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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Indian Govt. Bans 344 Drugs, Including Vicks Action 500 Extra, Corex & Sumo. Know The Name Of Other Drugs

One of India’s most popular medicines for cough and cold, Vicks Action 500 Extra, will not be available in chemist shops any more after the government banned fixed dose combination drugs.

Apart from Vicks, India has banned the manufacture and sale of more than 300 combination medicines, including two widely used cough syrups, being sold without government approval.The move is aimed at curbing the misuse of such medicines in India, where nearly half the drugs sold in 2014 were so called “fixed dose combinations.”

On Monday, drug majors Pfizer and Abbott stopped sale of their popular cough syrups Corex and Phensedyl respectively, after the government banned 344 fixed dose combinations (FDCs) drugs.The two companies, however, said they are exploring “all options” to counter the impact of ban.

What are combination drugs

Combination drugs are used worldwide to improve patients’ compliance, as it is easier to get patients to take one drug rather than several. But inconsistent enforcement of drug laws in India has led to the proliferation of hundreds of such medicines entering the market based on approval from regulators of individual states, rather than the central government.

In 2014, India set up a committee to review more than 6,000 combinations that had entered the market based only on state regulators’ approval. Policymakers gave pharmaceutical companies a chance to retroactively prove the safety and efficacy of these drugs by submitting data on their drugs.

The committee was tasked with classifying the drugs into rational, irrational, and those that need further studies, said KL Sharma, a joint secretary at the health ministry.Now based on responses (and) assessment of products, more than 300 drugs have been prohibited,” he told Reuters.

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Sunday, January 10, 2016

PM Modi releases book authored by Jain Acharya

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday released a book titled “Maru Bharat Saru Bharat “(My India Noble India) written by Jain Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj through video conference.

Addressing the book release function organized by Sahitya Satkar Samiti of Ratnatrayee Trust held in Mumbai, the Prime Minister lauded the works of Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj and said penning 300 books was not a small achievement.

Several aspects of life have found their reflection in the works of Maharaj Saheb.The Prime Minister said that these books resonate his “divya vani” which reflects the urge to give back to the society and that ‘rashtra (national) dharma’ is above every dharma(religion).

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Mysterious flying object sighted over ISRO centre

Mysterious flying object has reportedly been sighted by shepherds over ISRO’s Mahendragiri centre and neighbouring forest areas.Police said the shepherds, who were grazing cattle, claimed to have seen a mysterious object flying over the cryogenic testing centre of ISRO on Monda

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Manipal University Students Design Solar Powered Car

Manipal University Students Design Solar Powered Car

SolarMobil, a team of 27 students from Manipal University, has built a futuristic automobile, which runs solely on solar power. The car, named SERVe Solar Electric Road Vehicle, was unveiled at Tata Power Solar Headquarters.

The car’s custom-fit solar panels have been designed and manufactured by Tata Power Solar. The team began working on the project in 2012 with Manipal University as their workspace. Cars are our passion and we wanted to make a model that is conducive to a green and sustainable environment. Everything is done by us right from cutting to welding,” said Jeet Bannerjee, Team Manager, SolarMobil.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Saradha scam Madan Mitra resigns

West Bengal Transport Minister Madan Mitra, who is an accused in the Saradha Chit-fund scam, resigned from his post on Wednesday.The Calcutta High Court on November 5 had ordered Mitra to be kept under house arrest till November 17. The TMC leader had got a bail in this case by an Alipur court on October 31.

The court had also questioned that how the lower court granted the bail to him when the High Court refused it in August.CBI had arrested Mitra in connection with the scam in December last year.he resignation came just hours after CBI pleaded before the Calcutta High Court to cancel Mitra’s bail citing that he is still functioning as a cabinet minister in the state government.

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Saturday, September 19, 2015

gudiyam caves documentary film Stone Age Rock Shelters

Rocks on a roll -gudiyam caves

CHENNAI:

Ramesh Yanthra and V. Vasantha Kumar’s documentary Gudiyam Caves: Stone Age Rock Shelters of South India takes you on a fascinating journey into the prehistoric rock shelters

Paleolithic caves hidden away in the hills 70km from Chennai? Well, who would have known? A handful of archaeologists, geologists, and forest officials apparently. And a former student of Government of Fine Arts College, who was so fascinated by the caves he stumbled across on a trekking holiday that he decided to make a 33-minute documentary about them. It was screened at the Cannes Festival this May.(GUDIYAM DOCUMENTARY FILM – ROCKS ON A ROLL)

"The caves are in the Gudiyam village, in the Thiruvallur district near Poondi reservoir, and I came across them three years ago," says Ramesh Yanthra and vasanth, who filmed the self-funded documentary last year. (DOCUMENTARY MAKES IT TO CANNES)"I saw a signboard in the village which said that this was a site of Paleolithic people and I was so intrigued that I visited the caves," adds Yanthra, who showed the documentary to a select audience on Saturday at the Tagore Film Centre (NFDC preview theatre).

Geologists in the city say the Gudiyam caves were originally discovered in 1863 by British geologist Robert Bruce Foote, who documented the existence of this prehistoric habitat in the Geological Survey of India (GSI). Subsequent digs by Archaeological Survey of India experts a century later uncovered tools made of stones used in the Paleolithic Era, more than two million years ago.

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