-IndiaToday.in Moon Beverages (Coca-Cola) and Varun Beverages (PepsiCo) have been accused of breaking the terms of their LICences by failing to meet their requirements to recharge groundwater. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently imposed a fine of Rs 25 crore on PepsiCo and Coca-Cola for illegally extracting groundwater from the land at their respective manufacturing plants located in Uttar Pradesh. Moon Beverages (Coca-Cola) and Varun Beverages (PepsiCo) have been accused of breaking the...
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'One in Seven Persons in Punjab Are Dependent on Addictive Substances': Report -Vivek Gupta
-TheWire.in In a major concern, the report by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, notes among those consuming opioids or 'chitta', the number of injecting drug users has gone up considerably. Chandigarh: One in seven (15%) in Punjab are currently dependent on addictive substances, both LICit and ilLICit. In absolute numbers, it translates into 40 lakh people, a new report by Chandigarh-based Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and...
More »Understanding the Draft India Data Accessibility & Use PoLICy, 2022 -Anushka Jain and Apar Gupta
-The Hindu * What are the main provisions of the draft document? Is the Government going to monetise pubLIC data? The story so far: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) on February 21, 2022 released a poLICy proposal titled as, “Draft India Data Accessibility & Use PoLICy, 2022”. The poLICy aims to, “radically transform India’s ability to harness pubLIC sector data”. The proposals of the Draft Data Accessibility PoLICy has...
More »India’s economy and the challenge of informality -R Nagaraj and Radhicka Kapoor
-The Hindu PoLICy efforts to formalise the economy will have limited results as the bulk of informal units are petty producers Since 2016, the Government has made several efforts to formalise the economy. Currency demonetisation, introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), digitalisation of financial transactions and enrolment of informal sector workers on numerous government Internet portals are all meant to encourage the formalisation of the economy. But why the impetus...
More »Voluntary LICensing Agreements between MPP and Big Pharma – Increasing Monopoly Power -Richa Chintan
-NewscLICk.in The recent agreements between Medicine Patent Pool and Big Pharma are being projected as benevolent gestures from pharma companies in sharing their patented technologies with other countries. The fact is it is working towards cementing its monopoly power further. The development of anti-viral oral pills to combat COVID-19 will, hopefully, make the fight against the pandemic more promising. While Merck has developed the anti-viral pill Molnupiravir, Pfizer has come up with...
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