- Why investors are wary of India
In its three years at the helm, the government and its other arms have alienated companies and investors in sector after sector with its in...
- Serious ailments to get govt cover
Heart, Kidney & Cancer patients to get bills part-paid regardless of financial status.
- Free drug modalities to be discussed today
The government’s plan to provide free medicines to cancer patients and subsidised drugs to all through drug banks across the country is set...
- Indian pharma firms expand global footprint in 2006
Indian pharmaceutical companies' huge appetite to expand overseas through acquisitions, while being at loggerheads with the government at h...
- Drug watchdog’s Quixotic dalliance
Ram Vilas Paswan’s indignant remarks on the huge trade margins in the pharma sector, especially in the unbranded drugs’ category and threat...
- Pharma cos may bear some healthcare cost
For the first time in the country, pharmaceutical corporations are set to bear part of the healthcare cost of citizens.
- Govt to notify reduced prices of 886 medicines
The chemicals and fertilisers minister Ram Vilas Paswan has asked the field force of state-owned Hindustan Antibiotics to see if drug maker...
- HAL to play watchdog for drug price cuts
This would allow the government to proceed against overcharging if cheaper drugs do not reach chemist shops by November 15.
- Govt plans drug banks to subsidise medicines
Consumers will soon be able to buy medicines at a subsidised price. The government is planning to institute a special fund which will suppo...
- New pharma policy in offing
A new pharma policy is likely to be taken up for approval by Union Cabinet after a 14-member committee set up by Chemicals and Fertiliser M...