Gambling levy could raise £100m for NHS treatment
The UK government is proposing gambling companies contribute 1% a year of what they make. Source link
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Proposal to raise minimum alcohol price to 65p in Scotland
The party’s health spokesman, Dr Sandesh Gulhane, said: “Alcohol deaths are at their highest level since 2008 on the SNP’s watch and it is clear their blanket approach to tackling this crisis is simply not working, or supporting those who most need help with alcohol addiction.” Source link
Telangana govt. struggling to raise financial resources to meet commitments in run-up to Assembly elections
The State government is exploring ways to raise financial resources to fulfil its commitments like crop loan waiver in the run-up to the Assembly elections, the schedule for which is likely to be issued early next month. Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao, during a meeting with senior officials and Ministers on August 2, had directed them … Read more
Raise Chinese cartographic aggression at G-20 summit, Congress MLA from Arunachal Pradesh urges PM Modi
Ninong Ering. File. | Photo Credit: Leju Kamal GUWAHATI A Congress MLA from Arunachal Pradesh has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to raise the issue of the “Chinese cartographic aggression” with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the upcoming G-20 summit in New Delhi. In a letter to the Prime Minister on August 29, Ninong Ering … Read more
Health experts ‘must raise alarm on AI threats’ – ET HealthWorld
Paris: Health professionals must warn the world about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), a group of academics wrote on Wednesday, as clamours grow for work on the technology to be halted. The academics wrote in the BMJ Global Health journal that time was running out to take action because corporations, the military and governments … Read more
Palaniswami asks DMK MPs, allies to raise issue of auction of three lignite blocks in Parliament
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami | Photo Credit: PTI The AIADMK’s general secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday, called upon Members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to the DMK and its allies to raise in Parliament, the matter of the Centre’s move to auction three lignite blocks of the State. Addressing journalists outside the Assembly … Read more
Not happy as MLA, could raise people’s issues more earlier, says Assam MLA Akhil Gogoi
Assam MLA Akhil Gogoi, who made history by winning Assembly polls from jail in 2021, on March 12, 2023 said he is not happy being a legislator compared to his activism days, when the former peasant leader could raise “people’s issues” more “directly and strongly”. The first-time MLA from Sibsagar constituency also claimed that he … Read more
TMC to raise risk exposure of LIC and SBI, price rise, unemployment in Parliament: Derek O’Brien
TMC MP Derek O’Brien speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the first phase of the Budget Session of Parliament in New Delhi on February 7, 2023. File | Photo Credit: PTI The TMC will raise in Parliament issues such as LIC and SBI’s risk exposure, price rise of essential commodities, unemployment and “misuse” of central … Read more
Karnataka’s sex workers raise pitch to take their successful telemedicine-based healthcare service national – ET HealthWorld
Bengaluru: The ‘Phone Maadu‘ initiative that helped sex workers in parts of Karnataka get easy access to doctor and quality health care during COVID-19 times without being stigmatised and ensuring anonymity is now sought to be scaled up further leveraging technology and expanded to benefit other marginalised sections. ‘Phone Maadu’ (or Phonehealth Clinic) is a … Read more
Ex-servicemen raise concern as empanelled hospitals withdraw from ECHS
Ex-servicemen and their dependents receiving specialty medical treatment under Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) have raised concerns over several empanelled hospitals withdrawing from the scheme, while other hospitals are refusing to accept the contracts offered by the government. Ex-Servicemen Grievances Redressal Cell Kerala has written to the Prime Minister, Defence Minister, Chief of Defence Staff, … Read more