Government to give legal recognition to gold jewellery hallmarkingAfter about 15 years of launching a hallmarking scheme for gold jewellery, the govt now plans to give legal recognition through amendment t...
01 Dec, 2014, 06.57 PM IST
Modi government asks States to rein in onion retailersThe letter was sent within hours of TOI report highlighting the huge gap between the wholesale and retail price of onions in markets such a...
01 Jul, 2014, 11.56 AM IST
Rising prices: Narendra Modi steps in, states asked to take measuresWith prices of essential commodities rising, PM stepped in and states were asked to take urgent measures to remove hitches in supply chain.
30 Jun, 2014, 09.27 PM IST
Centre to ask states to check onion hoarding at retail levelThe Centre will ask state govts to take action against retailers hoarding onion stocks after it found a huge gap between wholesale & retail...
30 Jun, 2014, 07.24 PM IST
Government imposes $300/tonne minimum export price on onion exports to check priceOnion prices have risen to about Rs 25-30 per kg in the National Capital from Rs 15-20 per kg a fortnight ago.
17 Jun, 2014, 05.57 PM IST
By targeting bureaucrats with integrity, UPA has contributed to degeneration of state institutionsHundreds of doctors & community health workers wrote to health minister & PM expressing their dismay that a person who had given new life t...
07 Mar, 2014, 11.02 AM IST
Keshav Desiraju violated MCI rules: Ghulam Nabi AzadThe minister also attached the copies of the letter written to Tandon by him and also the file in which Desiraju admitted his mistake in wr...
02 Mar, 2014, 01.08 PM IST
Medical mafia has taken over Medical Council of India: AAPAfter Desai's arrest in 2010 the MCI was dissolved and a Board of Governors managed the affairs for the last three and a half years.
01 Mar, 2014, 02.30 PM IST
Congress, BJP, SP paving the way for Ketan Desai's re-entry into MCI:AAPDesai was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2010 for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 2 crore from the management of a priva...
01 Mar, 2014, 12.53 PM IST
Former bureaucrats write to Prime Minister on Health Secretary's transferThe letter, emailed to the Prime Minister last week, points to the unceremonious exit of Desiraju who was shunted out to Consumer Affairs D...
24 Feb, 2014, 03.58 PM IST
The curious case of health secretary Keshav Desiraju's transferNew hypotheses say Desiraju was removed because he was opposing some of Azad's ideas. These include the contentious proposal to bring back ...
17 Feb, 2014, 09.08 AM IST
Plan to get 100 Indian firms under 'Healthy Workplaces'An effort to get 100 Indian companies under the category of "Healthy Workplaces" by 2016 was announced by a global health non-profit organi...
29 Sep, 2013, 06.14 PM IST
No probe against Ranbaxy yet; DCGI findings within a month: Keshav Desiraju"Clearly, questions are being raised on the quality of drugs after this episode, but we cannot have a knee-jerk reaction to this sensitive ...
07 Jun, 2013, 11.02 AM IST
India's vaccine regulator National Regulatory Authority of India meets WHO standardsIndia's Rs 19,000-crore vaccine industry accounts for exports worth 13 billion US dollars to 150 countries.
09 Apr, 2013, 10.05 PM IST
- India plans to expand NPCDCS to all districts
The govt plans to expand National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) fro...
04 Apr, 2013, 09.48 PM IST
- Make tobacco control part of social policing: Health Ministry
Health Ministry has for the first time sought the intervention of the Home Ministry for making implementation of a tobacco control law a pa...
24 Feb, 2013, 07.11 PM IST
- Huge crunch of medical professionals in rural areas: Official
Public health system in the country was facing a huge crunch of medical professionals, including doctors, in rural areas.
18 Jan, 2013, 06.25 PM IST