300 Doctors Quit In Bengal, Centre Blames Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA:  The Calcutta High Court on Friday refused to intervene in the ongoing doctors’ strike in West Bengal and advised the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government in the state to persuade the medical practitioners to re-join work. As many as 300 doctors, 119 from North Bengal Medical College & Hospital, Darjeeling, alone have resigned over violence against doctors in the state.Across the country, medical practitioners took out protest marches and held sit-in agitations in solidarity with West Bengal doctors. Meanwhile, doctors of AIIMS Delhi on Saturday called off their protest in solidarity…

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Time to Think: Need for ‘Medical Response Teams’ as International Assistance during Catastrophic Earthquakes

By: Dr. Kumar Raka, Editor-ICN & Rebecca Brindza, Editor-ICN International (Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – George Santayana) Tel Aviv: Earthquakes are one of the most devastating forms of natural disaster. They usually strike without warning, produce widespread damage, and can cause massive loss of life. The recent quakes that struck Haiti (2010), Japan (2011), Nepal (2015) and Iran & Iraq (2017) showed that temblors of sufficient magnitude can wreak havoc. The catastrophic situation often press demand for international assistance. There have been widespread debates in…

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Calcium 3.0

By: Dr. Ameya Tripathi, Associate Editor-ICN Hypocalcemia-Part 1 LUCKNOW: Low calcium level in our body can lead to different problems. As discussed earlier we know that calcium is very important for our day to day functions. But when its level fall below the optimum level its known as deficiency of calcium. This calcium deficiency is known as “Hypocalcemia”. Hypocalcaemia is a potentially life threatening biochemical abnormality that carries risks for serious errors in diagnosis and treatment. Hypocalcaemia is low calcium levels in the blood serum. The normal range is 2.1–2.6 mmol/L…

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Excellence with G.O.P.T.A.© Series: Part 79 (Align the stream of subjects with chosen career)

By: Dr. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group (In some of the past articles, we knew about some strategies and mindset for preparation of examinations and good practices during & after examinations. Today, we will know how to align the stream of subjects with chosen career.)   ALIGN THE STREAM OF SUBJECTS WITH CHOSEN CAREER NOIDA: These days a lot of confusion prevails in the minds of parents and children regarding choosing the right career and stream in class 11-12. This confusion can be bifurcated in two parts; first…

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Enhance your Lifestyle with NLP+ © Series: Part 42

By: Shantanu Das Sharma, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group Quick recap of what we have covered in Part 41 WAY TO REPLICATE ANYONE’S SUCCESS BLUEPRINT Ineffective Memory Strategy Effective Memory Strategy Modeling the Success Blueprint Beliefs of Highly Effective Communicators Beliefs of Successful Entrepreneurs Our Strategies: Our Mental Roadmap KOLKATA: So what is a mental strategy? It is a specific sequence of internal and external experiences we run in our brain in order to produce a specific outcome. It is what a person does in his brain that produces a…

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The Undettered Spirit of Kerala People

By: Klinsa Kurien, Bureau Chief-ICN Kerala It’s raining monsoons in Kerala. Tear shaped raindrops adorn the lovely blue sky. This reminds me of a beautiful nursery rhyme called “I hear thunder, I hear thunder. Hark, don’t you? Hark don’t you? Pitter Patter rain drops, pitter patter drain drops. I’m wet through, so are you”. It is such a pleasant feeling when rain drops touch the dry and moisture less earth and is a welcome feeling for all the people. The other wise parched earth is filled with water so pure that…

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