Stratagene to appeal verdict won by Third Wave
Stratagene on Saturday announced its move in response to the decision rendered last Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The jury awarded Third Wave</a...President’s verdict: no need to panic over bird fl
In a considerate and consolatory statement President Jacques Chirac of France has asked people to feel safe and insists that eating poultry is safe and panic unjustified.// This came after European Union's first outbreak of the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu in commercial poultry was confirmed in France. The Agriculture Ministry has confirmed after lab tests that H5N1 in tur...Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos
The Supreme Court today has issued a notice to the Centre asking it to explain the basis on which a policy decision to implement 27 per cent reservation was taken//. With the deadlock on the quota issue continuing, the Supreme Court today decided to examine the government's controversial move to provide 27 per cent reservation to socially and economically backward classes in higher edu...Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos
The Supreme Court today has issued a notice to the Centre asking it to explain the basis on which a policy decision to implement 27 per cent reservation was taken//. With the deadlock on the quota issue continuing, the Supreme Court today decided to examine the government's controversial move to provide 27 per cent reservation to socially and economically backward classes in higher edu...Venugopal will not be Sacked Before Court Verdict: Central Government
The central government Thursday assured the Delhi High Court that it would not sack All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director P. Venugopal from the post// till the court decided on his petition. Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam gave this assurance to the court when counsel for Venugopal, Arun Jaitley, asked for a provision from the court on the government f...Verdict Against Wyeth Pharma in Prempro Case
Wyeth Pharma has been asked to pay $3 million to a husband and wife couple by a Philadelphia jury in connection with its hormone// replacement drug prempro. Jennie Nelson of Ohio had filed a case against the pharma giant accusing their drug prempro to have caused breast cancer in her. Prempro is intended as a hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women. Nelson has been taking this d...