Online medicine sale fight: 20,000 chemists in Karnataka to halt work May 20Over 20,000 chemists in Karnataka will shut down their stores on May 20. This is part of a nationwide protest against online pharmacies. Th...
19 May, 2026, 05.55 PM IST
All major pharmacy chains, hospital-based medical stores, Jan Aushadhi Kendras to remain open on May 20Pharmacies nationwide will stay open on May 20. This defies a strike called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists against...
19 May, 2026, 04.06 PM IST
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
Tata Digital CEO on company's reset; Groww doubles net profit in Q4Happy Tuesday! Tata Digital CEO Sajith Sivanandan spoke to us exclusively about the ongoing restructuring at the company under him. This an...
21 Apr, 2026, 09.36 AM IST
Revamped Tata Neu to bet on loyalty, financial services: Tata Digital CEO Sajith SivanandanTata Digital is pivoting Tata Neu from a broad commerce aggregator to a loyalty-led financial services platform, focusing on payments, inve...
21 Apr, 2026, 09.26 AM IST
Pharmacy startup Plazza in talks to raise $12-15 million from Accel, Nexus, ElevationPlazza, a quick medicine delivery startup, is in talks to secure $12-15 million in funding. This new capital will help Plazza expand its ph...
17 Apr, 2026, 05.15 PM IST
Founder exits loom over BigBasket, 1mg as Tata Digital reset continuesBigbasket’s Hari Menon and Vipul Parekh are in the final stages of moving out amid the ongoing CEO search. Meanwhile, Prashant Tandon and G...
03 Apr, 2026, 08.01 AM 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
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to meet representatives of e-pharmacies soon: Sources"There are concerns over data privacy, malpractices and irrational sale of drugs," said the source. "We are against the e-pharmacies busine...
12 Apr, 2023, 09.40 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
E-pharmacies urge government to notify e-pharmacy rules"It is our sincere request that the government notify the final e-pharmacy rules," the association added. Draft e-Pharmacy Rules are in add...
01 Oct, 2020, 10.46 PM 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
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
Health Ministry comes out with draft rules on sale of drugs by e-pharmacyThe draft rules on "sale of drugs by e-pharmacy" state that no person will distribute or sell, stock, exhibit or offer for sale of drugs th...
01 Sep, 2018, 08.24 PM 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
How e-pharmacy can empower consumersThere is lack of clear-cut guidelines around e-pharmacy which would help the public to differentiate between a genuine organized player and...
25 May, 2015, 08.02 PM IST