Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has said the party cannot afford the spectacle of its ministers and state presidents running away from a tough contest. Anita Katyal reports Barring a few......
Sheela Bhatt gets the inside story of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs meeting that finally decided to steeply increase the price of natural gas. Sources say that Finance Minister P......
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday accepted the resignation of five ministers belonging to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which withdrew support to the United Progressive Alliance government on......
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday demanded that Union Fertiliser Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam nominee M K Alagiri should be sacked in connection with the alleged......
Parliament on Thursday passed a bill that prohibits transfer of specified toxic chemicals from and to a country which is not party to the Chemical Weapons Convention. The Chemical Weapons......
The government on Thursday said the new drug policy, which aims at bringing more medicines under price control, has been notified."The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy (NPPP-2012) approved by......
Eight commonly prescribed anti-cancer drugs will soon enter India's National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM).The entry assumes significance in the backdrop of a Supreme Court directive to the......
The government is in talks with pharmaceutical companies for ensuring availability of cancer drugs at a minimal price at their low-cost pharmacy chain Jan Aushadhi stores across the country. "We......
The government on Thusday said it is examining a proposal for setting up a venture capital fund to promote drug discovery in India. "The department of pharamceutical is in the process of examining......
Several Indian fertiliser companies are in talks with foreign firms to set up production units jointly, the government said. "... various Indian fertiliser entities are in dialogue with the......