It could also ease the burden on the 225 million women in developing countries, says Ari Altstedter.
Sun Pharmaceutical's acquisition of Ranbaxy has received final approvals.
Buying medical insurance? Make sure that you know what you are getting and what you are not.
The Congress on Saturday claimed that Narendra Modi's campaign would soon peak as he has nothing new to say and keeps making 'mistakes'.
'India can learn from Sweden that witnessed just one accident last year.'
The most experienced administrator in the country seems to have sat back and allowed bureaucrats and policemen to manage the lockdown, observes Jyoti Punwani.
Outlining the Budget estimates for the coming year, the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu put the plan size at Rs 1.21 lakh crore.
Finance ministry considers tax sops, regulation of hospitals to make health care affordable.
India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
Here comes the moment of truth. Modi prides himself on offering an "incorruptible" government. Will he dilute the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill to coax the administration's fealty and compromise his self-image?
With his strong views on Bharatiya economics, his appointment to the RBI board may well presage interesting times, says Archis Mohan.
Usually, a fall in oil prices is followed with a cut in retail prices of auto fuels and the government passes on the benefit to consumers. However, Morgan Stanley believes gains this time around will remain capped.
'All their idealism, intensity of emotions, acute sense of right and wrong, and burning passion for public causes can never serve as justifiable grounds to be touted by students of any country, let alone of India, with all its fragility and vulnerability, to question its unity in the name of freedom of expression,' says B S Raghavan.
Despite Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis' ambitious plan, 40 per cent of the state is reeling from drought and its water tanker economy is booming. As of February 2019, the state government declared drought in 151 of the 358 talukas.
Transport minister says they are cheaper mode of transport than road and rail; so far only 5 river stretches have been declared waterways
According to the SRC, the evacuation of eight lakh people is the largest-ever evacuation operation in the country.
The government has taken a number of steps to address the situation faced by farmers.
...for others it would be an incentive to participate more robustly in equities and other tax instruments.
As all regulators are part of it, individuals don't need to worry about approaching the right authority
Chaos in Parliament threw a spanner in the government's efforts to revive the economy and kick-start reforms.
'With increasing numbers of juveniles committing heinous crimes, we believe such juveniles must go into the adult system and be punished,' Minister Maneka Gandhi tells Rashme Sehgal.
'The election has to be fought on perennial issues and not on a tragedy of one moment'
Some developers point out that what comes in the way of low-cost housing is the sky-high price of land
Global events will continue to be in the limelight, besides domestic policy.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a recipe for creating 100,000 plus angel investors in India.
We present our alphabet of 2020, pulling in everything you'll remember about this year we'd rather forget.
The so-called soil scam has left Lalu alone in the Mahagathbandhan.
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Such direct import was formally allowed in February 2012 but the aviation companies lack the infrastructure to do so.
To redevelop cities as 'smart', investment of at least $10 billion is required. For 100 cities, it works out to $1 trillion
The regulator has made it mandatory for insurers to have a minimum percentage of motor third-party business underwritten.
Launches of new homes reduced drastically this year.
'Open defecation kills more Indians than any terrorist organisation could, but turning that around will take communicating that all Indians are created equal and that continuing this practice is anti-national,' points out Rahul Jacob.
The ideal employee will be the one who can learn to adapt to the changes in a short span of time and apply their technical skills and problem-solving ability to come up with creative solutions, says Anoop P Kudva.
Nilekani said new-age technology markets work on a winner-takes-all basis.
Why this non-BJP MP became a Modi bhakt.
The company is to act as an ISP across rural areas for local entrepreneurs.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that the United Progressive Alliance government's policies and programmes for rapid and inclusive growth are showing good results and the country has seen a record average economic growth in the last nine years.
United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a bill granting an additional $225 million to Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome missile defense system to counter short-range rocket threats.
The full transcript of the exclusive interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'Modi, with his sharply honed political savvy and undoubted grasp of international affairs, is a past master at taking the measure of world leaders.' 'He would be the last person to think of the unpredictable and not too well-regarded Trump as the mediator,' says B S Raghavan.
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