New Delhi ,March 7: The Centre is contemplating an amendment of the Indian Medical Council Act 1956 to make it mandatory for all doctors in the country to periodically renew their registration.
This is being done to check the incidence of fraudulent medical practitioners and also to routinely update the Indian Medical Register (IMR), which continues to carry the names of medical practitioners who are either long dead or have left the country. There are more than seven lakh names registered in the IMR. Sources in the health ministry said the Medical Council of India (MCI) would get additional funds to update the IMR on a regular basis.

Chennai/Mumbai,March 7: The overweening ambition of Mr Lalit Modi to further ratchet up the astronomical valuations of the Indian Premier League resulted in a hasty retreat on Sunday, without the sealed tenders even being opened. Mr Modi announced cancellation of the auction for two new franchises and relaxed key conditions for fresh bids on March 21 as dark games of subterfuge surfaced.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Reserve Bank of India governor Duvvuri Subbarao outside the RBI head office in Mumbai after the bank’s platinum jubilee function on Saturday. PHOTO: Amit Haralkar

New Delhi/Lucknow, March 6: A suspected terrorist belonging to the Indian Mujahideen outfit was arrested from Siddhartanagar on Friday by the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad.

Islamabad: India has not demanded the arrest of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed and the issue did not even figure in the foreign secretary-level talks in February, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Saturday.

New Delhi, March. 6: The Congress has killed three birds with one stone by pushing the controversial Women’s Reservation Bill. While it has isolated the Mandalite parties which have checked the Congress in the Hindi belt for over two decades,

Mumbai,  March 6: Having launched salvos against Sachin Tendulkar and Mukesh Ambani, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has now targeted Maharashtra governor K. Sankarnarayanan for his suggestion that Mumbai’s population growth cannot be

Kolkata, March 6: Industrialist G.P. Birla, the head of the GP-CK Birla Group, passed away at his residence late Friday night after a prolonged illness, family sources said here on Saturday. The 87-year-old G.P. Birla is survived by wife Nirmala, son C.K. Birla and daughter Lekha Poddar.

New Delhi, March 6: Air India has lined up a team of female pilots and cabin crew, engineers and flight dispatchers for several international and domestic flights, including the non-stop service from Mumbai to New York, to mark the centenary celebration of International Women’s Day on Monday.

Flowers and a card are seen placed close to the site where the body of three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa was found in Melbourne on Friday. PHOTO: AFP