In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court of India dismissed a plea by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Monday for a patent on its cancer drug Glivec, paving way for more affordable life saving cancer drugs. "Generic companies will have a levy that will allow them to survive in India for a considerable period of time," said Anand Grover, lawyer, Cancer Patients Aid Association. ...
02:14 PM, Apr 01, 2013
The fast will take place at the 'Nadigar Sangam' premises in Tamil Nadu. ...
10:44 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The announcement for the special court where the trial of the two Italian marines will be conducted is expected on Monday. The announcement will be made by the Attorney General. ...
09:43 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Atletico Madrid squandered a chance to reclaim second place in the Spanish league when they were held to a 1-1 home draw by Valencia on Sunday. ...
09:33 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The fifth BRICS summit has promoted unity among major emerging economies and injected fresh impetus into the cooperation mechanism, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday. ...
04:58 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Former Mayor of Patiala Municipal Corporation Jaspal Singh Pardhan, who was given a clean chit by Special Investigation Team (SIT) in a murder case, on Sunday said his future would be decided by the party high command. Addressing a news conference in Patiala at his residence, he said that he had resigned on the moral grounds after party high command has asked him to do. ...
03:13 AM, Apr 01, 2013
The new Advanced Facebookers program is being currently tested amongst a small group of users in New Zealand. ...
12:01 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Anupam Kher has tweeted a list of 26 lesser known facts about Neeraj Pandey's 'Special 26'. ...
02:08 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Teaching strategies based on texts by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare may boost communication and socialising skills in autistic kids, scientists say. ...
12:42 PM, Mar 31, 2013
An 18-year-old Delhi University student has alleged that he was sexually assaulted by his Facebook friend on Saturday. The incident took place when the boy went to meet the accused whom he had befriended on the social networking site. ...
07:35 AM, Mar 31, 2013
In an apparent move to break the deadlock over its stalled project in West Bengal, IT major Infosys is sending a delegation to West Bengal to find a way to resolve the issue, Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said on Saturday. ...
07:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Major depositors in Cyprus's biggest bank will lose around 60 per cent of savings over 100,000 euros, its central bank confirmed on Saturday, sharpening the terms of a bailout that has shaken European banks but saved the island from bankruptcy. ...
04:08 AM, Mar 31, 2013
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was constituted to investigate the recent murder of the city's former mayor Jaspal Pradhan's daughter-in-law, on Saturday gave a clean chit to him in the case. The SIT filed the chargesheet in the court of Judicial Magistrate (Ist class) in Patiala in which it gave clean chit to the former mayor in his daughter-in-law Parampreet Kaur's murder case due to "circumstantial evidences", official sources...
03:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
The trial in the Swiss woman gangrape case began in Datia on Saturday with two prosecution witnesses recording their statements before a special court. All the six accused in the case were produced before Additional District Judge (ADJ) Jitendra Kumar Sharma, prosecution sources said. ...
01:15 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Liaqat Shah was on Saturday sent to judicial custody till April 12 by a Delhi court. A controversy broke over Shah's arrest by Delhi Police, which claimed that he was a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist who had come to the national capital to plan a suicide attack. However, the charges were contested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police saying that he was returning to the Valley for...
02:51 PM, Mar 30, 2013
In the upcoming commercial, Ranbir plays a simple working class man who wears dull clothes, large spectacles, dental braces, and a 90s style chevron moustache. ...
10:48 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Expressing anguish over decreasing values in judiciary, legal experts on Friday said people are losing faith in the system. "Values in the judiciary, from lower courts to Supreme Court, are sliding and people are losing faith in the system," Kadapa district Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy said. ...
01:07 AM, Mar 30, 2013
The governing body reminded referees that they had been authorisied 4 years ago to stop matches in case of racism incidents. ...
05:54 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Nokia said on Thursday that Indian tax officials had issued the Finnish mobile phone maker with a fine although the Delhi High Court issued a stay on the demand. ...
03:14 PM, Mar 28, 2013
