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.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines on pre-clinical and clinical studies for the Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani (ASU) medicines through a notification of draft rules adding new rule in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1945.

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.