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Despite an increased overall expenditure on health, increased number of postgraduate medical seats, and development of some of the health centres in villages, this year’s union budget was full of empty rhetoric and no real strategy on the part of the...

Sixtysix years after independence, India continues to be a country with widespread poverty and backwardness and finds a place only at the bottom of the development index in the international league of nations. The euphoria generated at the time of independence...

Every year, over 3,09,300 children (29% of global share) in India die on the day they are born; the country fairs poorly even in maternal health, with 56,000 maternal deaths per year.  While the government has taken several steps, including creation...

In what’s been labeled his rubicon moment, Praving Gordhan presented the country’s annual budget in parliament today. Below is the full script of how Gordhan plans to save the South African economy from junk. A must read. – Stuart Lowman Pravin Gordhan...

Mitt Romney has accused President Obama of "a dangerous course" in wanting to cut $1 trillion from the defense budget - although the administration's actual proposal is a reduction of $487 billion over the next decade. " He has blamed Obama for "procrastination...