Seema Singh

Time and money are driving the world’s pharmaceutical companies east for their clinical trials. With its huge population, new helpful regulations and growth outstripping China, India plans to become the world leader in the clinical research business by the end of the decade.

Physicists in Bangalore have developed new uses for carbon nanotubes – as flow sensors. Now they are looking for more licensees to develop their work.

Swati Piramal was born into a textile business family. And as typical Indian marriages were solemnized more than two decades ago, she too married into one of the oldest textile business families in Mumbai.