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22-year-old’s 3-D scanner can diagnose heart diseases in 90 seconds He started a biotech company and collected millions of dollars in capital, including from famed businessman Mark Cuban, and he hopes to start bringing 3-D heart-scanning technology to hospitals and emergency rooms across the country as early as this year. “Five years from now, we

The new church choir: Why agnostics and Christians are taking up ‘the music of yoga’ In the 1990s, American musician Dave Stringer went to India for a pay cheque and came back with a calling. Hired by an Indian guru to make videos, he was tasked with translating the philosophy of yoga and the music

Diwali 2017 Photos: Indian Festival Of Lights Celebrated All Over The World The Indian festival of lights, called Diwali, was celebrated Thursday in India and in other parts of the world. People lit oil lamps known as “diyas” and candles, along with other firework displays. The glittering festival celebrates the victory of good over evil, knowledge over

ST: A unified India for business As both houses of Parliament convened for a joint session to launch the goods and services tax (GST), with Union finance minister Arun Jaitley’s speech reminiscent of Jawaharlal Nehru’s “India’s tryst with destiny”, India heralded the onset of what is undoubtedly the biggest tax reform in its history. Truly,

From $651 mn to $2.5 bn in a year: 3-fold surge in spending by Indians on foreign travel INDIAN TRAVELLERS are splurging money abroad, much more than before, according to the latest Reserve Bank of India data on foreign exchange for overseas travel. The data released Tuesday show that Indians spent $2.56 billion in foreign

Donald Trump’s rise, fall in oil prices hit foreign job prospects for Indians Job opportunities abroad plummeted in 2016, recruitment and remittances data show, projecting an employment crisis brought on by upheaval in the oil economies of Gulf countries and rising protectionism in the West. The year saw a 33% fall in Indians getting jobs

Bank of Baroda lets you remit money to India for free via ATMs Instant and cost-free money transfer service to India at better exchange rates through debit cards “all seven days round the clock” is one of the innovative services customers can avail from the Bank of Baroda even as several exchange houses in the

ItzCash partners with Prabhu Money Transfer India for remittance to Nepal Domestic remittance and digital payments company ItzCash has ventured into cross-border remittances through its partnership with Prabhu Money Transfer India, a remittance company in Nepal to enable Nepali diaspora settled in India to remit money back home through ItzCash’s 75,000 agent network spread across

One of the biggest sources of cash for the world’s poorest countries shrank for a second year in a row Foreign aid is nothing compared to the kindness of family. Every year, the biggest transfer of funds from the rich world to developing countries comes in the form of remittances—transfers from foreign workers back to