The World Bank and other agencies on Sunday suggested that now India needs to scale up prevention of HIV if it wants to avoid the increasing spending form its health budget on treatment of AIDS patients. New Delhi is revealed to spend about 5 percent of its $5.4 billion healthcare budget on treating AIDS patients.

HIV cases showing signs have reached an alarming figure in New Delhi, in the financial hub of Mumbai, in the north and the northeast, the cost of treatment in India could jump to $1.8 billion by 2020, about 7 percent of the total health expenditure.

Congress leader Digvijay Singh expressed grief over the treatment extended by communal forces in India to the famous artist MF Husain making him to leave his motherland and accept citizenship from Qatar. Husain remained under fire by some Hindu outfits due to his controversial painting of some Hindu Gods and Goddesses-date back to the 1970s.

Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences is asked to submit a fresh report on the state of health of the main culprit B Ramalinga Raju in the multi-crore Satyam scam.

The first report on the same did not satisfy the court, hence it asked for a second one. The medical report did not mention that for how long Raju will be treated as an in-patient.

The Indian federal budget, presented by Country's Finance Minister in the parliament, has nothing to woo a large number of non-resident Indians (NRIs) in general and UAE expats in particular.

Dubai-based Indian language newspaper Gulf Madhyamam has started a yearlong campaign to find most influential expatriates from the South Indian state of Kerala who came in the Gulf state of UAE and finally settled there to be a part of growth story of the oil rich Emirates.

Gulf region, being India's largest trade partner, plays a significant role in the prosperity of the country. But the recent Dubai World's crisis that shocked the markets across the World, could affect the import export trade business of the country according to the Economic Survey 2009-10, presented in Parliament just ahead of the annual budget.

Riyadh-based Saudi National Air Services has proposed direct flights from Saudi Arabia to Mumbai through its subsidiary Nas Air connecting Riyadh to the Indian financial capital. Reports published in Arab News said that the airline would operate four times in a week starting from the end of March.