Indian IT service providers are increasing their exposure in the healthcare and pharma segments. Multi-million dollar deals in this space by IT firms over the past three-four months only buttress this trend. Healthcare outsourcing has moved away from just undertaking medical transcription and business process outsourcing (BPO) work to core functions such as drug discovery, testing, research and development.
Hillary Clinton has proposed measures including new taxes for trading to hold Wall Street accountable.
On her maiden visit to India, US Food and Drug Administrator Margaret A Hamburg has said recent lapses in quality by a handful of pharma companies has overshadowed the good things done by other Indian companies, who emphasise on quality products and practices.
The Budget will obviously be crucial. But US President Donald Trump may have even more of an influence than Finance Minister Arun Jaitley when it comes to sentiment, argues Devangshu Datta.
'... And I don't think it really is that despite a lot going wrong.' 'Naiveté or stupidity or trusting the wrong person, the outcome is the same, which is that the group has gone to trash.' 'I'm not OK with people saying I had a role to play in crooking the system, which is not what I did.'
The meetings were a sign of crisis management.
About 80 per cent of Sicilian businesses cough up a pizzo, of as much as 350 pounds a month. However, the burgeoning power of Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Naples, the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia, has led to the infiltration of bigger businesses as well.
Work is underway in identifying global companies in sectors ranging from electronics, auto components and medical equipment to shift part of their existing or incremental manufacturing to India.
The 31-year-old will have to do the balancing act between his anti-BJP support base and work with the Khattar-led dispensation for smooth governance.
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