The corporate hospital sector of the country is all set to take away a significant share of the tertiary healthcare service business from individual private healthcare providers by 2010.
Reliance Industries, the country's largest private oil company, is seeking oil and gas fields in Kurdistan.
Pharmaceutical major Wockhardt is looking at foraying into Japan either through exports or by setting up a manufacturing base.
In an attempt to hold on to its exploration blocks in the Krishna-Godavari basin, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation is in talks with British Gas (BG) and British Petroleum (BP) for joint exploration in four offshore blocks in the region.
Cheap bulk drug imports from China may soon post a threat to the Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) domestic bulk drug industry.
The proposal will help India, one of the most cost-effective location for pharmaceutical production, to increase its growing generic exports multifold in a hassle-free regulatory environment.
Fortis Healthcare Limited is close to picking up a majority stake in Naresh Trehan's upcoming Medicity project in Gurgaon, with the contours of the agreement expected to be finalised within a month.
Small scale drug makers fear that they may have to shell out anything between Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million) to Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) for acquiring land and equipment as mandated by the new GLP.
The central government is likely to prescribe a special rate of abatement on the retail prices of drugs for calculation of excise duty.
Oil marketing companies together would have to make investments of a few hundred crores of rupees to create the facilities that would enable them to blend ethanol in petrol.
While the 5 per cent ethanol blended petrol programme has missed three deadlines
The Denmark-based Widex Aps, a leader in digital hearing aids, has big plans for India through its joint venture called Widex India.