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Permitting Ayurveda doctors to conduct surgery a compromise with health: IMA

Indian Medical Association (IMA) observed a nationwide no-demonstration strike on Friday to oppose the central government's move to allow Ayurveda doctors to perform surgery. Demanding withdrawal of the notification allowing Ayurveda postgraduates to perform modern medicine surgery, the IMA called for the withdrawal of all non-essential non-COVID services between 6 am and 6 pm today.

 

Dr Rajan Sharma, national president of IMA, said that allowing Ayurveda postgraduates to perform surgery is a "blatant attempt" to "corrupt" the healthcare system of the country.

 

"It takes years and years to become a doctor. With mixopaths what are we heading for? It's a failure when nations compromise with health," said Dr Sharma. He stated that the IMA is not against "any sort of pathy", but the mixing up of disciplines. "We are not against any sort of pathy be it Ayurveda, Unani, Homeopathy. We are proud of our national heritage and richness but let it coexist with modern medicine. All we demand is not to mix the disciplines. It will also mean the end of pure Ayurveda," he added.

 

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Doctors of AIIMS, other hospitals join IMA call for protest with black ribbons

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West Bengal Governor sends report to Centre on law and order, asks Mamata not to play with fire

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar Friday said he has sent a report to the Centre in the backdrop of the violent attack on the convoy of BJP chief J P Nadda, and castigated Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the deteriorating law and order situation. Pulling her up for her repeated remarks calling the BJP a party of outsiders, Dhankhar asked her to desist from such politics as would weaken the national fabric. He said it is shameful that the attack on Nadda occurred on International Human Rights Day.

 

"I have sent my report to the central government whose contents cannot be shared on account of propriety," he told a press conference at Raj Bhawan. He alleged the violators of law in Bengal have the protection of police and administration and any resistance by the opposition is quelled.

 

"The governor is not a post office...he will not fidddle around in Raj Bhawan when human rights are being violated," he said, and asserted "the governor will vindicate his oath, come what may."

 

It is the duty of the governor to protect the Constitution, he said.

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Violators of law in Bengal have protection of police and administration: WB Guv Jagdeep Dhankhar

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CM Mamata Banerjee should apologise for comments she made yesterday (over attack on J P Nadda's convoy): Guv Jagdeep Dhankhar

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Obama reunion? Biden fills Cabinet with former WH leaders

President-elect Joe Biden is getting the old gang back together. Increasingly deep into the process of selecting Cabinet members and other senior staff, the incoming Biden administration has a distinctly Obama feel.

 

There's Denis McDonough, former President Barack Obama's chief of staff who Biden announced on Thursday would be nominated as the secretary of veterans affairs.

 

Susan Rice, Obama's former national security adviser, was named the director of Biden's White House Domestic Policy Council.

 

That's on top of Biden already tapping Obama's agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, to head the department once again, former Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as special envoy on climate and Kerry's Obama-era deputy Antony Blinken to lead the State Department.

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Law and Order Situation in West Bengal Continuously Worsening for Long, Says Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar

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Uttarakhand: Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat flags off electric buses by Dehradun Smart City Limited in the city

Uttarakhand: Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat flags off electric buses by Dehradun Smart City Limited in the city.

 

“We are planning to start 30 such buses in this financial year,” he says.

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Madhya Pradesh: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called an emergency meeting of senior officers at today, to discuss growing drug menace

Madhya Pradesh: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called an emergency meeting of senior officers at today, to discuss strategies to curb the growing drug menace in the state