Doctors end strike after SC appeal, but not in Bengal

The protests by resident doctors at government hospitals in several states across the country ended on Thursday as major doctors' associations called off their 11-day strike over the rape-murder of......

Can't pretend all is fine: TMC's Sukhendu Sekhar on protests

Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy may have avoided further confrontation with his party's government in West Bengal after deleting a social media post on the alleged rape and murder of a......

SC forms task force to devise safety protocol for medics

Observing that the safety and well-being of doctors is a matter of national interest, the Supreme Court on Tuesday constituted a 10-member National Task Force (NTF) to formulate a protocol for......

Escort to female health staffers among security norms for central hospitals

The Union health ministry on Monday issued a list of security measures to be implemented at all central government hospitals which include strict monitoring of the entry and exit and providing......

Job Quotas In Private Sector?

Rather than a blind reproduction of the government template, a more productive way of enforcing affirmative action in the private sector could be to emulate an American model, suggests Kanika......

'Economy is Recovering Well'

'Even if there is a third wave or a fourth wave, it is hard to see the economy will suffer like that (during the first wave).' IMAGE: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das addresses the media after the......

Waiting for Cabinet approval, FM on cryptocurrency bill

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said she is awaiting an approval from the Cabinet on bill on cryptocurrency as the proposed legislation is before it. Illustration: Uttam......

For India's cannabis industry the grass could be greener

'The government wants farmers to diversify from rice and wheat, and create another green revolution. Cannabis can play a big part in that' For long, cannabis has been a contested territory in......