Telemedicine in India is no more a hypothesis, but a proven theory. With the help of common service centres (CSCs), healthcare groups including Apollo and Medanta will offer telemedicine consultations in rural areas. CSC SPV, the nodal age
Bank of India has announced the third flagship conference Bankers Conference of The Indian Banks Association (BANCON) 2013, to be held in Mumbai on November 15 and 16, 2013. The theme conference this year is “Bank of the futur
The business correspondent (BC) model has been long considered the favourite choice of policymakers in connecting the last mile into financial inclusion, but it faces a huge trust deficit – so much so that even top bankers have been raising
In the end, what P Chidambaram said “in a lighter vein” may be part of the reality the government is trying to push through. “In a lighter vein, I may say that sometimes CBI itself pretends to be a victim to get autonomy,”
Investment and innovation are the two major areas that need serious attention to address the present difficulties confronting the electronics industry in India, said J Satyaranayana, secretary, department of electronics and information technology
Blame it on Nehru. If it had not been for him, India (Undivided) would comprise Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and Bangladesh, though regrettably still not Sri Lanka (Galle and Kandulama are so beautiful!). Now why couldn’t the man have just made Ji
Used clothes are the first thing you notice when you step inside the one room that serves as home for Shraddha Behn – like most other homes in Raghubir Nagar’s F block. A pile of old dresses tied together is lying in one corner, bundle
On November 10, the residents of this ghetto, situated on the foothills of a mine and housing families either employed in mines around Dalli Rajhara or menial jobs like collection and sale of firewood, questioned Mukti Guha Niyogi,
Not Ashok Ghelot, the chief minister of Rajasthan from the Congress party. Not Vasundhara Raje, his adversary from BJP, a former chief minister. Not even Rahul Gandhi, the vice-president of the Congress party. Ahead of the assembly elections on De
State owned Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has earned a net profit of Rs 1,180 crore in the September quarter owing to the lower price of coal and ‘exceptional gains’. According to a news report in The Business Line, SAI
Following the deal between Jet Airways and Etihad Airways, which will see the Gulf airline purchase a 24% stake in Jet Airways, Air India is anticipating loss of international passenger traffic due to the enhanced bilateral rights given by India t
Looking forward to garnering as much as Rs 3,900 crore, the government begins roadshows in the US for sale of its 10% stake in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Officials from the petroleum ministry and disinvestment department are looking towards har
Is the central bureau of investigation (CBI) meddling in policymaking areas as it investigates a series of scams that have embarrassed the UPA government? Prime minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister P Chidambaram think so, even as its direc
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) faces a government probe to see if it has received any foreign donations. It is ironical, because it is facing action thanks to its transparency -- which other parties don`t value much, and because it is facing this probe
For urban middle class India, the forthcoming elections - the assemblies, followed by the big one, the Lok Sabha polls, scheduled before Summer 2014 - have suddenly become a touch more interesting. There`s a renewed chatter on social media and on col
As a part of image building exercise, members of film and television fraternity met Mumbai police yesterday to discuss the dignified portrayal of police and women in films. In the packed closed door meeting attended by senior police office
A kurta-clad character resembling Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, navigates through various obstacles and runs through states like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh – winning the
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, who is seeking a third consecutive term, is trying to withhold the anti-incumbency fire raging against his ministers and party MLAs. He is telling people that every vote for the BJP will be a trust vote for
Election Commission has created quite a scare among political parties and their candidates through its strict implementation of rules on upper limit of expenses on campaigns and on defacement of public and private property. The candidates are so s
So, the top bureaucracy of India has decided not to decide anymore. As Shailesh Pathak, a former bureaucrat and columnist aptly says in a subsequent article (read it
