-Livemint India decides to frame policy that will incentivize local manufacturing of raw materials, bulk drugs New delhi: Six years back when China shut factories making drug ingredients to reduce pollution levels before Beijing Olympics, Indian bulk drug makers which depend on them suffered. Now, India has decided to frame a policy which will incentivize local manufacturing of raw materials and bulk drugs, and discourage Indian pharmaceutical firms from importing them. Please click...

-The Times of India NEW delhi: Women empowerment may be the key slogan for every government since independence, but the findings of a government report show women still lag way behind men in having a say in decision making and in their participation in economic activity. The Central Statistics Office (CSO)'s publication "Women and Men in India 2014" found that women occupied seven out of 45 ministerial positions in the Narendra Modi's...

-The Indian Express   The NDA government's move to amend the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 in the coming winter session of Parliament has run into rough weather following differences between various government departments over whether government servants and their family members should declare their assets, and whether such information should be made public or not. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) is learnt to have sided with the bureaucracy in...

-DNA Activists want PM Narendra Modi to investigate manipulation of land data New delhi: delhi's total geographical area is around 1.48 lakh hectares and if government's own data - National Project on Organic Farming (NPOF) - is to be believed, over 1 lakh hectare was brought under organic farming. Considering delhi's population and spread of residential areas, the figures look unbelievable, especially when data points that the very next year the area...

-The Telegraph New delhi: Supreme Court today castigated the governments of Chhattisgarh and Bihar for providing inadequate and inaccurate data on missing children and for not adhering to its order on mandatory FIRs. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justices A.K. Sikri and Arun Misra, which heard representatives of both states, asked them to file fresh affidavits detailing the number of children rescued and the number of FIRs filed while...