Earlier, the Prime Minister was expected to announce the roll out of Ayushman Bharat on Independence Day. The chief architect of the scheme Dr Vinod K Paul had told Business Today that only 12-15 states would launch the scheme on 15 August 2018 as the others were not prepared to roll it out on time.

Helping employees learn and grow is the key cultural quotient on which Infosys thrives.

All major engines of economic growth - private investment, private consumption, exports, agriculture and even government expenditure - have either failed to pick up momentum or slowed down.

Are you the one who is always clicking new selfies to be posted on Instagram or who updates the tiniest details of life on Facebook? Chances are that you are probably depressed!

Rural initiatives will not be value accretive this fiscal.

One has to wait for the Budget announcement to see how many among the dozens of suggestions made by the groups will be considered by the government.

Robyn Norton of Global Health; James Martin of Oxford; and Professor Vivekananda Jha of George Institute of Public Health, on improving healthcare facilities in the remotest areas of the country.

Till end of November, over 170 inspections were held in India as against over 70 inspection and certainly much less than 100 conducted five years ago by the US regulator in India.

World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu says the government needs to continue with GST and cut down on bureaucratic cost of doing business.

Researchers found that many adult Facebook and Twitter users are willing to share their social media data and medical data for research purposes.

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Health ministry has rolled out a campaign of voice messages delivering health advice to pregnant women and mothers, in a move to cut high maternal and child death rates.

New research suggests regular medical check-ups do not necessarily help in preventing illnesses.

To address the perception that insider trading invariably goes unpunished in India, a few high profile cases should be concluded in as short a time as possible, says  M. Damodaran, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

The government on Thursday approved the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) document that seeks to achieve annual average economic growth rate of 8.2 per cent, down from 9 per cent envisaged earlier, in view of fragile global recovery.

The government has received a positive response from companies across the world that are keen to manufacture the world's cheapest tablet.

More than the best doctors and new medicine, the poor need safe and clean environments to stay healthy.

Yes, says the Wipro chairman, if the government's reach and the rigour of NGOs bind in its schools.