B.R. Shetty: How Indian entrepreneur went from Padma Shri honouree to losing his $10 billion healthcare empireB.R. Shetty built a vast healthcare and finance empire from scratch in the UAE. His ventures, including NMC Health and UAE Exchange, achiev...
16 Oct, 2025, 08.20 PM IST
Hospital-insurer conflict: Will latest circular by NMC help in reducing the pain of health insurance policyholders?The hospital-insurer conflict may be behind the National Medical Commission’s reissuance of last year’s government directive, but whether i...
29 Sep, 2025, 06.30 AM IST
Refrain from doing research on e-cigarettes, obtain prior permission from ministry: NMCThe National Medical Commission (NMC) has instructed doctors affiliated with it to avoid initiating or participating in research activities...
17 Dec, 2023, 02.41 PM IST
Doctors to be penalised for not prescribing generic drugs, says new NMC regulationAll doctors must prescribe generic drugs, failing which they will be penalised and even their license to practice may also be suspended for...
12 Aug, 2023, 04.05 PM IST
Dubai bank's win in Abu Dhabi court to remain legal headache for NMCNMC, the largest private healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ran into trouble last year after the disclosure of more tha...
14 Jul, 2021, 03.50 PM IST
NMC sues Dubai bank in $6 billion UAE debt row: SourcesThe legal action by NMC's administrator against Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) comes after DIB filed lawsuits in neighbouring Dubai. The lawsuits...
14 Apr, 2021, 09.47 PM IST
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala interested in buying NMC hospital business: SourcesNMC, the largest private healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates, ran into trouble last year after the disclosure of more than $4 b...
16 Mar, 2021, 04.58 PM IST
Abu Dhabi fund, CVC, among suitors for $1 billion NMC hospital businessHospital operators in the region have reported higher profits for last year as the COVID-19 pandemic led to higher in-patient occupancy.
03 Mar, 2021, 04.43 PM IST
NMC Health administrators sound out investors for flagship UAE hospitals - sourcesThe potential sale of its biggest assets which would also include Oman, could generate around $1 billion, one of the sources said. It follo...
09 Dec, 2020, 08.50 PM IST
Treating India's healthcare problem at its sourceIncreasing healthcare spend may seem the most logical solution to improve the country’s healthcare services, whose weaknesses have stood ex...
16 Oct, 2020, 11.49 PM IST
BR Shetty seeks probe by CBI, ED into $6 billion ‘fraud’ in his companiesThe founder of hospital chain NMC Healthcare and UAE Exchange has sent a written complaint to the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enfor...
08 Oct, 2020, 07.16 AM IST
President Ram Nath Kovind signs NMC Bill into a law; NMC to be constituted within six monthsThe National Medical Commission Bill, passed by both houses of Parliament, will be notified in the gazette soon, Harsh Vardhan said.
09 Aug, 2019, 02.39 PM IST
Bridge course proposed in NMC Bill should not be made mandatory: Parliamentary panelThe panel was informed that a bridge course will be introduced only by a unanimous vote and each one of the allopathic doctors in the NMC w...
20 Mar, 2018, 06.10 PM IST
UAE-based Indian businessman offers jobs to 46 Indian nursesNMC Healthcare Group CEO Dr B R Shetty has made the offer to nurses, assuring them he would find place for them in the UAE, an NMC official...
06 Jul, 2014, 01.29 PM IST
NMC Group plans to invest Rs 500cr in Indian healthcare sectorAbu Dhabi-based New Medical Centre group plans to invest Rs 500 crore in healthcare sector in India, company's CEO B R Shetty has said.
03 Apr, 2013, 12.12 PM IST
BR Shetty, owner of 2 floors in Burj Khalifa, wants to bring NMC hospital chain to IndiaBesides big investments, Shetty's NMC Healthcare will be running a chain of super-speciality hospitals in India, if things go according to ...
04 Nov, 2012, 09.10 AM IST
- NMC Healthcare plans to set up hospital in Manipur
Shetty’s group NMC Healthcare has six healthcare facilities in the UAE and has acquired a hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.
07 Jan, 2012, 06.08 PM IST