Botched sterilisation
Over a period of time, India has turned out to be a major medical tourism destination for relatively low cost operations, and its private medical facilities are regarded as being amongst the best in the value-for-money genre.
The man hurt his back?
Health issue, car crash, a mild heart attack, an assassination plot – were the immediate speculations over the recent close to two-weeks' disappearance of a high ranking politician of Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping.
Debit that carbon!
"We can be satisfied that we were able to get our way on this issue (targets),'' Jairam Ramesh, the former Environment Minister, had famously said after he had argued it out with developed nations on legally binding carbon cuts during the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in 2009.
One more... or Too Less?
Alarming high birth rates, an ever-increasing global population and the socio-economic and demographic effects of the same have been global concerns for the last 50 years or so.
Should CRR be abolished?
Recently, a storm hit the Indian banking sector when the country’s largest public sector bank State Bank of India (SBI) and India's central bank Reserve Bank of India (RBI) clashed head to head over a comment made by SBI Chairman, Pratip Chaudhuri. He had questioned the very concept of Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR), saying, "Why is CRR not applied to insurance and other companies who are mobilising deposits from the public?"
A Country ready to run dry
An already troubled nation as it is, Yemen has a bigger worry than the bane of terrorism – a nationwide backbreaking water crisis. A Yemeni government report in 2010 gave the initial feelers of the impending issue. The report highlighted how Sana, the capital city of the country might completely run out of water "in the coming decade" itself. Unfortunately, no significant improvement has taken place since the report came out. Even global concern and a change in the regime could not come to the rescue.
The new rare war in making
There seems to be a new entry in the catalogue of war for resources. After oil, gold, uranium and water, the latest additions are the Rare Earth Elements (REEs).
21 Years: Not enough!
After 13 months of demonstrations by the civil society demanding just punishment for Anders Behring Breivik’s killing spree of 77 innocent Norwegians in manic fervour, the court finally awarded him imprisonment for 21 years – the highest ruling allowed under the Norwegian law.
4,800 Acres for Rs 100/year!
Recently, the Civil Aviation Ministry awarded 4,800 acres of land to GMR-led DIAL (Delhi International Airport Ltd) on a lease of Rs 100 per annum.
Sporting the diplomacy
Historically, sports events, akin to wars, have extensively been used to settle scores between nations and to showcase one's supremacy and power.
Perennial blackout
Around 600 million people mostly in north, east and northeast India could not immune themselves from the massive power failure, which is touted as the biggest failure of the decade.
The stifling healthcare policy!
This shift to a "managed healthcare network" model will apparently allow a large network of private hospitals to play a domineering role in treatment of the people of India while leaving the government to play a mere regulatory role.
Where have they decamped?
While the world is busy comparing London Olympics with the last one held at Beijing and predicting the final medal tally, the case of seven Cameroon athletes missing from London Olympics seems to have gone almost unnoticed.
Enemy in need is enemy indeed!
India's decision to set off a new era in Indo-Pakistan trade relations by granting the latter a Most Favoured Nation status has the potential of creating a win-win situation for both the countries.
Clash of Technology titans
It's getting increasingly difficult for the current set of rules and regulations regarding patents and copyrights to keep pace with technological advancements.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
