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Little is heard of India’s National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) and its Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), these days. This is despite the fact that most drug prices have zoomed by over 60 to 100 percent since last year. Thanks to the lack of actions by the regulatory authority, pharmaceutical companies are having a field day. Profit-wise, the industry is booming in the domestic market. The world’s third largest manufacturer of pharmaceuticals by volume never had it so good. And, this is substantially at the cost of a large proportion of the country’s population whose purchasing power is extremely low.

The results of the three by polls in West Bengal announced on Sunday indicate major signals for the coming period of the state politics as also the shaping of the opposition unity on national plane to fight the BJP in the coming state assembly elections in 2022 and 2023 culminating in the Lok Sabha elections in April/May 2024.

Kolkata: FC Goa are the new Durand Cup owners.

Chennai: Bengaluru's Hemanth Muddappa (Mantra Racing) overcame his rivals without much ado and completed a double in the second round of the Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Sunday.

New Delhi: It was a gold rush for India as the country bagged four of the six yellow medals at stake and claimed two more silvers to surge to the top of the medal standings at the ISSF Jr World Championship, in Lima, Peru.

New Delhi: India’s Junior Women’s Skeet team of Ganemat Sekhon, Raiza Dhillon, and Areeba Khan, blanked Italy 6-0 to clinch gold at ISSF Junior World Championship in Lima, Peru.

Chennai: Bengaluru’s Mohd Rafiq dominated the opening day’s proceedings with a grand double while local challenger, Soundari Sindy topped the Girls category. in the second round of the Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Saturday.

Chennai: Some 100 die-hard petrolheads will congregate at the MMRT here this weekend for the second round of the Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship with some super-quick superbikes along with homegrown machines in action.

New Delhi: Olympian Manu Bhaker won the gold as India bagged five medals on the second day of the Junior World Shooting Championship in Lima, Peru, late on Thursday.

New Delhi: Two-time Olympian star striker SV Sunil, on Friday, announced his retirement from International hockey and in the process became the third player to do so in two days.