While holding that one of the main tasks ahead for the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) to ensure availability of medicines in far flung and inaccessible areas of the country, its newly-appointed chairman Dr S M Jharwal has sent a stern warning to the companies against any attempt to 'circumvent the price fixation and permissible price increase'.

President gives accent to Law forbidding arrest in offenses carrying upto seven years imprisonment. As reported earlier that the President has granted assent to the law past nearly three week back by the parliament which brings about major changes in the Criminal Procedure Code. This newly enacted law takes away the powers of the police to arrest in cases of alleged offenses which carry a maximum sentence upto seven years of imprisonment.

New Delhi: Ministry of Law and Justice has notified the long awaited Drugs and Cosmetics (Amendment) Act, 2008 (26 of 2008) on 5th Dec, 2008 in Gazette of India (extraordinary) Part-II, section 1.