Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Bangalore : In a bid to take its civilian products to the masses, the Defence Research and Development Organisation, through its new H1N1 detection system, has made testing for the deadly flu more affordable and less time consuming. The product, which has been developed over a period of six months, …
National Institute of Nutrition wants high sodium content in ready-to-eat foods reduced Hyderabad: In a major initiative to ensure that people consume less salt, the Central government has asked the manufacturers of packaged foods to gradually reduce the salt content in their products. The changing lifestyles of people, both in …
The Supreme Court on Friday said it did not have any objection to conditional export of “ready, available” stock of banned pesticide endosulfan but refused to permit further production. “We have no objection to exports unless some conditions are met, but it should only be to the extent of stocks …
The Supreme Court on August 5 gave a three week extension to the Joint Committee to submit its interim report on the possibility of exports or disposal off the existing stocks of endosulfan. The interim ban imposed on May 13 on the manufacture, use, sale and export of endosulfan will, …
Affidavit filed in the Supreme Court of India dated 4/08/2011 in re: Endosulfan - W.P.(C) NO.213/2011 Democratic Youth Federation of India Vs. Union of India & Ors which includes the Interim Report of Joint Expert Committee on Endosulfan.
KOCHI: Scientists here have developed a genetically-engineered antigen to diagnose chikungunya with greater accuracy. The scientists, from the SCMS Biotechnology Centre here, are confident that the antigen would make diagnosis of the disease more cost-effective, apart from giving accurate results. They are also just a whisker away from inventing chikungunya …
KASARGOD (Kerala), 31 JULY: A ten-member Central expert team today visited the district to study on the health status of people residing in the endosulfan-affected areas. The team was led by ICMR director general Dr Viswa Mohan Katoch. The team, which had visited Kasargod sometime back, during their second visit …
Thousands of Bhopal gas tragedy survivors marched from Bhopal Talkies and submitted a memorandum to the Governor of Madhya Pradesh addressed to the Prime Minister of India and a similar memorandum to the Chief Minister on Monday. Through the memorandum, they requested the PM for urgent intervention to ensure that …
Mangalore: The Supreme Court has allowed Navdanya, a recognised premier network of organic farmers headed by Dr Vandana Shiva and human rights activist and environmentalist Dr Ravindranath Shanbhag to file an intervention application in the case filed by Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) seeking a country-wide permanent ban on …
The Supreme Court appointed joint committee failed to submit its interim report on endosulfan on July 15 and asked for eight-week extension. On the other hand, the Pesticide Manufacturers and Formulators Association of India (PMFAI), one of the respondents in the case, pleaded with the court to give immediate relief …
Pesticide manufacturers have submitted before the Supreme Court that the plea of CPI-M activists for a ban on Endosulfan is politically motivated and sought dismissal of the petition. In its affidavit, the Pesticide Manufacturers & Formulators Association rejected the allegations made by Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) that there …
HYDERABAD, 4 JULY: A comprehensive Bill that aims to regulate and monitor the entire research on the human subjects in the country, will be introduced in Parliament by the end of this year, director general of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Mr VM Katoch, said today.
Nine-year-old Rani is unhappy. She has to stay away from her mother Janki Patel, who is taking part in a clinical trial at a centre 10 kilometres from her house at Bapu Nagar in Ahmedabad. “I do not like these trials. They take my parents away,” says Rani. In their …
To tighten regulations around clinical trials, a bill was drafted in 2002. Framed as per the guidelines of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), it was submitted to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2007 to be tabled in Parliament. But it has seen no progress ever since. …
What if a participant dies during a clinical trial? ICMR guidelines clearly mention that a participant must be insured for injuries and deaths. They bind ethics committees to review insurance documents before giving approval for the trial. Contract Research Organisations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies say they ensure that participants are …
Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug, but compromise on ethics. While doctors and organisations conducting trials make big bucks, the rights and safety of the subjects are often …
A clinical trial that came under fire in India threatens to have a dual legacy: inflaming unfounded fears about a lifesaving vaccine and raising new questions about the management of medical research in the country. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110622/pdf/474427a.pdf
THE Supreme Court has ordered a nationwide ban on manufacture, sale and use of endosulfan for the time being, citing its harmful health effects. Applying the precautionary principle, the court, in its interim order, said right to life, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, is the most fundamental of …
