Permanence of life insurance
Business Lineby TC Suseel Kumar; R Sudhakar·21d ago
A fixed deposit matures in five years; an equity share can be sold tomorrow. A whole life policy taken out by a father naming his newborn son may not discharge its obligation for 70 years.
India’s biotech start-ups need patient capital to drive novel drug innovation, industry leaders say
Business Lineby BL New Delhi Bureau·21d ago
India’s biotech start-ups need larger and more patient pools of capital to take novel drug candidates through the long and high-risk development cycle, while stronger links between academia...
ETFs vs index funds
Business Lineby Venkatesh Bangaruswamy·21d ago
Suppose you decide to invest in passive funds for your goal-based investments. You must first select a benchmark index and then choose an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or an index fund on that...
Ayushman Bharat’s missing link: Emergency care
Business Lineby K Madan Gopal; KS Uplabdh Gopal·21d ago
Eight years after its launch, the Ayushman Bharat scheme has shown that India can create health entitlements at an unprecedented scale.
Wellness-centric care with nutraceuticals
Business Lineby DB Anantha Narayana·21d ago
A neighbour walked into my house with a bottle of melatonin tablets labelled “nutraceuticals“ and wanted to know if he could give it to a relative who had just flown in from abroad.
Blueprint for AI in healthcare
Business Lineby Team BL·21d ago
The UK’s National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare has published its recommendations on how that country can regulate AI in healthcare to ensure it remains safe, keeps pace with...
‘Break-glass’ allowance: How safe is personal health data?
Business Lineby Vallari Sanzgiri·21d ago
Consider a situation that confronts medical practitioners, more often than not, in a hospital emergency room — an unconscious, unaccompanied patient is wheeled in, who may possibly require insulin...
Are kirana clusters the future of inclusive retail?
Business Lineby R Sathyanarayanan·21d ago
Offering speed and convenience, quick commerce is rapidly transforming the urban retail landscape through agile logistics.
Devastated by Taliban, ignored by all
Business Lineby Rasheeda Bhagat·21d ago
The essence of the book The Vanishing Girl of Kabul (Hachette India) by award-winning journalist Zahra Joya and co-authored by Amie Ferris-Rotman is captured in these lines: “The Taliban’s...
A portrait of a storied building
Business Lineby TCA Srinivasa Raghavan·21d ago
We are all used to hearing and reading gossip and stories about people. But about a building? Welcome to Sobhana K Nair’s book about the old Parliament building, the huge round structure, whose...
Food business must look beyond economic gain
Business Lineby Priya Joshi·21d ago
A food business cannot just be a business; it has to be more. A few months ago, I said this to my neighbour in a casual conversation over tea.
Boardroom to Courtroom: Tata Sons-Trusts battle appears headed for courts
Business Lineby BL Mumbai Bureau·21d ago
The escalating dispute between Tata Sons and Tata Trusts over the reappointment of chairman N Chandrasekaran increasingly appears headed for a legal showdown, with two of the country’s most...
OMC’s under recovery on LPG up 5% in August
Business Lineby Rishi Ranjan Kala·21d ago
The under recovery on LPG of the PSU oil marketing companies (OMCs) rose roughly 5 per cent on a monthly basis to more than ₹62,000 crore in August 2026 as retailers continue to sell the critical...
SC-backed AoA rights at heart of Tata Trusts’ challenge to N Chandra reappointment
Business Lineby BL Mumbai Bureau·21d ago
The challenge mounted by Tata Trusts to the reappointment of N Chandrasekaran as chairman of Tata Sons draws its strength from the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Cyrus Mistry case, where the court...
Gold, silver rates to remain volatile this week: Here’s what to watch out for
Business Lineby PTI·21d ago
Gold is likely to remain volatile and range-bound in the coming week as traders track movements in the US dollar and bond yields, developments in the West Asia conflict and the direction of crude...
Pinglu Canal connects rivers, sea, and new opportunities
Business Lineby Cuelive·21d ago
BEIJING , Sept. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from People's Daily The Pinglu Canal officially opened to navigation on Sept. 16.
MeitY to take up semiconductor companies’ concerns with Finance Ministry to ease hurdles at Customs
Business Lineby S Ronendra Singh·21d ago
India’s fast-expanding semiconductor ecosystem is running into regulatory and customs hurdles that could slow project execution, prompting the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology...
For India, border peace with China comes before deeper economic ties: Sources
Business Lineby Amiti Sen·21d ago
India is not ready to offer big concessions to China on trade and investment until there is greater assurance on peace and stability along the border despite recent high-level economic engagement...
SEBI board may take up changes to PMS, settlement regulations
Business Lineby Akshata Gorde·21d ago
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) board is scheduled to meet on September 24 and may consider an overhaul of settlement regulations and portfolio management services (PMS), a common...
Rajasthan farmers sell moong below MSP as Govt yet to decide MSP purchase
Business Lineby Prabhudatta Mishra·21d ago
Rajasthan, the top producer of the Kharif season’s moong (green gram), has reported arrival of nearly 63,000 tonnes of the pulse crop from the fresh harvest since September 1 and it is nearly 10...
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