As of now, there is nothing to suggest that the 'Michaelpatti episode' has the potential to polarise Dravidian Tamil Nadu on religious lines, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
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.
Experts feel the figures are modest for a count of the size of 1.3 billion and "much more number of tests" are needed to combat COVID-19 outbreak in the country.
Tanzil Ahmad was shot dead by two motorcycle borne persons when he was returning after attending a marriage ceremony with his wife Farzana.
Umesh Sharma (40) was the head of emergency medicine department of the premier hospital in south Delhi.
His form has been a bit of concern but New Zealand captain Ross Taylor is confident that Delhi Daredevils' untested middle-order will "stand up" and be counted when required in the Indian Premier League.
Cheeta, CO of the 45th CRPF battalion, was shot nine times during an operation against terrorists in the Hajin area of Kashmir Valley on February 14 this year.
The corporate healthcare segment may replicate the success of the Indian IT sector, say experts.
With one more person succumbing to injuries on Monday, the toll in last week's violence in Bharatpur has risen to 10, police said.
Forty-year-old Pramod Chaurasiya, owner of an electronics shop on Mubarakpur Road, became the 12th person to be killed in the blast outside the Delhi high court on Wednesday. He died early on Thursday at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
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The captain of the turbine jet was alive and recuperating in a local hospital, Xinhua reported. But Capt Qi Quanjun, lying on a hospital bed with tubes tucked around his body appeared traumatised and was unable to talk to the media
As 46 Indian nurses, including six from Tamil Nadu, are stranded in a hospital in strife-torn Iraq, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene in the issue and ensure their safe return home.
Parkway, which is the biggest listed hospital chain in Asia, is now at the centre of a probable bidding war between the Singh Family-promoted Fortis Healthcare and Khazanah.
Forty-one people, including 32 members of a marriage party, were killed and seven others were injured in two separate accidents in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, police said on Thursday.
While the process of extracting plasma itself is simple, doctors say that it is the screening of donors, testing and filling up of numerous forms that takes time.
The battle for control of Parkway Holdings, Asia's largest hospital chain, is set to be fought in Singapore. Khazanah, the Malaysian government-owned investment fund, which is the second largest shareholder in Parkway through Integrated Healthcare Holdings, has fired the first salvo by offering S$1.18 billion (US $710 million or over Rs 3,900 crore) for a majority stake in the company that is currently controlled by the Singh-family promoted Fortis Healthcare.
'It will only get worse, definitely, for the next month and one-and-a-half months.'
As India gears up for the tough Test series against Australia, its spin spearhead Harbhajan Singh underwent an MRI scan in a local hospital after suffering a side sprain.
Israeli air raids on Gaza Strip, 155 people killed
'The social distancing vaccine.' 'And the mask vaccine.' 'If you adhere to these two vaccines and go and meet people in a well-ventilated room -- not in an enclosed, non-ventilated, room -- you are probably going to be okay.'
Some sectors like aviation, hospitality, travel and tourism, and automobile have witnessed zero cash flow since the lockdown began.
'From the very start, PM Modi was insistent that visiting foreign leaders should be exposed to an India beyond its capital.' 'Through these experiences, he felt that the full Indian narrative would be much better understood across the world,' explains External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. A riveting excerpt from Bluekraft Digital Foundation's Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery.
To cater to the antiviral fabrics and antimicrobial segment, almost all the Indian big textiles brands, including Reliance, Arvind, Aditya Birla, Donear Group, Raymond, and Siyaram have entered the market. Companies started their journey with reusable masks and PPE kits, and today, they are offering a range of PPE clothing along with fashion and casualwear.
The 5087 Gorakhpur-Jammu Tawi Express hit the truck at the crossing near Domingarh Station, 7km from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
The five passengers, who escaped with burn injuries, are undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad.
Indian CEOs are increasingly depending on Ayurveda as compared to mainstream medicine to combat lifestyle diseases.
Mukerjea regained consciousness on Sunday and was "out of danger" as she responded to the treatment.
While virologists say theoretically the vaccine that works on Delta should work on the Delta Plus variant as well, more research is needed.
Dr Trehan, who on Thursday dubbed as "nonsense" the announcement by Fortis Healthcare (the owners of EHIRC) that he has left the company, was stopped at the gates by the security guards on Saturday morning.
In 2014, Sun Pharma agreed to buy Ranbaxy -- which was then controlled by Daiichi.
The jail houses only hardcore criminals and one of the grouses of the prisoners is that petty criminals are also lodged in the facility, jail sources said.
'Imagine hanging from a thin steel cable under a helicopter with certain death staring at you below, being pulled up slowly in the din and downwash of the helicopter.' IAF Veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe, a helicopter pilot himself, reports on how the air force rescued those trapped in the Deoghar cable cars disaster last fortnight.
Many medical experts feel that the nation would have fared far worse without the lockdown.
The chief minister visited several villages in Khairagarh tehsil, the worst affected in the dust storm that left a trail of death and destruction, disrupting power lines, uprooting trees and claiming the lives of over 40 people in Agra alone.
Swaraj had undergone a kidney transplant on Saturday with the organ being harvested from a living unrelated donor.
Urjit Patel as the new RBI governor whose focus is on taming inflation has lowered the probability of interest rate cut soon
