Buying health insurance

Health insurance is one of the financial products that every individual and family must have. Health care costs are rising. Rather than put yourself and your family at any financial risk, its worth spending a few thousand rupees per annum to get the even the most basic of health insurance coverage.

Here we give you some tips on how to buy health insurance.

How to buy in 5 easy steps

1. Decide on the family members that you want to cover through health insurance

2. Decide on the amount of coverage needed, based on your estimate of health costs and your existing coverage from employer provided insurance etc.
3. Compare the options of taking individual policies vis a vis a floater policy, or critical illness or other specialized policies based on your requirements.

Wind, rain, sea pound eastern India as Cyclone Phailin nears

BHUBANESWAR: Strong winds and heavy rains pounded India's eastern coastline on Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of people took shelter from a massive, powerful cyclone expected to reach land in a few hours. The skies were dark - almost black - at midmorning in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha and about 60 miles (about 100 kilometres) from the coast. Roaring winds made palm trees sway wildly, and to the south, seawater was pushing inland. By Friday evening, some six lakh people had been moved to higher ground or shelters in Odisha, which is expected to bear the brunt of the cyclone, said Surya Narayan Patro, the state's top disaster management official. About 12 hours before Cyclone Phailin's landfall, meteorologists held out hope that the storm might hit while in a temporary weakened state, but no matter what it will be large and deadly. Ryan Maue, a meteorologist at Weather Bell, a private US weather firm, said even in the best-case scenario there will be a st...

Fortune magazine recently did a survey to find out the world's most admired companies.

Fortune magazine recently did a survey to find out the world's most admired companies. To compile the list of 50 most admired companies overall, the US-centric survey asked business people to vote for companies that they admired most. While Apple topped the list, carmaker Volkswagen occupied the 50th position. Sadly, no Indian brand could make it to the top 50.

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