India continues to maintain its streak of world-beating economic growth after GDP for the March quarter beat all expectations with a 6.1 per cent expansion that helped push the annual growth rate to 7.2 per cent. After this, the Indian economy is now USD 3.3 trillion in size. Asia’s third-largest economy beat all estimates to grow at 6.1 per cent in January-March, the last quarter of the 2022-23 fiscal, up from...
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US FDA Flags Lapses by Indian Firm's Eye Drops Linked to Vision Loss and Deaths - Tabassum Barnagarwala
Scroll.in The US Food and Drug Administration has found a series of violations in the manufacturing process and sterilisation methods adopted by Global Pharma, the Indian manufacturer of an eye drop that has been linked to 68 cases of eye infection in America, including eight cases of vision loss and three deaths. The company recalled its product, EzriCare Artificial Tears Eye Drop, early in February. The over-the-counter product has been linked to...
More »‘The only journalist who cared’: Memory of scribe killed after refinery report lingers on in Maharashtra - Tanishka Sodhi
Shashikant Warishe was mowed down allegedly by the subject of his last report on a controversial refinery - Newslaundry “He was the only journalist who covered the refinery protests…From the time the protests began until now, he covered everything…other newspapers barely gave coverage to the issue. People here liked him a lot because he was the sole journalist who cared about their issues.” That’s how Dipak Joshi remembers his friend Shashikant Warishe,...
More »Bill to reform insurance sector may come in monsoon session - Subhash Narayan
The draft bill allows insurance companies the freedom to sell different financial products Mint The government is likely to introduce the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill 2022 in the monsoon session of Parliament to bring deep reforms in the insurance sector, including a provision for composite insurance licence and flexibility in entry barriers, two people aware of the development said. According to them, stakeholder consultation on the draft bill is expected to be...
More »FMCG growth slows in Oct-Dec Quarter - Sharleen D'Souza
- Business Standard India’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector grew at a slower pace of 7.6 per cent, in the October-December 2022 quarter, compared to the previous quarter as well as October-December 2021, Business Standard reported, citing data from market research firm NielsenIQ. Price growth has tapered and volumed remain weak. Price growth during the quarter was 7.9 per cent, lower than 9.9 per cent in the previous quarter. FMCG firms were...
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