Pharmacy associations to skip strike, major medicine disruption unlikelyIndia's drug regulator is actively reviewing concerns from retail chemists about e-pharmacies. The All India Organisation of Chemists and D...
18 May, 2026, 09.08 PM IST
Drugs at your door: Signs of a disruption taking shape in IndiaIndia Pharmacy Retail Quick Commerce: India's medicine delivery is seeing a change. Quick-commerce apps are making it easier to buy medicin...
01 May, 2026, 03.07 PM IST
E-pharmacy draft rules: DCGI holds fresh talks with all stakeholdersThe Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Thursday held fresh consultations with stakeholders on the draft rules to regulate e-pharma...
26 Aug, 2023, 10.08 AM IST
PharmEasy mails health minister for quick draft rules notificationPharmEasy parent API Holdings wrote to health minister Mansukh Mandaviya asking for an urgent meeting with the delegation of online pharmac...
24 May, 2023, 06.00 PM IST
Bitter Pill: India’s ePharmacies are shackled by regulatory inertiaAn enabling regulatory environment is the need for the hour, to help realize that vision and encourage pharmacies for digitization.
31 Oct, 2020, 11.55 AM IST
Unclear regulations on e-pharmacies may hinder investments: 1mg’s Prashant TandonThe government has been working on draft regulation now, till the final regulation comes out and it has been more than one year since the d...
27 Jan, 2020, 10.03 AM IST
States told to restrain unlicenced e-pharmaciesThe Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked the state-level drug regulators to ensure that e-pharmacies don’t sell medicines with...
04 Dec, 2019, 07.54 AM IST
E-pharmacies await govt to release regulations for the sector"We want India to come up with a progressive e-pharmacy regulation. We want that as that would give a lot of clarity and confidence to the ...
03 Dec, 2019, 04.13 PM IST
GoM meets to discuss regulating e-pharmaciesThe GoM was set up after government failed to push the proposal to legalise online pharmacies within 100 days of Modi govt’s second term, f...
06 Nov, 2019, 06.49 AM IST
Bombay HC strikes down plea against online drug salesThe petition had said certain categories of drugs (schedules H and X) cannot be sold without a prescription, that is, only through physical...
09 Aug, 2019, 09.20 AM IST
E-pharmacies group appeals ruling to shut down businessThe court had asked e-pharmacies to stop business, raising alarm among private equity funds that have invested nearly Rs 300 crore in them.
18 Dec, 2018, 11.29 PM IST
Madras HC bars e-sale of drugs from ThursdayThe order says other countries like the US, which has new laws in place, also finds the enforcement of online pharmacies, a challenge.
18 Dec, 2018, 12.20 PM IST
Restrictive Delhi HC order pushes India's online pharmacies on the backfootInvestors have continued to pour in significant amounts of capital in the burgeoning space, but the latest court decision is likely to affe...
14 Dec, 2018, 08.18 AM IST
Purchase genuine medicines online as new ePharmacy draft moots single registryNow, e-pharmacies would only have to seek one licence from the Drug Controller General of India, the country's apex drug regulator and cent...
21 Apr, 2018, 07.44 AM IST
Have e-pharmacies found the growth pill?According to the draft rules which came out in March this year, no one can operate an e-pharmacy without registering with the Central Licen...
05 Nov, 2017, 10.56 AM IST
Until Government releases rules, e-pharmacies to self-regulate: IIPAAll IIPA members will be regulated under this code, said Tandon. This includes companies like 1mg, Netmeds, Pharmeasy, mChemist and Medlife.
22 Nov, 2016, 11.02 AM IST
Government may regulate e-Pharmacies soonThe sub-committee has defined terms related to online medicine retail, including e-prescriptions, online pharmacies, over-the-counter (OTC)...
25 Jul, 2016, 11.30 PM IST