The corporate healthcare segment may replicate the success of the Indian IT sector, say experts.
Sending emails is the most popular activity with a user base of close to 24 million, or 95 per cent of the total active Internet users.
During the UPA government's second term in office, rural India's consumption expenditure grew at a faster pace than urban India's - for the first time since 1991.
City governments must work out the treatment system for faecal sludge.
The employment rate (number of person unemployed per 1000 person in the labour force) according to usual status was 17 in the rural areas and 45 in the urban locations.
The digital divide separating rural and urban India may finally be narrowing, thanks to setting up of BPOs in villages.
Gearing up for its pan-India 4G services launch in coming months, Reliance Jio Infocomm has approached the Department of Telecom for a network test conducted along with security agencies.
The use of henna as hair dye may be waning as western tastes sweep through the malls and markets of urban India, but it is far from dead in towns and villages.
Modi Sarkar will not stand on ceremonies even if that means stepping on the Constitution, says Udit Misra.
CPI inflation is on the decline since July.
The Indian economy may be registering strong growth, but nearly 20 per cent of the population or close to 250 million people of spent less than Rs 14 per person per day on consumption in 2004-05.
Shah said the Modi government has in the last three years shown the political will to take decisions.
What sold the most this year? Beauty, toys and baby care, sports and fitness, television and large appliances, followed by fashion, says T E Narasimhan.
'Implementation of GST would lead to the growth story of India'.
Effects of the new schemes launched under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana would be felt more in tier-II and tier-III cities, as not many budget or affordable housing projects are in the works in metropolitan cities.
Reforms do happen and one example is Odisha which has taken steps to create a dedicated municipal cadre.
Talks on with P&G, HUL, Patanjali, among others to push their products via 250,000 common centres
R V Rajan, chief managing director, Anugraha Madison, speaks on how rural India has changed over the last two decades.
Enrico Piperno, who was also India's Fed Cup coach says, lack of funding, support and infrastructure will cease creation of a top-50 player
The average monthly per capita consumer expenditure in the country was Rs 554 for the rural areas, while for urban India it was Rs 1,022 according to the National Sample Survey, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Flipkart's appointment of Kalyan Krishnamurthy as CEO and Ola's choice of PepsiCo's Vishal Kaul for COO speaks to the growing trend of bringing in experienced professionals to run business. Karan Choudhury reports.
Hit by a car while cycling, environmental activist Sunita Narain on Monday said cyclists in Indian cities are being edged out systematically to make way for cars.
The earlier you start on a diet of fruits and vegetables, the better it is for your health, say doctors.
'Over 50 crore Indians are currently suffering from a livelihood crisis, something to which the whole country had shut its eyes to for the past six months.' 'We woke up only after the IPL was affected.'
Rediff's data journalists bring you data about toilet/bathroom and sanitation facilities across India from the 69th round (2012) of National Sample Survey.
'Made in Heaven plays well as a busy show; when it's hip, but without being hopeless,' feels Sreehari Nair.
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