The veteran theatre actor-director was 65.
Ganesh Puja in Alibag taluka is about simplicity and minimalism. It's about quiet devotion too.
Ranbaxy whistleblower Dinesh Thakur tells Aziz Haniffa that a formal Congress hearing on spurious drugs from India is being sought.
Whistle-blower Dinesh Thakur tells briefing on US Capitol Hill: 'One in five medicines manufactured and distributed in India are spurious.' Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC.
Dinesh Thakur says he waved the red flag only after Ranbaxy didn't respond to his concerns.
Dinesh Thakur is now planning to start a new venture to help the industry and the US regulator avoid another Ranbaxy-like episode.
Dinesh Thakur is famous for exposing Ranbaxy safety problems
Dinesh Thakur pays homage to playwright Vijay Tendulkar.
'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'
'I always felt that Basu Chatterjee was a kind, gentle, man who truly believed that in directing films like Chhoti Si Baat, he was impacting our lives,' remembers Aseem Chhabra. 'He seemed to be on a mission to make us believe that the world could be a better place.'
The big companies too are responsible for the sub-standard drugs in the market.
Fixed-dose combinations are medicines that come mixed in a certain proportion.
In May this year, Ranbaxy had pleaded guilty to 'felony charges' for violating manufacturing norms and agreed to pay $500 million penalty to US authorities.
Can we ask the judges a simple question: You write judgments all the time to protect the judiciary from others. Will you write one on how to save the judiciary from the judges, too, asks Shekhar Gupta.
Singh brothers might be stopped by 'fit & proper' hurdle due to US drug norm violations; firm says confident of qualifying.
An International Policy Network report in 2010 found that seven per cent of drugs bought from wholesale traders were substandard, and 3.6 per cent of the drugs from traders contained no active ingredient whatsoever.
Whistle-blower Dinesh Thakur will speak on Made-in-India drugs at an event in Washington.
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