-The Economic Times The Union Cabinet has okayed a new price-control formula for pharmaceuticals, which seeks to cap prices at the arithmetic average of all drugs with more than 1% market share in any therapeutic segment that is to be brought under price control. Given that the existing system of fixing prices of select drugs is on the basis of costs, which is rigid, intrusive and prone to manipulation as well,...
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Ache over pill prices
-The Telegraph The Union cabinet today approved a controversial drug pricing policy that had been opposed by the health ministry, the finance ministry and public health policy experts who fear it will legitimise high prices of medicines. A government source said the cabinet has cleared the drug pricing policy that health experts suspect will determine caps on prices of 348 drugs through a formula based on market prices of drugs rather than...
More »RTI activist stabbed 27 times to death in Kandivli, 2 held -Nitasha Natu
-The Times of India MUMBAI: An RTI activist was stabbed to death 27 times on a Kandivli (W) street on Tuesday night by two men. Within 12 hours, the Kandivli police solved the case with the arrest of both the accused from Nashik. The deceased, Kapurchand Gupta, was also an office-bearer of the hawkers' association. Gupta was targeted by the key accused as he was trying to wean away customers from...
More »Bihar Chhath tragedy: 9 children among 15 dead in stampede in Patna -Manish Kumar and Amit Chaturvedi
-NDTV Patna: Fifteen people, including nine children, were killed and many others injured in a stampede in Patna on Monday. The incident took place during the Chhath puja at Adalatghat Ghat on the bank of river Ganga. Patna District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar said, "There are total 15 dead bodies and their post-mortem was done last night. Out of these, nine are children." He also said that two of the injured are undergoing...
More »In Dharmapuri, Dalit students discriminated against in schools -R Arivanantham
-The Hindu Caste Hindu students keep away, even sit separately in class DHARMAPURI: Even as they are yet to get over the November 7 attack on their houses, the children of Natham, Kondampatti and Anna Nagar Dalit colonies in Naikkankottai village have run into another problem in one of the schools: caste Hindu students are keeping away from them for the last two days at the Government High School. The students are being...
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