go to these insurance companies.' 'Only Rs 70 will be available for expenditure that will be incurred by the hospitals.'
The 'obey first culture' of the armed forces can be slightly stifling but for those who brave the odds, the uniformed life still remains an attractive option.
'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...'
The movie showcases some of the worst acting in recent years.
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the national soccer team from international competition for the next two years following their poor performance in the World Cup, a senior adviser said on Wednesday.
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.
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.
'I was no one. I am here today because I am a proud soldier of the Indian Army,' says Captain Mohammed Quamrul Zaman.
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.
'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'
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reader Pradeep Hariharan sent us a picture of Guillermo Vilas from the USA.
'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'.
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.
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.
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