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Hospitals are hiking other charges to maintain profits, offsetting lower stent prices

Indian-made medical devices can hit foreign firms’ market, end the mark-up regime. The neglected sector needs a vigorous push.

After controlling stent prices, the Modi government is preparing to take on expensive branded drugs with generic medicine stores across India

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Post-UP loan waiver, Maharashtra farmers demand their due, and are refusing to budge until they get it

Young converts to Islam leaving their families ­behind stoke fears of extremist recruitment

There is no middle ground any longer in Indian politics or journalism. You are either a Sanghi or a Presstitute.

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With rudeness, low cunning and barefaced dishonesty, Trump plays to an idiot’s gallery where climate change, or terror, are just board games

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The Praful Patel years, which all but grounded AI, come under the lens just as privatisation looms

Snapdeal, a sinking ship, will soon be bought over by Flipkart, but only for the sake of investors, not assets

The ambiguity over a new coach is just BCCI veterans’ tactic to delay reforms

A stolidly varied ‘Indian’ background, swirling passions in liberal Mussoorie, his parents’ courtship, his prompt arrival and Granny’s house—snatches from an old foxtrot

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