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......

Space Industry Thrilled With FM Plans

'The scrapping of import duty would help Indian companies compete in international markets, thus paving the way for India becoming a space manufacturing hub for the world.' IMAGE: India became the......

Govt's pace of work tripled in 3rd term: President Murmu

President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said the pace of work has tripled in the third term of her government which has worked with strong determination to lift the economy out of the state of "policy......

Sonia gets a flowery surprise at Palghar

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was at Palghar in Maharashtra on Wednesday to launch the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram as part of the National Rural Health Mission scheme, got a flowery......

High points of Sitharaman's 8th Union Budget

These are the highlights of the Union Budget 2025-26 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on Saturday. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com DIRECT TAX No personal......

Why UPA is in trouble over rural jobs scheme

The UPA2 government finds itself in a jam with its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) being widely misused even as the National Human Rights Commission......

'Make social-sector schemes more efficient'

A menu for the revamp of several social schemes has been served by National Democratic Alliance government's first Economic Survey. Indicating that the government is not planning to reduce spending......

Health care: Budget cutback to fuel pvt expansion

The government has cut the budgets of some major central government funded public hospitals, indicating there could be more private sector expansion in health care. Over 80 per cent of health care......