-The Times of India Strong control over morphine — a highly effective painkiller that has left millions of Indians in needless pain — has left India red-faced on the global stage. Calling use of opioid analgesics like morphine "sub-optimal" in India, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday asked India to immediately reassess regulatory requirements on the dispensing of essential medicines like morphine to ensure their wider availability and accessibility besides sensitizing...
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Non-subsidized LPG refill at Rs 883, set to go up further- Piyush Pandey
-The Economic Times Housewives can expect tough times ahead maintaining household budgets as all indicators suggest that prices of non-subsidized domestic cooking gas cylinders are expected to go up till March, 2013, much before they exhaust their quota of another three subsidized cooking gas cylinders. This is because the price of domestic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or cooking gas) has been linked to international gas prices which typically shoots up during the...
More »FDI in retail must be measured by benefits for consumer & economy, not just for farmers
-The Economic Times The recent decision of the government to allow FDI in multi-brand retail trade has attracted heated debate and emotive reactions. Though the main consideration for allowing FDI in retail is not its benefit for farm sector, the debate has predominantly focused on threats and benefits to the country's farmers and the farm sector. InteRestingly, the main stakeholders, i.e., farmers, have not reacted much to the policy decision and...
More »Cap on subsidised LPG cylinders will affect mid-day meal scheme: Mamata Banerjee
-PTI KOLKATA: Accusing the Central government of not thinking about students while policy making, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders will badly hit the mid-day meal scheme. "This is a very sensitive matter. The Central Government has never thought of the fate of poor school children ....There is a fear that these school children may have to go without food in schools due to...
More »No storage space for bumper stock in country's food bowl
-The Times of India CHANDIGARH/AMBALA/YAMUNANAGAR/KURUKSHETRA: Even as Punjab and Haryana governments are getting ready for procurement of paddy from October 1, the previously stocked wheat has not been cleared from mandis across the two states. The storage houses and government godowns are packed with previous year's produce, leaving no space for the fresh produce in the country's food bowl. Various food agencies have stocked 1.45 crore tonne wheat and paddy in...
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