-The Times of India MUMBAI: The government on Thursday issued the long-pending drug price control order, paving the way for the implementation of national pharmaceutical pricing policy, which will lead to a reduction in prices of medicines on an average by 20-25%, and in some life-saving ones, by up to 80%. Prices of 652 formulations under 27 therapeutic areas like anti-allergic (cetrizine), cardiac (aten), gastro-intestinal medicines (ocid), pain-killers ( paracetamol) and anti-diabetic...
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Uniting the Nation: Asghar Ali Engineer’s Struggle for Preservation of Plural Ethos-Ram Puniyani
-Countercurrents.org The events of last over two decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a major obstacle to social peace and process of development. In India while the communal violence began with the Jabalpur riot of 1961, it is from last couple of decades especially from 1980s that the divisive politics has tried to drive a wedge between different...
More »Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has no cash, owns a 1996 Maruti car
-IANS Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not have any cash in hand and owns a 1996 Maruti car, unlike many of his colleagues. This was revealed by the affidavit he submitted to the returning officer in Assam on Wednesday while filing his nomination papers for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections. Manmohan Singh stated that his total annual income is Rs 40,51,964. The Prime Minister also declared his total movable assets to be...
More »Government to increase bonds value for rural medical service to Rs 5L and Rs 10L
-The Times of India GANDHINAGAR: Nitin Patel, state health and family welfare minister said that the state goverment has decided to take a Rs 5 lakh bond from students at government-funded colleges. This is as security to ensure they serve three years in rural areas. Those who do not serve in rural areas after their studies will have to forfeit the amount. Earlier the amount was only Rs 1.5 lakh, so...
More »Age of graft -CP Chandrasekhar
-Frontline Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit expense of the many. Liberalisation is one such period. IT cannot be verified and may not be true. But, the view that the record of graft and corruption during the two-term, nine-year rule of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the worst in India's post-Independence...
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