Make in India & Delivering Quality Healthcare

India emerged as a front runner in the medical tourism space as early as the 1990s. Today, the sector is valued at $3 billion and has been witnessing a steady…

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GST & Small and Medium Businesses

GST is breaking down barriers created by the older, complicated tax structures, paving the way for a unified marketplace and is making it easier to conduct business. While large corporates…

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The growth of our domestic economy & foreign entanglements

Rising powers like India usually have differing ways to increase their influence.  To reach the inflection point that casts a nation as a great power, one must navigate the shoals…

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Ministry, NITI Aayog moot privatisation of select services in district hospitals

As a part of a radical ‘privatisation project’, the Health Ministry and the NITI Aayog have developed a framework to let private hospitals run select services within district hospitals, on…

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Think beyond loan waivers

Indian agriculture is characterised by low scale and low productivity. About 85% of the operational landholdings in the country are below 5 acres and 67% farm households survive on an…

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National Trade Facilitation Action Plan

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley released the National Trade Facilitation Action Plan (NTFAP). The NTFAP was considered a major milestone for the global trading system. About the NTFAP: The NTFAP gives…

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Food Wastage-Critical Issue of National Importance

Food wastage is an extremely critical issue of national importance. To address the problem of food loss and waste globally, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 aims to halve per…

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Mahadayi: Goa open to out-of-tribunal settlement

Goa has said that it is open to talks with Karnataka and Maharashtra to explore an out-of-tribunal settlement on Mahadayi issue. Goa demands a Tribunal In 2002, Goa had appealed…

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