-Live Mint Cipla Ltd won a landmark patent case against Swiss drug maker F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in the Delhi high court on Friday over the Indian company’s generic copy of lung cancer drug Tarceva after a four-year court battle. Justice manmohan singh observed in his 280-page judgement that it had been scientifically proven that Cipla’s generic version was a polymorph B variant of Roche’s patented drug and that it didn’t actually...
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PM's speech on wildlife changed thrice in a day
-The Times of India The official version of Prime Minister manmohan singh's speech at the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) on Wednesday changed thrice in the space of one day. In a highly unusual sequence of events, the version of Singh's speech released by the PMO on its website on Wednesday was withdrawn on Thursday afternoon only to return in its original form by late evening. The flip-flop-flip is perhaps the...
More »Govt Approves Rs 10,901 Cr Funds for Crop Loan Subsidy
-Outlook Government today decided to release Rs 10,901 crore to banks as interest subvention for giving crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh to farmers in the current fiscal. The Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister manmohan singh decided "to continue interest subvention to Public Sector Banks, Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), Cooperatives Banks and Nabard to enable them to provide short- term crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh to farmers at 7...
More »75% of Parliament time wasted, second worst session clocked-Himanshi Dhawan
-The Economic Times The monsoon session that ends on Friday will enter the hall of shame as the second least productive session of the 15th Parliament with legislators having worked for only a quarter of the scheduled time. Only four bills were passed in the month-long session leaving a backlog of more than 100 pending legislations, some as old as 25 years old. According to data analysed by PRS Legislative Research, Lok Sabha...
More »Shadowboxing over coal-Brinda Karat
-The Indian Express A coal mine worker in Jharkhand and an expert on the coal industry called to protest against what he called was the noora kushti (shadowboxing) going on in Delhi. The power of the coal players was earlier seen in Jharkhand politics, he said, but now we see it in Delhi. Our players are small, yours are big and powerful. With the CBI itself unearthing prima facie evidence of...
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