SPECIAL REPORT: Changing lifestyle has pushed the demand of nutritious supplements, seen stocked in the pharmacies nowadays. Here is a report on the growing nutrition merchandise in pharmacy retail, transforming the traditional business model.
There has been intense market competition and consolidation among providers of pharmaceutical products. In the retail pharmacy, the notable changes have been seen in closures of local independent pharmacies and growth in pharmacies located in supermarkets and mass merchandise stores.
Giant pharmacy chains like Guardian Pharmacy, Apollo, Religare and others similar to these are seen on the busiest street of Indian small and big towns. Not only do they fill prescriptions and sell OTC medicines, but are also offering wide variety of nutrition merchandise to the consumers.
Nothing comes between Salman Khan and record-breaking box-office numbers when it comes to his Eid releases—not even an ongoing court trial.
The Bollywood actor’s latest film, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, has become the fastest Bollywood film to earn Rs100 crore at the box office within India. In the first three days of its release—or the opening weekend—the film collected Rs102.60 crore.
Don't get taken in by the gushing noises around Bajrangi Bhaijaan. This Eid release is not an un-Salman Khan film. Actually, it is everything that a Salman Khan film is expected to be in recent times - a two-and-half-hour-long exercise establishing Khan as the human NREGA, the great saviour of the country's poor, ageing and (of course) women. Thus, you can also call these movies film-shaped definitions of the word 'irony'.
EXCLUSIVE: Combination drugs are considered an innovation of India's medicines industry but they are not as safe as they should be.
India has been called the pharmacy of the world. Many generic drugs are made there and much of its drug production is exported internationally. Thousands of fixed dose combination drugs – where two or more drugs are combined in a set ratio in a single dose form, usually a tablet or capsule – are formulated, made and sold within India.
Many FDCs are safe and effective. They are used in situations where both the drug combination and the doses needed are standardised and stable, for example, in the treatment of HIV, for Parkinson’s disease and in contraceptive pills.
SATIRE: Leading software services providers Comfy Inc. and PCS software solutions have decided to include the cost of coffee machines, air-conditioning, and internet broadband bills in the Cost-To-Company (CTC) of fresh recruits from campus.
Nilesh Nankaani senior recruiter at Comfy provided more details to the media on this matter. He said, “Last year we asked our HR analytics experts to analyze the data-set of all our coffee expenses, air-conditioning bills, and internet usage bills after 7:30 PM. After 1 year of deep dives into data they came back with results.
Salman Khan wants his innocence back with Bajrangi Bhaijaan. And he wants you to pay for it. Will you?
"This movie (Bajrangi Bhaijaan) needed sincerity and innocence which I had lost. Both, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo will bring back my sincerity and innocence," Salman said, sharing his Eid wish-list.
Salman is, obviously, not talking about the loss of 'innocence' of his screen avatar. On screen, he has stuck to the sterotype of a sweet-talking, doe-eyed do-gooder with a heart of gold, arms of steel and a 56-inch chest. Forget dark, villanous characters, Salman's reel-life avatars haven't even had a hint of grey.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Varanasi was cancelled due to heavy rains on Thursday for the third time in last 9 months. In order to set up the stage and make other arrangements for PM Modi’s visit to the city, at least Rs 33 crore were splurged. It included the expenses for setting up the stage, tents, security and hospitality arrangements.
The whopping Rs 33 crore could have been used to build 660 homes for poor or 33000 toilets in the city. The Parliamentary seat of PM Modi, Varanasi will be waiting for him for the launch of more new projects.
In August last year, the a vernacular newspaper reported from Varanasi, that none of the students of class I, II and III had school text books. The whole of July had gone by without anything being taught in schools and the students spent most of their time playing. Varanasi is just as an example; the situation across the country is equally disappointing.
According to the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009, every child in a primary school should have text books available on time i.e. at the beginning of the academic year. But the reality is far from what the Act stipulates. In fact, most children do not receive school books and even those who do, don’t necessarily get all the books and rarely at the beginning of the academic year.
Snazzy packaging, ironclad teacher contracts and study-on-the-go apps revive the city’s famed Rs 600 crore coaching industry in Mashya Pradesh.
Carrying a 420-page Mathematic textbook, Satvat Jagwani rushed to catch the Shipra Express, the start of a 15-hour journey from his home in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, to his coaching class (also known as ‘cram schools’) in Kota, Rajasthan. He had just finished school for the week and would now be spending the weekend taking mock exams. It was raining when he arrived at Bansal Classes in Kota, the pioneer of the coaching industry in the city. Having secured seats at different Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) for over 16,000 students so far, Bansal is highly coveted by aspirants.
