Full text: President Murmu's address to Parliament's Budget Session

‘Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the......

Full Text: President's joint address to both houses of Parliament

Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022. IMAGE: A word cloud of President Ram Nath......

'This is the moment to reintroduce wealth tax'

'From March 2020 to November 2021, the combined wealth of the billionaires of this country has doubled.' IMAGE: A homeless girl asks for alms outside a coffee shop in Mumbai. Photograph: The Late......

India's digital health mission likely to face privacy issues

The initiative has the potential to, as PM Modi put it, ‘bring revolutionary changes in India’s health facilities’, but there are several challenges in its implementation, report......

'The agenda is 'insurance for all by 2047''

'If you want it to grow well and serve the true needs of the economy, it needs a lot of freedom and flexibility, which comes in terms of the reform objective set by the regulator.' IMAGE: Shoppers......

'India needs insurers catering to niche sectors like NBFCs, MFIs'

India has a huge untapped population which doesn’t have facilities for financial aid and insurance, and it is perhaps plausible to look at the option of having niche players catering to......

Health expenditure's share in GDP down

The share of total health expenditure as part of the gross domestic product (GDP) went down to 3.3 per cent in 2017-18 from 3.8 per cent in the previous two years, according to the national health......

Why govt MUST use private healthcare to fight COVID-19

'Most of the testing capacity in India is in the private sector.''Whether it is the established RT-PCR test for COVID-19, or it is other innovations in testing that are now coming up, all these are......