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Private hospitals profiting from medical tourism should subsidise poor Indians, Parliamentary panel says

New Delhi: Large corporate hospital chains that benefit from government incentives, including 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI), should use a part of the...

The invisible backbone of India’s medical tourism. Translators are friends & fixers

More than 5 lakh foreign patients came to India for treatment last year. The country's ambition to become a medical-tourism hub is sustained by a workforce that largely operates in the shadows.

India & Bangladesh take steps to normalise issuance of visas as calibrated thaw in ties continues

From 1.75 mn Bangladeshis travelling to India in 2024, only around 4,70,000 arrived in 2025. Both govts continue efforts to normalise ties via greater people-to-people ties.

Union Budget: Tourism sector to get boost with visa waivers, medical tourism push & homestay loans

The govt laid out a plan to make tourism a key sector for employment-led growth in India. FM Sitharaman announced a plan to develop 50 tourist destinations in the country.

Drop in number of Bangladeshi patients may hurt Indian hospitals. Strained ties, visa curbs to blame

Bangladesh nationals have usually formed a major chunk of India’s total medical tourist footfall. Now, they may be turning to Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey & even Pakistan.

How to make India the next skin and hair medical tourism destination

Selected registered qualified clinics and medical institutes must tie up with the govt and work toward arranging for travel and accommodation arrangements.

Only one attendant, no sightseeing, no shopping — how India could reopen medical tourism

Contact-less service in hotels & hospitals among 18 recommendations Indian medical tourism industry has sent to Centre as it wants multi-billion dollar sector to reopen.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.