The key person behind the development of the Electronic Voting Machine and an eminent writer, S Rangarajan alias Sujatha, has died.
A fresh analysis of volcanic glass collected during the Apollo missions in the 1970s has revealed that the Moon's parched surface has water hidden beneath it, a major finding that dispels the notion that the Moon is dry.
Insurance companies are banking in on health insurance, as it promises to be Rs 25,000-cr industry by 2010.
Close to completing six decades in healthcare delivery, the Manipal Healthcare Group had a modest beginning with the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore
Company in talks with Reliance Capital, Apollo Pharmacy to offer new services at outlets.
The 80-year-old Lok Sabha parliamentarian has been suffering from cancer and has been under intensive care for the past one week.
With an eye to the large and growing market for their products, Indian auto component and tyre companies are making a beeline to set shop in Europe (especially Eastern Europe). Just last month Apollo Tyres announced that it was setting up a euro 200 million green field venture outside Hungary. And Delhi based Amtek Auto will set up a production base which will come in to operation in 2009 in Romania.
Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar, who was admitted to a local private hospital with a chest infection is feeling better, the team management said on Wednesday.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Chandrayaan-3's success is a must for India's space ambitions; we can't afford to lose out. And for realising our space dreams, the Indian private sector must be encouraged because if we lose this race, the moon, Mars, and mineral-rich asteroids will already be crowded before we reach there.
With 365 airliftings worth several crores of rupees happening in Delhi in a year on average, it's time for big business.
The tax holiday awarded by the Union Budget to healthcare and IT sectors has been greeted with enthusiasm. Major hospital chains had already announced plans to expand in tier 2 cities. The tax holiday has proved to be an added incentive. India needs 3.1 million new hospital beds in the next 10 years. The tax-holiday benefits are available for all new hospital projects except the ones coming up in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore & Ahmedabad.
Well-known evangelist D G S Dinakaran died at a private hospital in Chennai on Wednesday following a brief illness, family sources said.
India's first 3G network, currently being tested in some Tamil Nadu villages, could well lay the seeds of a rural ICT revolution.
Industry experts are demanding a change in the inverted duty structures this Budget to boost domestic industries.
Venkat got himself admitted to the Apollo Hospital soon after the shooting incident in which his business partner B Prashant Reddy died under mysterious circumstances
"One should stay away from silver and red colours because they are more toxic. These colours are carcinogenic. They are metal oxides," Dr R K Joshi, consultant dermatologist in Apollo Indraprastha Hospital, told PTI.
They say new rules that make over-billing by private hospitals a criminal offence will hurt their ability to treat patients properly, says Subir Roy.
It may have taken 54 years to set foot in north India, but south India's Manipal Health Systems has finally dived into the thick of action and announced two hospitals in Delhi with the promise of many more spread across the region. However, the big challenge facing the company that operates 17 hospitals in the south will be competition from existing, well-established hospital chains such as Fortis, Max or even Apollo that entered north a while ago.
It is composed of a series of shots taken October 12 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, as it passed about 83 miles above the lunar crater Compton on the far side of the moon, NASA said.
Any NGO critical of the government is unlikely to receive a green signal. The new amendment will leave NGOs vulnerable to harassment. It was the NGO sector that helped provide compassion and food to millions of people during the lockdown. The new Bill will render such cooperation and camaraderie impossible in future, observes Rashme Sehgal.
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.
Union Panchayati Raj and Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar was admitted to the Apollo Hospital in Chennai after he developed chest pain on Wednesday morning. "His condition is stable and there is nothing to worry about. However, he will be kept under observation at the ICU for the next 24 hours," hospital sources said.
Mukesh Ambani Group-controlled Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd said on Friday there would be no change in its management post amalgamation of its subsidiaries with itself.
About 15 people have been feared killed in the mishap.
Govindacharya was admitted to Apollo hospital on Saturday night after he fainted at a function in Hissar.
Although Russia, United States and China have achieved a soft landing on the lunar surface, India is aiming at becoming the first one to explore the south pole of the Moon.
A trickle of NRI doctors returning home has been there all around the country for decades now.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad said it was not aware of any threat being issued to one of its doctors, who treated tennis star Sania Mirza.
Saina Nehwal underwent a scan to diagnose her Achilles tendon problems and has been prescribed rest for a couple of weeks.
Weakness in the broader markets, along with expensive valuations that these companies had commanded during their IPOs, has led to this fall
The late former prime minister did not shy away from controversies and had famously said it was an inspector's job to get at the truth in the Bofors scam and not that of the prime minister.
The O-Shot is used to stimulate the vagina and treat sexual dysfunction in women.
While summoning the MLA, the court also rejected the final report filed by the CBCID where the victims have claimed that the accused are their husbands.
Earlier, Jaslok Hospital had issued an advisory to its doctors to avoid prescribing drugs manufactured by Ranbaxy.
Doctors and experts say that besides spike in fresh cases, health complications have aggravated in people having a history of asthma, allergy or other related ailments.
