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Health tourism being made competitive in India
The Centre is taking all steps to make the Indian health tourism industry globally competitive
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SKS Microfinance poised to make a clean break from the past
If Vikram Akula, the disgraced founder of SKS Microfinance, is attempting a back-door entry into the company, then something in it is attractive again.
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Indian company to install 15,000 ATMs in the next 3 years
India is an under-penetrated ATM market with only 98 ATMs for every one million people.
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Medical services through phone on anvil
Can cellphones save lives? Marking a significant shift, Indian healthcare providers are now looking at extending medical services through mobile telephony.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Lack of birth control hits millions of women globally: India
India today expressed concern over a staggering 222 million women not having access to contraceptive services globally, leading to 80 million unplanned pregnancies, 30 million unplanned births and 20 million unsafe abortions each year.
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Apollo Hospitals Group readies higher dose of telemedicine
In a first of its kind initiative in the healthcare sector, Chennai-based Apollo Hospitals Group is soon going to launch the next version of telemedicine, a web-based platform with a ‘Skype-like’ video conferencing tool embedded’.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Indian Banks complete first phase of financial inclusion
Commercial banks have achieved the target of providing banking outlets to all villages in Karnataka, with a population of over 2,000 people.
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Inclusion — don’t count on banks
We need thousands of small private sector financial intermediaries for promoting financial inclusion.
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