The Central Government has directed Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) to sign gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) with NTPC and 10 other city gas distribution (CGD) companies to supply gas from the KG-D6 fields.

Recently, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha member Tapan Sen had, in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, pointed out to interventions and action of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to help private gas and power producers while ignoring the interests of its own PSUs.

In a case of illegal drug trial, a man from Indore “discovered” through local newspapers that he was an uninformed guinea-pig for a German drug firm. The newspapers reported the matter after it was raised in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly.

Dhananjay Shrivastava did not know trials of Olodaterol — a drug for respiratory ailments — were conducted on him, till his name figured on the list of 1,112 victims of illegal drug trials made public by the Assembly in response to a question from MLA Bala Bachchan on March 1.

The alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by pharmaceutical firms in the country, has come under the judicial scrutiny with the Supreme Court seeking the Centre's stand on a plea for an independent probe into it.

A bench of justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale issued notices to the Centre, the Union Health ministry and the Medical Council of India seeking their replies on a Public Interest Litigation alleging that the country is being used for illegal clinical trials by multinational pharmaceutical firms because laxities in implementing laws here.

Bhopal : Houses will be provided to about three lakh poor families living in slums of six cities of the state under Rajiv Awas Yojna. These cities are Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Gwalior, Ujjain and Sagar. An appeal will be made to the Union Government to bear 80 percent cost under the scheme while 10 percent each will be shared by the State Government and the beneficiary. At present there is a provision that the Union Government will bear 50 percent, the State Government 20 percent and the beneficiary 30 percent of the cost.

Copy of EOW report on irregularities has been leaked to the media
Despite its details being published in the local Press, the Madhya Pradesh Government is refusing to comment on the investigation report submitted by the Economic Offences Wing on alleged illegal drug trials conducted by Government doctors in Indore.

The EOW submitted its investigation report on irregularities in trials conducte

The state government has allotted Rs 41 lakh 83 thousand 525 to the farmers on non-sprouting of their crops, due to natural calamity in 7 districts. Out of the amount, Rs 35 lakh will be given to the farmers for havoc on crops by natural wrecking.

Mahim Pratap Singh

Bhopal/ Indore: Adjuvants with severe physiological side effect have been administered to hundreds of children during vaccine trials conducted at a government hospital in Indore over the last few years, and that too without the approved Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).

The trials conducted on at least 836 children at the Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, the paediatric div

Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, once said that to look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of fibrous tumour. It is probably an apt description of how India