CBD oil, found in marijuana, is gaining popularity for its pain-relieving properties. It's now legally available in India
The department also said there is nothing to suggest that the state authorities failed to address any shortage of COVID-19 drugs.
Health & family welfare ministry's proposal seeks to restrict sale of antibiotics to check self-medication.
An Indian doctor and his wife have pleaded guilty to charges of federal tax evasion and to illegally distributing weight loss medicines to patients, agreeing to pay nearly USD 5.2 million in restitution.
The Jamia Teachers Solidariry Associatio's report into the 2008 Jaipur blasts, titled 'The Case That Wasn't', makes for chilling reading. Vicky Nanjappa reports
In a relief to pharma majors, the Delhi high court today held as "illegal and unsustainable" the Centre's decision to put a ceiling on the price of condoms, including the luxury variety.
Lobby group tells USTR it has got assurance from India on compulsory licensing.
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"Human beings have the right to die with dignity." That's what the Supreme Court said on Friday while saying that passive euthanasia is permissible within guidelines. However, what is passive euthanasia? What is a living will? Here's all you need to know on the issue.
Films that amazed Aseem Chhabra at the El Gouna Film Festival in Egypt.
Britain has finalised 1 billion pounds worth of new trade and investment with India, creating over 6,500 jobs in the UK, to be signed off at a virtual summit between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Tuesday. The investments confirmed by Downing Street on Monday evening form part of an Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP), which will set the ambition to double the value of UK-India trade by 2030 and declare a shared intent to begin work towards a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA). "Like every aspect of the UK-India relationship, the economic links between our countries make our people stronger and safer," Johnson said.
An Indian-American man has been sentenced by a US court to 12 years in jail and ordered to pay $68 million for his involvement in an elaborate Internet scam that obtained a whopping $200 million by illegally selling addictive medicines to cyber customers and drug users.
"We state that the most precious fundamental 'right to life' unconditionally embraces even an undertrial. The consideration made herein is keeping in view the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case.
'Companies are threatening to terminate them or putting them on unpaid leave.'
'Till the time we do not remove fear in the minds of Muslims of India, how will we achieve peace?' asks the Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Gorakhpur, Radha Mohan Das Agarwal, who says he will resign as a member of the Uttar Pradesh assembly if any Indian Muslim of his constituency is evicted from the country during the Citizenship (Amendment) Act exercise.
Narcotics Control Bureau has asked pharma companies to evolve a voluntary code of conduct based on a "know-your-client principle" to prevent traffic of "illicit" medicines under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act to neighbouring count
"We are confined to health issue. It is in the interest of the state also that the accused gets better treatment," the bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and A S Bopanna observed.
The next hearing on Pfizer's plea is slated for March 21
Serious lapses at several non-metro airports like damaged X-ray machines, absence of explosive detectors and faulty metal detectors have been found in an audit carried by the aviation security agency BCAS.
A massive fire broke out in one of the tallest towers in Dubai on Friday morning, media reports said.
We may be witnessing a slow erosion of the democratic republic and the emergence of the police State, warns Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
The founder of the California-based Tri-Valley University, who destroyed the academic careers of several hundred Indian students in the United States, has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for running a sham university that served as a front for an immigration scam.
The Ig Nobel prizes honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then makes them think.
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Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia on Tuesday said the outfit's controversial yatra would continue as planned.
Gupta had alleged that AIIMS had illegally purged his seniority with "malafide intention" to punish him for refusing to act unprofessionally in the autopsy matter.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 10 images.
'Every adult has the right to ignore the tenets of any and every faith, so long as it does not harm somebody else,' says Devangshu Datta.
The former union minister has been remanded to custody for 5 days.
The Bombay Hemp Company offers goods fashioned out of hemp, the lesser known cousin of ganja.
Star Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal was cleared to resume international cricket on Saturday after his bowling action was found to be legal during a retest at an ICC-accredited facility in Chennai.
India battles big pharma over cough syrup abuse, reducing supplies
Addressing a press briefing, health ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said currently there are no approved therapies for COVID-19 and there is not enough evidence to claim that plasma therapy can be used for treatment of the disease.
In a major security breach at the Wagah-Attari border crossing with Pakistan, an NRI crashed his SUV into the security gates at the Attari Joint Check Post in the wee hours of Monday and reached the Zero line at the International Border.
Members of JD-U, RJD and Congress which have given enough hint of fighting together against BJP in the coming state assembly election next year, jointly rushed into the well of both the Houses demanding action against Dhankhar and his "close friend" Sushil Kumar Modi.
'It did not start as a Hindutva slogan.' 'It started to tease the TMC and slowly it got internalised and the BJP started countering with Jai Shri Ram slogans because Mamata was getting provoked.'
A birthing centre in Bengaluru is helping women make informed decisions about their pregnancy, right down to choosing how they have their baby.
'No one should make coronavirus a Hindu-Muslim issue.'
The Alams saw the magical spot while on a drive to the hills. A few years later they set up home and a small hand woven shawl business, hiring local weavers, using local wool and natural colours made of root, stem and flower.
