Quality issues: Regulator looks to tighten marketing & sale of drugsIndia's drug regulator plans new rules for medicine marketers. Companies will need a license to sell and distribute drugs. This aims to imp...
20 Nov, 2025, 12.21 AM IST
Delhi HC asks Centre, state govt to take action on online sale of drugs without valid licenceThe Delhi High Court has ordered the Indian government to take action against the illegal online sale of drugs. The court has given the gov...
30 Aug, 2023, 04.59 PM IST
DCGI sends notices to e-pharmacies for selling drugs without licenceIn the notices, issued on Wednesday, the regulator said the online platforms were doing the business in contravention of the Drugs and Cosm...
11 Feb, 2023, 09.09 AM IST
We’re just aggregators, e-pharmacies tell Madras High CourtThis comes after the Madras High Court, in a recent injunction, restrained unlicenced e-pharmacies from doing business.
05 Nov, 2018, 10.15 AM IST
Activists cry foul over new HIV drug monopolyOnly one Indian drug maker, Emcure, will be allowed to sell the medicine in the Indian private market, because of a licensing agreement wit...
27 Dec, 2016, 01.10 AM IST
Indian drug regulator may scrap licence renewal; move may affect quality of medicinesThe licences and approvals can be made perpetual provided they are not cancelled or suspended by the licencing authority, according to the ...
08 Oct, 2016, 02.10 PM IST
Action against websites like Snapdeal for selling medicines without licence: J P NaddaHe said a number of representations have been received from chemists and druggist associations against online sale of prescription drugs.
26 Feb, 2016, 04.09 PM IST
Delhi HC Upholds BMS' Patent for Cancer Drug DasatinibThe Delhi High Court has upheld the patent of US-based BMS for Dasatinib, dashing the hopes of a local company to sell a generic version of...
07 Jul, 2015, 10.50 AM IST
Delhi High Court upholds BMS’ patent for cancer drug DasatinibThe Indian Patent Office had in 2013 rejected the company’s demand for a compulsory licence as it did not follow the procedures for obtaini...
06 Jul, 2015, 05.37 AM IST
Delhi High Court notice to Novartis on Cipla plea"We will not give you an interim order. We will hear it on an early date and dispose it of. Notice. Renotify on February 5," the bench said.
14 Jan, 2015, 05.09 PM IST
Government rejects BDR Pharma's CL application for anti-cancer drugUnder the Indian Patents Act, if a medicine is deemed unaffordable, a compulsory licence can be issued to a generic drug maker in public in...
10 Nov, 2013, 12.09 PM IST
- Intellectual Property Appellate Board postpones Bayer's compulsory licence appeal
IPAB has postponed German company Bayer AG's appeal against the grant of a compulsory licence of its patented drug Nexavar to Natco Pharma ...
21 Aug, 2012, 07.11 PM IST
- Natco Pharma begins sales of Bristol Myers' cancer drug Dasatinib
Hyderabad-based generic drugmaker Natco Pharma has started selling copies of global pharma major Bristol Myers Squibb's cancer drug Dasatin...
13 Jul, 2012, 02.35 AM IST
- No applications pending from pharmaceutical companies seeking compulsory licenses: Government
The government has clarified that no applications are pending from pharmaceutical companies seeking compulsory licences for producing low-c...
09 May, 2012, 10.05 PM IST
- Natco Pharma bags licence to sell Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar
The government has allowed a local drugmaker Natco Pharma to make and sell a patented cancer drug at a fraction of the price charged by Ger...
13 Mar, 2012, 02.19 AM IST
- Natco may seek compulsory licence for Bayer's cancer drug
Natco Pharma plans to seek a compulsory licence to make Bayer AG's Nexavar in India, invoking a provision in local laws that allows generic...
24 Jan, 2011, 06.18 AM IST
- Govt curbs sale of flu drug Zanamivir
The government is set to put Zanamivir, the only swine flu drug that is freely available in the market, currently, under restricted sale ca...
29 Aug, 2009, 12.49 AM IST