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NEW DELHI: Indian healthcare industry is poised for a big growth in its business as the patients from the developed countries as also the developing countries are looking to India for quality medical treatment at low costs. The number of such foreign patients is already on the increase in the leading specialty hospitals of the country, and the industry sources confirm that this trend will lead to high foreign exchange earnings by the country in the coming years.

KOLKATA: Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been facing a crisis of identity for reasons that the top brass of A K Gopalan Bhavan, national headquarters of India's largest Leftist formation, failed to envision but now it has to confront the rock that the party bosses finds extremely difficult to cross over.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Melting Himalayan glaciers and other climate change impacts pose a direct threat to the water and food security of more than 1.6 billion people in South Asia, according to preliminary findings of a new study financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

New York: The Philippines has become only the second country in the world to be formally designated as a transit country for at-risk refugees on their way to resettlement elsewhere under an agreement reached by the United Nations and the Asian nation.

New York: A United Nations report launched today recommends a new Marshall Plan of more than $500 billion per year, or one per cent of global output, to help developing countries ease the impact of global warming and adjust to its effects while continuing on a path of economic growth.

New York: Some 91 countries have agreed to the final text of a United Nations-brokered treaty aimed at combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) announced today.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Kingdom are providing $14 million in technical assistance to help improve the quality and delivery time of projects in some of India's poorest states.

NEW DELHI: The micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide employment to more than 60 million people; and these units contribute over 45 per cent of the total manufactured product and 40 per cent of the export earnings.

Even as the rusty flakes peel off the figure of the BJP's lauh purush, there is an element of surprise as to why he came to this sorry pass. Yet, it was always obvious through the Jan Sangh's early years that L.K.Advani was the minor leader of a minor party. Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Atal Behari Vajpayee were miles ahead of him.

New York: Greater efforts are needed to win the battle against organized crime in East Asia and the Pacific, according to a new study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which calls for a fresh approach to tackle the scourge.