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Non-starter: Centre's new legal shield for health workers after Kolkata rape

The Morning Standard

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May 05, 2025

THE Centre had proposed a model state law to protect healthcare workers following the nationwide protests after the rape and murder of a trainee postgraduate student in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.

- KAVITA BAJELI-DATT @ New Delhi

Non-starter: Centre's new legal shield for health workers after Kolkata rape

However, despite the government's proposal, the Union Home Ministry and the Union Health Ministry are yet to hold a meeting to discuss the modalities of the law.

This comes as the Centre has retracted from its earlier proposal of a separate central law to deal with offences against healthcare professionals in 2019. Kerala-based RTI activist Dr K V Babu, who has been pursuing the issue, said the Home Ministry has acknowledged in the RTI that the model state law was proposed last year.

However, since the proposal was made in September, he said that both the ministries seem clueless about its status.

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ISRAELI strikes killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, health officials said, as Israel ramps up its offensive there and urges Palestinians to leave.

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Bomb threat mails send over 100 city schools into a tizzy

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IN the sprawling scroll of India’s story, few figures have fused longevity with luminosity, persistence with power, endurance with epochal impact quite like Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Till the Cows Come Home

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Huge rate cuts on stadium booking to boost concerts, live events in city

AFTER losing out major concerts and cultural shows to cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Gurugram for years, largely due to steep stadium-booking charges, the Delhi government on Saturday announced a substantial cut in venue rates, a move officials and industry leaders hailed as “historic.”

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Guardians of the Ecological Cycle

The sun was slipping down the horizon when a pair of big ears, winglike, appeared on the crest of the hill.

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Trump says US sinks 3rd drug-smuggling boat this month

DONALD Trump said on Friday the US military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month.

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Tejashwi raises Bihar pitch, says won't contest polls without a CM face

RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Saturday said the Grand Alliance (GA) will not contest Bihar Assembly elections without a CM face, mounting pressure on the partners.

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1 min

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