Patient safety in a time of fakes, misbrands and recalls
Business Lineby PT Jyothi Datta·6 Sept 2026
August proved a troubling month for patient safety — with at least four separate reports related to fake medicines, voluntarily recalls and alleged misbranding.
The magnetic lie detector
Business Lineby M Ramesh·6 Sept 2026
When Thomas Hoving stood before a 2,000-year-old marble kouros — statue of a nude Greek male — one word flashed in his mind: Fresh.
Machine learning to trade
Business Lineby N Nagaraj·6 Sept 2026
In 1962, an economist named Vernon Smith ran an experiment with students at Purdue. Half got a slip with a secret number: The most they could pay for a pretend good.
India brings a small machine to the fusion race
Business Lineby Venkatachari Jagannathan·6 Sept 2026
The Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Gujarat has commissioned India’s first spherical tokamak and begun plasma experiments, marking the country’s entry into a specialised area of fusion...
A crystal that defies thermoelectric rules
Business Lineby M Ramesh·6 Sept 2026
Just as we move away from a hot place to a comfortably cool one, so do charge carriers (electrons and holes) in atoms.
A discovery that can help ease drug delivery
Business Lineby Team Quantum·6 Sept 2026
Scientists at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have found a way to make tightly jammed materials briefly behave like liquids — by giving them a sudden temperature shock.
Telangana eyes growth led by regional airports
Business Lineby G Naga Sridhar·6 Sept 2026
Telangana’s aviation map appears set for a significant expansion, with Bhadradri Kothagudem, Warangal and Adilabad in focus for the State’s push to take air connectivity beyond capital Hyderabad.
How should India regulate investments across the transport sector?
Business Lineby Jagannarayan Padmanabhan·6 Sept 2026
There is a curious asymmetry in the way we regulate transport infrastructure. In container shipping, it is increasingly common, and widely accepted, for an ocean carrier to own a stake in the...
Logistics firms brace for festival runs
Business Lineby T E Raja Simhan·6 Sept 2026
Beginning with Onam in August and up to Pongal in January, India’s festival calendar is turning into an extended peak season for the logistics industry, with the e-commerce, organised retail...
APM Terminals builds big in Bangladesh
Business Lineby Team BL·6 Sept 2026
APM Terminals marked the official groundbreaking for APM Terminals Laldia, in Chattogram, as one of the largest public-private partnership investments in Bangladesh’s history as it moves from the...
Why does India’s food safety system need a Clint Eastwood?
Business Lineby Shubho Sengupta·6 Sept 2026
Between May and July this year, Tukaram Mundhe, a 2005 batch IAS officer from Beed, Maharashtra, reportedly walked into 3,137 restaurants, issued 764 improvement notices, and shut down 165 of the...
Streaming six-yard sales through YouTube Live
Business Lineby Shakthi H·6 Sept 2026
What does an IT career have to do with a saree business? For Chennai-based Ramya Devanathan, quite a lot.
When provocation becomes the product
Business Lineby Amit Vijay Mohile·6 Sept 2026
It was around 8.30 pm when Rahul Chhibber, a 32-year-old consultant, stopped at a South Delhi theka and told the salesman, “Chaar BroCode dena.
Tough conversations
Business Lineby Team BL·6 Sept 2026
To mark World Alzheimer’s month, the Tata Trusts has launched ‘Vajood Rahe Maujood’, a new campaign on dementia awareness that seeks to shift the conversation around the condition from memory loss...
The forgotten children
Business Lineby Richa Mishra·6 Sept 2026
Aachuki (Arrived), Nakushi (Unwanted), Faaltu (Useless), Manbhaari (Heavy Heart), Maafi (Sorry), Dhappu (Fed Up) Naraaz (Angry), Galla (Stop) and Antimbala (Last Girl) — they are the protagonists...
The life and times of an enigmatic army chief
Business Lineby Col Arun Hariharan·6 Sept 2026
Few military leaders in post-independence India have provoked as much strategic debate, intellectual fascination, institutional heartburn —and even a few raised eyebrows in South Block—as General...
Buying insurance at discount? Think twice
Business Lineby K NITYA KALYANI·6 Sept 2026
Buying insurance is commendable. Being a prudent buyer of insurance is even better. That means more than bargaining for lower premium or looking for more benefits.
Gold and silver rise
Business Lineby B Krishnakumar·6 Sept 2026
Breaking the downtrend of several months, precious metals recovered sharply in August. The expectations around interest rate hike by the U.S.
Balanced bond portfolio blueprint
Business Lineby Vaishali R Venkat·6 Sept 2026
It’s always easy to buy a bond. A bond can ‘promise’ regular income but a well-built bond portfolio is a different ball game.
Reports of privatisation ‘baseless and incorrect’: ISRO
Business Lineby Our Bureau·6 Sept 2026
To quell internal anxieties about privatisation amid reports of its employees seeking clarification, space body ISRO said on Sunday that reports of privatisation were “baseless and incorrect”.
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