-The Hindu Overall, the Budget places considerable emphasis on agricultural renewal and agrarian prosperity. Obviously, the allocations are small but a beginning has been made to look at the problems in farming in a more holistic manner. The Union Budget is a resource allocation exercise. The priorities in the allocation were indicated in the address of the President to Parliament on June 9. While the President's address provides a framework for political...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Top cardiologists of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here have decided to start an initiative called the Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM) - a movement that aims to take on the growing menace of excessive medical investigations, starting with cardiology. Several studies across the world have conclusively established that generalized annual health check-ups are unnecessary and add enormously to healthcare costs without...

-Live Mint   Ensuring food security is a zero-sum game. It is time we understood that no country can adopt strategies driven by narrow self-interest Mint's Quick Edit The food challenge , in the 19 June edition, is impressive in its analysis, but offers solutions that are indeed worrisome. It impresses because the edit is brutally frank about the fact that in the times ahead, India's food supply will emerge as a problem...

-The Times of India   CHENNAI: Stress-related health problems are no strangers to young professionals, but a new guest has found its way to the list-tuberculosis. The infectious disease often conjures images of a lined and gaunt face and an emaciated body, but the bacteria is striking early and, increasingly, young professionals are the victims. "At least 60% of the patients I see work in sectors that involve a lot of stress,...

-IIM Ahmedabad   There is no denying the fact that human life is precious and in cases of medical negligence, the judges find it extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation as the quantum is highly subjective in nature, and despite the best efforts of the legislature to enact certain laws which can somehow provide a framework for arriving at a quantum, and also interpretation by the judiciary for so...