New Delhi / Tribune News Service The Delhi government fined five prominent private city hospitals Rs 700 crore for not treating poor patients as mandated by the law, underscoring the scanty healthcare options available to the Capital’s economically weaker sections (EWS). Government rules stipulate 10% of all patients admitted to private hospitals must be poor and treated free of …

Shanghai / AFP Small-time investor Tracy Li lost more than $3,000 of her hard-earned salary from working at a bank after China’s stock market crashed last summer, wiping out trillions of dollars in valuations in just days. A year later, and she has been burned twice, betting government intervention to prop up the market after the rout would guarantee good …

  BLOOMBERG Dubai stocks led a retreat across Gulf Arab equities, tracking declines in emerging markets as investors brace for a series of key global events including this week’s Federal Reserve meeting and MSCI Inc.’s annual market-classification review. The DFM General Index retreated 1 percent, the steepest drop since June 2. Emaar Properties PJSC, the developer with the largest weighting …