-The Hindu Seven years after the first warning in June 2006 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and five years after the Department of Justice initiated legal proceedings against the company, Ranbaxy is back in the news for the same wrong reasons. Last fortnight it pleaded guilty to felony charges in the U.S., admitting to selling adulterated drugs with intent to defraud, not reporting that its drugs failed...
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USFDA scrutiny: Will pharma majors like Ranbaxy, Wockhardt be affected in long-term? -G Seetharaman
-The Economic Times Japanese companies do not mind erring on the side of caution. They are known to think longer and harder than their counterparts in other countries about big decisions, especially when it comes to entering a new market or acquiring a foreign company. But Japan's third biggest drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo would now wish it had spent more time doing due diligence on Ranbaxy Labs, in which it bought a...
More »Ranbaxy's dark chapter-Bhupesh Bhandari
-The Business Standard Why have Indian authorities woken up to the Ranbaxy case only now? The matter had been simmering for several years The Ranbaxy affair is one of the darkest chapters of India's business history. The company has admitted it fudged data so that it could launch its products in the United States. It has now paid $500 million as a penalty to settle the case. It is worse than Ramalinga...
More »‘States have no inherent power to frame mining policy’
-The Hindu Act states regulation of mines and mineral development comes within Centre's purview: SC New Delhi: States have no power to frame a mining policy dehors the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act and the Mineral Concession Rules. Reiterating this point, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed review petitions filed by the Centre, JSW Steel Ltd and others seeking review of the September 2010 judgment in the ‘Sandur Manganese and Iron...
More »Landmark verdict -V Venkatesan
-Frontline The Supreme Court's ruling against Novartis' patent claim for the cancer drug Glivec paves the way for generic drug companies to keep crucial, life-saving drugs affordable to the common people. By V. VENKATESAN IN their 112-page judgment delivered on April 1, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai of the Supreme Court began with a simple proposition: in order to understand what the law really is, it is essential to...
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