Karnataka is on track to meet its ₹40,000 crore excise revenue target for 2025–26 despite a fall in liquor consumption after repeated tax h...

"To make Karnataka number one state in the country, law and order is important. Karnataka remaining free from terror is equally important. ...

Collaborative engagements in the areas of enforcement, regulatory frameworks, transparency through effective IT systems, and building of ro...

Dr Sanjeev Kumar had posted videos and messages, including a blanket prescription with names of 11 drugs “for very sick patients with low o...

Maharashtra is among the last states to have an official policy on using traditional medicines among the methods to prevent the spread of c...

The 121-page report will now be studied by the ministry and suitable changes in the legislative provisions may be considered to allow onlin...

The CAG, in a report in 2015, criticised the Central Board of Direct Taxes for allowing promotional expenses by pharma companies as deducti...

A committee is formulating the Karnataka Public Health Policy in which experts are working out a costing mechanism.

Patient interest can be kept as a primary focus by reforming such bodies as the National Rural Health Mission and Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Y...

The government approved a policy for procuring medicines produced by Central PSUs, a move which aims at optimum utilisation of such units w...

Karnataka has unveiled a new pharmaceutical policy that intends to provide ready-to-use infrastructure for establishing pharmaceutical ente...

India's per capita public spending on health is an abysmal $32 or about Rs 1,800 per annum. The neediest of patients are often denied drugs...

Healthcare activists plan to take Union health ministry and the chemical & fertilisers ministry to the Supreme Court (SC) for failing to re...

State-owned pharmaceutical companies have overshot their sales target for the first quarter by 20%, thanks to the fund infusion and mandato...

The law ministry has asked GoM to approach the SC again to ascertain if the 354 drugs identified by the chemicals ministry as essential act...

Alembic, Cadilla Healthcare, Wockhardt, Lupin and Medley Pharmaceuticals would face legal action for allegedly selling 39 specified pack si...

The Union health ministry has informed the Attorney General that it did not think the National List of Essential Medicines submitted to the...