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Himani Chandna

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Himani Chandna is a Senior Special Correspondent at BW Businessworld covering issues around pharmaceuticals, healthcare, job market, talent acquisition and management of human resources

Latest Articles By Himani Chandna

Three Years Of Modi Govt: All Parties Must Benefit

Keeping healthcare costs under control for consumers is important, but not at the cost of hurting other stakeholders of the industry

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Goverment Extends Price Control Over Commonly Used Vaccinations And Medicines

Drug price watchdog, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has fixed or revised retail prices of 37 scheduled formulations

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Textiles Ministry May Rescue Sinking Job Market By Creating 1 Crore Jobs In Next 2 Years

The National Democratic Alliance government may need to go back to the basics in order to revive the job market from the doldrums. Textiles, the second most labour intensive sector of the Indian economy after agriculture, is trying to rescue the shrinking job structure in the country and the government is expecting to create one crore jobs from the special package for textiles and apparels introduced in June 2016

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Job Creation Sinks To Eight Year Low, Recruiters Bet On GST For Revival

India adds nearly one crore new workers into the existing workforce, annually -- roughly equivalent to the total population of Czech Republic or Portugal. However, India created just 2.31 lakh jobs in 2016

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NPPA Issues Show Cause Notice To Cadila, Lupin, Abbott Healthcare Among Others

Country’s top drugmakers including Abbott Healthcare, Mankind Pharma, Cadila, Lupin and Biocon are under scanner. NPPA has found around 200 'new drugs' which are either being sold by drug makers without applying for price approvals or have been tweaked to escape the provisions under DPCO

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Adidas India Gears Up For Quarterly Appraisal From 2018, Discards Annual Performance Review

Several companies including RPG Enterprise, BookMyShow, KPMG and majority of technology giants such as HCL Infosystems and IBM among became the first ones to adopt regular feedback systems

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Update Your Skills In Every 5-year If You Want To Stay In The Game, Warn Recruiters

The process of re-skilling will become never ending now. After every five to seven years, an employee would need to embrace new skill set. Meanwhile, employers will not think twice while hiring or discarding a person for the sake of right skill match

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‘Only In India, Movie Stars Make More Money Than Athletes’

In an interview, Bunty Sajdeh, CEO, Cornerstone Sport & Entertainment (39) talks about brand Virat Kohli, sports management and the life of a player agent

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From Black Rice To Ahimsa Honey: Startups Are Cashing On Buzzing Organic Food Market

Ruchi Jain, Founder of Taru Naturals, sources the honey produced exclusively by the tribal community, the Kattunayakan, in southern India and sells the honey by sleeping bees

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Reskilling: In The Age Of Machines

The appetite for traditional IT jobs is on the decline due to rise in robotics and automation. IT professionals must therefore reskill themselves to stay in the game

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