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The concept of health insurance in its modern avatar dates back to 1694. In India too, health insurance products have been available in one garb or the other for as long as one can remember. However, it was the policy of Economic Liberalisation in 1991, followed in quick succession by the passing of the Insurance …
Trends from the world of Diabetology One in eleven adults suffers from diabetes. To put things in the proper perspective, that is 415 million people around the world. By 2040, this will aggravate further, with one in every ten – 642 million – suffering from the silent killer. Every 6 seconds, a person dies from …
Sylvia Ostry Lecture, Toronto,September 13, 2016 Good morning. Thank you for your kind introduction, John, and thank you, Bill Robson and the C.D. Howe Institute, for your invitation and for hosting this wonderful event today. I am grateful for the opportunity to deliver a lecture in honor of Sylvia Ostry, the great Canadian economist and …
5000 years before the birth of Christ, the ancient Sumerians talked of tooth worms as the cause of Dental decay. The Egyptians went even further and inscriptions on the tomb of Hesy-Re refers to him as “the greatest of those who deal with teeth, and of physicians” – the earliest known reference to a person …
The Earth is heating up. The polar caps are melting, resulting in the gradual rise in the sea levels, which, in turn, promises to play havoc with the world as we know it today. Already, the summers are prolonged, the winters are harsher and the monsoons are erratic. Water tables are being depleted at an …
Some are lured by the prospect of two square meals a day. Some, by the promise of easy money and assured jobs in faraway places like Delhi, Mumbai, or even Dubai. Some elope with lovers who have their fill only to bare their fangs. Exploited, abused and broken, some end up in the so-called dance …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) yesterday sought to provide a positive push to the construction sector via a slew of initiatives to give a fillip to private participation and investments while also providing oxygen to revive stalled projects in the sector. The announcement that government agencies would pay 75% of the arbitral award …
Ashutosh Limaye, National Director – Research, JLL India It is natural to wonder why certain realty projects, such as ‘Worli 1973’, ‘W54’ or ‘Three Sixty West’, are so named. Or why some developers come up with esoteric names ranging from Greek gods to foreign flora for their projects. In fact, the naming of realty projects …
Pasadena, CA—An international team of astronomers, including Carnegie’s Eric Persson, has charted the rise and fall of galaxies over 90 percent of cosmic history. Their work, which includes some of the most sensitive astronomical measurements made to date, is published by The Astrophysical Journal. The FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE) has built a multicolored photo …
If you have decided to study abroad and begin a new learning experience outside India, it is crucial to take an English-language assessment.The TOEFL test is the most widely respected English-language assessment worldwide, and proves to universities your ability to understand English as it is read, written, heard and spoken in the university classroom. If …