-The Telegraph New Delhi: The government's PRIce cap on coronary stents has not deterred the health-care industry from continuing to offer hospitals profit opportunities of tens of thousands of rupees on other kinds of stents, concerned doctors and health-care industry representatives said.     The National Pharmaceutical PRIcing Authority (NPPA), the government's PRIce regulator, had on February 15 imposed a cap of about Rs 30,000 on coronary stents. But hospitals can continue to...

-The Times of India PUNE: Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday stressed the need for a regulatory mechanism for CBSE schools and said they will be made "accountable" as far as quality of education and charging of "unreasonable" fees was concerned. "I welcome PRIvate investment in education as quality education is needed. But it has come to light that once they (CBSE schools) get affiliation, there are no restrictions on these schools....

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Congress today alleged that the Narendra Modi government was testing the waters on bringing agricultural income within the tax ambit and declared its intention to build a movement of farmers if the idea was implemented. "This government is harassing industrialists, traders, students, political rivals... only one section of the society was left, that is farmers," Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said. "The statements coming from important people in...

-Scroll.in/ IndiaSpend.com Uttar Pradesh tops the list of under-five mortality. Despite recently revealed improvements, PRImitive sanitation is killing, retarding the growth or leaving susceptible to disease millions of Indian children, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of the latest available national health data. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Chhattisgarh had India’s highest under-five mortality, higher stunting (low height-for-age) rates and higher prevalence of diarrhoea due to lack of “improved sanitation” –...

-The Hindu We need a legal mechanism to ensure that all generics are of the same standard as the innovator product The PRIme Minister’s recent announcement on making it mandatory for doctors to prescribe only the generic name, and not brand name of a drug, has led to a flutter. If enacted, the move will make it illegal for Indian doctors to write out a prescription for the trademark of the drug,...