The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has obtained permission for “restricted use in public health emergency” of two second-line HIV medications for use against the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
This Bill could have been drafted by the VHP. In this parliamentary session, before the upcoming assembly polls in November, the government is set to shepherd legislation that proposes a nationwide
The Government's in a spot with the Agriculture and Commerce ministries battling over issues concerning negotiations at the Cancun round of talks under the aegis of WTO next month. The new spat
There is another twist in the nimesulide tale that negates the claims of drug manufacturers and even the Indian Medical Association about the safety of the medicine. The European Medicine Evaluation
Proof has arrived from researchers in Chennai after studying smoking habits of India's living and the dead
The ambitious New Gurgaon project to expand the Millennium City has run into controversy with farmers and panchayats opposing the land acquisition over compensation. The New Gurgaon project is worth
Work on the the 5 km long stone wall which surrounds the Kaimuriya (Panna), village in Madhya Pradesh began last November, the result of one of the few poverty alleviation programmes that has
The Arctic ice cap will melt completely within the next century if carbon dioxide emissions continue to heat the earth's atmosphere at current rates, according to an international study.
We need politicians who recognise that the issues of the 21st century are healthcare, education and the environment and not ideology or mythology. We have had poltitical freedom - if it means
The Taj Heritage Corridor controversy is getting murkier with the Uttar Pradesh government now ordering a departmental inquiry against suspended principal secretary (environment) R.K. Sharma on the
You thought you couldn't gulp down that Pepsi or Coke? Now, think twice before popping a pill or crunching from a bag of chips. Eat this: Of the 40,000 drugs manufactured in the metropolis and the
