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 …
An ongoing case in Madras High Court has brought forth a damning revelation: the Indian government remains confused about its patent laws and the latter are now under threat. A May 2006 petition filed by Novartis, the pharmaceutical multinational, has sought changes in India's patent laws. Potent enough to restrict …
Released on July 4, 2006, the national pharmaceutical policy, envisaged as an umbrella policy, was to fix problems related to access to affordable drugs. The policy suggests access would be improved if the number of drugs in the National List of Essential Medicines is increased to 354 from the present …
the fight for access to a generic version of a cancer drug is likely to get more problematic. India's ministry of commerce and industry has signed a memorandum of understanding (mou) with the us Patent and Trademark Office (uspto) on intellectual property (ipr). Signed on December 20, 2006, the mou …
In August and September 2006, patients with cancer, lawyers for patient advocacy groups, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) converged on the offices of Novartis in Mumbai, India, to protest the company's efforts to obtain an Indian patent on Gleevec, the company's brand-name version of imatinib mesylate. Gleevec (spelled Glivec …
groundwater contamination in Goa's Pilerne industrial estate has led to a drinking water crisis in its surrounding villages. By now, more than 300 residents from Orda and Saipem villages have been affected by drinking polluted water. The residents get their drinking water supply from a bore-well in Orda and four …
the Gujarat High Court has issued notices to Alembic Ltd, the Gujarat government and Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (gpcb) over contamination of groundwater in Paneval village in Panchamahal district of Gujarat. The Vadodara-based Alembic, one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in India, has a plant in the village manufacturing …
the Union ministry of chemical and fertilisers has from November 2, 2006, enforced a new drug pricing system covering 886 generic medicines produced by 11 pharmaceutical companies. As against the 200 per cent and more margin earlier charged by wholesalers and retailers, now the former will get a 15 per …
The war over Glivec, a cancer treatment drug, is expected to intensify as two writ petitions filed by Novartis AG, the Swiss pharmaceutical group, come up for hearing on September 26, 2006, in the Madras High Court. Petition 24754 was filed against the January 25, 2006, order of the assistant …
the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) served a closure notice to a plant of Alembic Ltd in Panelav village of Panchmahal district, Gujarat, on August 25, 2006. It manufactures bulk drugs and drug intermediates. The notice was issued after it was found that the plant was environmentally hazardous and its …
the Himachal Pradesh High Court recently ordered the expansion of Ranbaxy's fermentation plant in Ganguwala village in the Sirmaur district to be stopped. The order came after residents of the village filed a petition. Villagers alleged that the company was violating environment norms as well as the land laws of …
A fake malaria drug caused a death in Myanmar recently. A patient went to a rural hospital in east Myanmar where he was diagnosed with falciparum malaria and treated with the anti-malarial drug artesunate. The drug is usually effective, yet it led to the patient's death. The drug was reportedly …
there is no end to ghost pipelines in industrial areas in Gujarat. Recently, the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) had issued closure notices to 49 private industrial units including three chemical trading units in the Ankleshwar and Panoli industrial areas. The board has also issued show-cause notices to 13 industrial …
antibiotics may get a fresh lease of life following the discovery of a potent compound by a team of scientists at Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey, in the us. Called platensimycin, the compound was isolated from a fungus-like bacterium found in a soil sample from South Africa. The …
researchers from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, have developed a drug against hyperthyroidism which, unlike other medication, has an effect that is reversible. G Mugesh and his student, Gouriprasanna Roy, from the institute's department of inorganic and physical chemistry, modified the anti-thyroid drug, methimazole, by replacing the sulphur molecule …
India is moving towards amending a law to introduce provisions that will make it impossible for Indian pharmaceutical companies to produce generic versions of patented drugs. If it goes through we can say goodbye to cheap versions of expensive, sometimes life-saving, drugs produced by mncs. The government wants to amend …
New alternative testing methods, which will reduce the need for testing certain drugs and chemicals on animals, were recently approved by a scientific committee. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods approved six such methods that will not only reduce the number of …
