India fine-tunes strategy to scale up medical tourism
India is looking to double the size of its medical tourism industry to $6 billion, with the tourism ministry unveiling new guidelines to attract a larger share of global medical …
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Charles Bukowski: So You Want To Be A Writer
So you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart …
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Cementing the BRICS as an effective economic bloc
Before India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Brazil for his first major international summit, the sixth annual BRICS summit, he put forward his vision that the vitality of the …
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India, Nepal hold talks to galvanise ties
Taking a long-range view, the foreign ministers of India and Nepal have held wide-ranging talks and explored a host of ideas, including the signing of an extradition treaty, a hydropower …
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Cabinet approves 49% FDI cap in insurance sector
In an important reform initiative by the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, the Cabinet has approved to increase FDI cap in insurance to 49 per cent from the current 26 percent. …
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Modi to World Bank: More ideas, rather than dollars
More ideas and information, rather than dollars – this was the message of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to World Bank Group President Jim Kong Kim when he met him …
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Knowing India’s nuclear credentials
There has been a concerted attack on India from the usual suspects in recent days even as it was entering into negotiations to formally accede to the Nuclear Suppliers Group. …
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Germany beckons Indian students
Destination Germany. Indian students seem undaunted by language barriers as they fly to the West European economic dynamo in staggering numbers to pursue higher education. There has been 114% rise …
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TCS: World’s second most valuable IT company
India’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the outsourcing giant, crossed the Rs 5 lakh crore mark in market capitalization on July 24, to become India’s most and the world’s second most …
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Gaza violence: India backs Palestine in UNHRC vote
Amid the festering violence and mounting casualties in Gaza, India has voted in support of a UN Human Rights Council resolution to probe Israel’s offensive in the region. In the 47-member council, 29 countries voted in support of the resolution while 17 nations abstained. Israel’s long term ally, the US, was the only nation to vote against the resolution. “We remain hopeful that a sustainable ceasefire will be reached between the two sides, linked to the resumption of the peace process, for a comprehensive resolution of the Palestinian issue,” said India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Asoke Mukerji.
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