New Delhi: Large corporate hospital chains that benefit from government incentives, including 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI), should use a part of the...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Selected registered qualified clinics and medical institutes must tie up with the govt and work toward arranging for travel and accommodation arrangements.
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.
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.
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.
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