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
How online pharmacies have landed in a regulatory limboThe lack of regulatory clarity is imperiling India’s online pharmacy sector. While the digital business has grown rapidly in the past few y...
29 May, 2023, 07.20 PM IST
Chemists' body urges cabinet secy to ban online pharmaciesThe chemists's body has alleged that no further action has been taken, despite notices being served on various online pharmacies by the Dru...
27 May, 2023, 10.33 PM 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
E-pharma companies talk rules with officials at G20 Goa meetPlatforms to submit formal presentation via industry associations before potential regulation.
21 Apr, 2023, 06.01 AM IST
Centre mulls regulations, stringent action against e-pharmacies amid concerns over data privacy, malpracticesThe New Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2023, seeks to replace the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940. The draft bill whic...
13 Mar, 2023, 11.01 PM IST
E-commerce needs clarity on sale of prescription medicinesIts mandatory for e-pharmacies to register with Central Licencing Authority and they are restricted from selling narcotics, tranquilisers a...
28 Jan, 2020, 04.37 PM IST
Central drugs regulator asks states, UTs to stop online sale of medicinesDCGI has asked all drug regulators in states and Union Territories to prohibit sale of drugs by online pharmacies.
04 Dec, 2019, 08.40 PM 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
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
Madras High Court stays ban on online sale of medicineThe interim stay will be in place until the centre notifies statutory rules for online trade of medicines.
02 Jan, 2019, 06.45 PM IST
No restrictions on online sales of medicines for now: Madras HCThe bench has reserved its orders on the plea to stay an earlier court order that banned the sale of medicines online from December 20, whi...
21 Dec, 2018, 10.05 AM IST
Madras High Court reserves order on lifting e-pharmacies banThe online pharmacies industry as a whole rakes in revenues of around Rs 100-150 crore every month, with the industry seeing annual turnove...
21 Dec, 2018, 07.10 AM IST
No online sale of medicines till norms in place, says Delhi High CourtThe observations by the bench were made while hearing the applications moved by some online pharmacies seeking to be impleaded in the matte...
18 Dec, 2018, 05.43 PM IST
Chemists to take e-pharmacies to courtOnline pharmacies are gearing up for the fight in the hopes that it would clarify misconceptions about process they follow.
09 Jul, 2016, 06.29 AM IST
Brick-and-mortar pharmacies selling medicines without demanding prescription: StudyThe committee, set up last October following a strike by chemists for similar reasons, is finalising recommendations to regulate e-pharmaci...
07 Jul, 2016, 10.20 AM IST
- Social media new tool for illegal drug trade, says Narcotics Control Bureau
"Illegal Internet pharmacy is very new emerging trend and it is very infinite," director general of NCB O P S Malik said while seeking effe...
28 Feb, 2012, 10.47 PM IST