The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has decided to have one price for basic utility condoms and the other for pleasure condoms.
MicroPort entered the market on Feb 15 and its stent was used in a Mumbai hospital.
Demerging print and TV news businesses will allow for separate investment by interested players.
Pitch Madison says advertising expenditure will grow 13.5% this calendar year
Aneesh Phadnis and Veena Mani find out what the manufacturers and the hospitals have to say.
Television as a category would see a lower rate of growth at 8% vis-a-vis 10% last year.
Netmed plans to procure from drug manufacturers and sell to pharmacies it has tie-ups with, and to spread its network to all tier-II and tier-III cities.
Sale of antibiotics is under the scanner. Government to go tough on misuse of these drugs.
HUL, the country's largest FMCG company, saw sales volume fall by 4% for the December quarter.
First case filed after new norms come into force, NCLT admits plea.
The upgrade, said Icra, takes into account the "robust internal accrual generation, leading to low reliance on debt, as well as gearing levels, and strong debt protection metrics".
Delhi-based Nilesh Sharma, among the first IPs, said while the framework is in the initial stage and might have teething trouble, the opportunity is immense in the long run.
Increase of 10% to 12% likely in a bid to improve citizens' mood after demonetisation.
The first of a six-part series examines how the leather workers at Dharavi are coping after five weeks of demonetisation.
Although the markets could see a knee-jerk reaction, they rule out a sharp fall.
Bali Padda will head the second-largest toymaker in the world.
Double whammy for consumer firms, where the top line will remain subdued due to demonetisation and margins will squeeze owing to a crude oil spike and rupee depreciation, reports Viveat Susan Pinto/Business Standard from Mumbai.
Ban on high-value currency sends advertising industry into a tailspin.
'As the world changes, we will be on a constant change programme too,' advertising agency J Walter Thompson Global Chief Executive Officer Tamara Ingram and South Asia CEO Tarun Rai tell Viveat Susan Pinto.
A Nielsen report found that biscuits, salty snacks, toilet soap, shampoo, washing powder and skin creams were reporting a sharp decline in sales due to demonetisation, reports Viveat Susan Pinto from Mumbai.
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