Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
SHAMNAD BASHEER & PRASHANT REDDY IN A MOVE WITH SIGNIFICANT RAMIFICAtions for policy-making and participatory democracy, the ministry of commerce recently threw open the issue of compulsory licensing for public debate. The move is a welcome one, as the compulsory licensing (CL) of patents is not just an esoteric intellectual …
Deepshikha Sikarwar NEW DELHI THE finance ministry has redflagged a move to impose curbs on foreign direct investment in the pharmaceutical sector. The proposed curbs were prompted by fears of large-scale take-over of Indian companies by foreigners. In its response to a note by the department of industrial policy and …
GERMAN drugmaker Fresenius Kabi has started voluntary recall of two batches of a cancer drug shipped to the US made by its Indian subsidiary Fresenius Kabi Oncology Ltd after it found cross contamination. The drug sold as anastrozole tablets is used to treat breast cancer and is sold in the …
Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004. The industry claims that promotion provides scientific and educational information to physicians. While some evidence indicates that promotion may adversely influence prescribing, physicians hold a wide range of views about pharmaceutical promotion. The objective of this …
The objective of this policy is to ensure faster economic development employment generation by sustainable use of the resources available in the state. The policy says special attention on promotion of small and medium enterprises to avert the adverse impact of global recession on industrialization in Madhya Pradesh.
On July 15, 1962, a Washington Post story, ‘Heroine of FDA keeps bad drug off market,’ shocked Americans. The heroine in question was Frances Oldham Kelsey. She had joined the US Food and Drug Administration two years earlier as a drug application investigator. With her expertise in pharmacology, she was …
India’s pharmaceuticals industry tends to be in the eye of the storm for one reason or the other. If it is not about its aggressive generics thrust globally, it is about high-profile patent infringement cases at home and abroad. The gamut of laws governing the sector, therefore, are keenly watched …
A DRUG-RESISTANT bacteria dubbed superbug has triggered a debate. A gene—New Delhi metallo-beta lactamase (NDM 1)— transforms some bacteria found in the gut, like Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, into superbugs. They are resistant to all antibiotics, except tigecycline and colistin, said a study published in the August 11 issue …
Pricing Goes Against Objective Of Reviving Units To Curb Costs Rema Nagarajan TIMES INSIGHT GROUP Two of the three public sector vaccine manufacturing units that were shut down in 2008 have started manufacturing and supplying vaccines for the government
An attempt has been made to study the feasibility of pharmaceutical (both herbal and bulk drug) wastewater treatment using saline water alga Spirulina platensis. Results showed good reduction in COD/BOD/ sulphates and chlorides.
After months of speculation, Brazil and India have launched a WTO dispute against the EU and the Netherlands over the seizure of generic drugs in transit. The complainants requested dispute settlement consultations on 11 May, citing a raft of EU and Dutch regulations that allow customs officials to detain goods …
This document is a contribution towards a renewed commitment to reverse the rate of loss of biodiversity. It is aimed at the companies and corporations who are either wholly or partly dependent on this key resource or whose activities can be a major impediment to its conservation. This publication provides …
