As Indians boast about their rising GDP, seniors are increasingly feeling left out of the picture. The irony is while the new India (and its markets) are obsessed with its youth, old India is growing rapidly. Over 8 crore are over 60 in India today. By 2050 a quarter of the population will over 60. "The biggest increase has been in the category of 80 plus," says Matthew Cherian.

Dr Amit Roy, president and chief executive officer, International Fertilizer Development Center, could very well be the next Dr Norman Borlaug.

While Sherlock Holmes gives its director Guy Ritchie his first big hit.

Andrologist and microsurgeon Dr Sudhakar Krishnamurti responds to rediff readers' sexual queries.

"You know how painful it is to have a headache. Now imagine the pain that is a thousand times more than that and having to suffer that day in and day out. That is what about a million Indians suffer everyday," Dr Diederik Lohman, senior health and human rights researcher with the Human Rights Watch, says.

Dr Siddiqui is currently the vice president, Science and Regulatory Affairs at the Washington, DC-based CropLife America, where he is responsible for regulatory and international trade issues related to crop protection chemicals.

In a two-part series, yoga acharya Shameem Akthar, takes you through all those different ways you may do a relaxing and healing cat-stretch in yoga.

The pharma sector seeks removal of Excise Duty on Bulk drugs & Formulation of Anti-AIDS, Anti-Cancer, Anti-TB and other life-saving drugs

Andrologist and microsurgeon Dr Sudhakar Krishnamurti will be responding to rediff readers' sexual queries on a weekly basis. Here is his third set of responses.

The 3-D animation film by DreamWorks featuring voices of Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland and Seth Rogan is expected to be a huge hit.

Dimagi is a dedicated group of clinicians and programmers looking for ways to improve the quality of life and the quality of care across the globe. Dimagi has led development on SmartCare, the electronic national medical record system in Zambia.

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Friday presented a populist interim Railway Budget in Parliament on Friday. Following is the entire speech of the railway minister:

Korean conglomerate LG Electronics plans to set up learning and design centres across India. The centre will help employees hone their skills across departments such as industrial design, marketing, lifestyle research, economic and market research among others. The company plans to bring on board specialists in these sectors as faculty for the same.

Industrial policy isn't dead. It's thriving in the statesand may be the start of a U.S. comeback strategy

A new report says laws crimp Medicare's ability to control costs on cancer, leading to a 267% increase in drug spending over seven years

Among the other recipients of South Asian origin this year were Dr Shaheen Lakhan of Arleta, California; Shetty Shohan of North Palm Beach, Florida; Amoha Bajaj of Montgomery, New Jersey; Shabnum Gulati of Edison, New Jersey; and Sheel Tyle of Pittsford, New York.

A personal tragedy for Jeevan Zutshi, founder of the Indo-American Community Federation, turned into a talking point for the Unity Dinner '08 held at the Newark Fremont Hilton in California.

Dr Mohinder Sambhi, a promiment California physician, who has spent his entire career teaching at American and Indian universities, has kicked in $2 million to the South Asia Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, in the hope that it will help catalyse an India Studies Center at this prestigious university that has produced several leading diplomats, policymakers and academics.

Excerpt from the address by Reserve Bank of India Governor Dr Y V Reddy at the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore on May 20, 2008.

How a violent - and spreading - Maoist insurgency threatens the country's runaway growth

The Padma Shri winner and eminent scientist speaks to Senior Editor Ajit Jain

Intense global competition and rapid growth are forcing Indian firms to examine corporate enterprise risk management (ERM) elsewhere, especially in Europe, Australia and North America, where the process is more mature, according to a study. ERM is a cohesive, enterprise-wide process allowing companies to identify, assess and respond to the social, political and economic risks of doing business.

A slight variation of lactoferrin, known as talactoferrin alfa, helps fight lung cancer, according to research by Dr Atul Varadhachary, president and chief operating officer of the Houston-based Agennix.

Chitra Sood, staffing director at Microsoft India Development Centre talked about the recruitment process at MSIDC during a chat with Get Ahead readers on February 22. Here's what you must do to get hired by MS India.

Venkayya, who announced that he will join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, becomes the second Indian American to walk away, following close on the heels of Karan Bhatia, who resigned as deputy United States trade representative in October.

Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen has said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's prediction to President George W Bush at their first meeting that 'the best was yet to come' in Indo-US relations 'were prophetic', but that even he could not have imagined it to have fostered to the extent it has.

The rapid aging of Chinese population attributed to its one child policy implemented over two generations will impact its domestic economic growth. On the other hand, while India is at present one tenth in size of China, it will experience accelerated growth in less than ten years with better infrastructure, political reforms and fi nancial transparency.

Houston-based biotech firm awaits FDA approvals on its new drug for lung cancer treatment.

The Nagarkattis became interested in investigating the plant products for their anti-inflammatory properties because of their exposure to Ayurvedic medicine, which has argued that several plant products are effective against arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. The team plans to collaborate with scientists from India to test a large number of plant extracts for their anti-inflammatory properties and study their mode of action.

This new institute, which will be modeled after the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, will include faculty from multiple disciplines and professions and offer degrees through multidisciplinary programs.

The sanctions imposed by developed countries, coupled with lack of political will have deprived India of optimal growth in the nuclear power sector, according to senior nuclear scientists.

The policy, among other things, aims to improve the economic viability of farming by substantially improving the net income of farmers in addition to improving productivity, profitability, land, water and support services and provide appropriate price policy, risk management measures.

Indeed, all the members of this year's club are the lynchpins of enormously profitable--and growing--merchandising empires. Albert Einstein's name is used to peddle Baby Einstein DVDs. Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's books are a staple of every kiddie library on the planet. Hundreds of performances of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown pad the portfolio of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz each year--as well as comic strips that are still syndicated daily in thousands of newspapers.

The future may not be as rosy as the cheerleading cohort may think, and yet it need not be as bleak as the pessimists fear.

Changing political situation in America and European countries have forced rich Islamic investors from the Gulf countries to look for investment opportunities in South East Asian countries, including India.

The US Congress has invited Dr C S Swaminathan, who worked along with Borlaug during the days of India's Green Revolution, to introduce him.

People in India and around the world are drawing attention to the global water crisis - and promoting solutions that ensure water is a public good, not a commodity to be bought and sold.

Low costs and great doctors make India a preferred healthcare destination for Americans.

Ajit Balakrishnan, chairman of the board of governors, IIM-Calcutta, and CEO, rediff.com, gave the Convocation Speech at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta on April 1, 2007. The speech is reproduced here.

Pakistan's military expert Dr Ayesha Siddiqa speaks on Musharraf, Indo-Pak relations and the US influence on South Asia.