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A lawyer took on India’s profiteering hospitals to end the obscene overpricing of cardiac stentsBirender Sangwan’s parents wanted him to be a doctor.
Updated July 20, 20229 min read
Birender Sangwan’s parents wanted him to be a doctor.
Elon Musk is a tough cookie to impress. At job interviews, the co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX is known to ask notoriously difficult questions. And if and when he’s hired someone, he can apparently be an incredibly demanding boss.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) wasn’t always one of the world’s most reliable space launch vehicles.
At 6pm on Feb. 13, R Seshasayee, chairman of the board of Infosys, walked into a packed room in a Mumbai hotel and began with a warning: It was going to be a long press conference.
Anyone who’s driven on Indian roads will know this: speed breakers in the subcontinent can be damaging. Usually unmarked and terribly designed, these undulating contraptions can effortlessly rattle bones and contort car chassis.
If one were to use drug seizure data as a proxy for what India’s getting high on, here’s the status report for 2016.
When Iranian and Indian leaders signed the agreement to jointly develop the Chabahar port—some 1,800 kilometres south of Tehran—last summer, it was heralded as a project that would transform relations between the two countries.
Made-in-India iPhones are coming.
To use an alliteration that his boss would approve of, the budget tabled by India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley today (Feb. 01) was largely about:
The Financial Times Global MBA Ranking is out, and the usual suspects remain at the top.
On Feb. 01, Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley will rise in parliament to present the Narendra Modi government’s fourth budget.
In India’s decidedly mediocre education system, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been celebrated for many things.
Last October, in the middle of the incendiary campaign that led to his election as US president, Donald Trump made a promise.
Elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s most populous state, rarely disappoint. There are fast-moving family feuds, rousing rhetoric, dramatic alliances, and breakups, and the sheer unpredictability of gauging an electorate divided by complex caste and communal calculations.
It’s one thing trying to build driverless cars, and entirely another to make them work in Indian conditions.
In a government thin on talent and high on bluster, Sushma Swaraj is a standout for keeping her head down.
The Narendra Modi government’s flagship financial inclusion scheme—the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)—has always been about big numbers.
Another year, another tranche of Pornhub data.
Earlier this year, when the Narendra Modi government sought to advance the dates for presenting the annual union budget, the rationale was straightforward: The exercise should be over before the beginning of the new financial year.
Sundar Pichai doesn’t exactly seem part of the brash, big-ego club of Silicon Valley’s top leaders, but few can doubt the soft-spoken engineer’s talent and temerity.
Kharagpur, India
It’s been a perilous day for some air passengers in India.
Fake news has claimed another victim—and even prompted a bit of sabre-rattling by the defence minister of a nuclear-armed nation.
In case the long list of terror organisations already menacing India wasn’t enough, there’s a new threat brewing beyond the country’s eastern borders—in Myanmar.