The “Taste of India” has widened its frontiers even further. Having revolutionised the milk sector in many parts of the country, the owner of brand Amul, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), on Wednesday started operations on the country’s biggest dairy plant in Dharuhera in Haryana.

This dairy is expected to cater to the daily needs for milk and milk products of not only Haryana residents but those of Delhi and NCR too which is the world’s second largest urban aggregation by population.

Alarmed by the rise in illegal drug trials in the country and the lack of effective laws for their monitoring, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is mulling guidelines for clinical trials. The NHRC has written to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and other premier medial institutes in the country to suggest the names of experts to assist the commission in framing the guidelines.

Recently, the unauthorised drug trials had caused great concern in the country after the Drug Controller-General of India (DCGI) revealed that 2061 persons died during drug trials between the period from January 2008 to January 2012.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is exploring the possibility of land reforms even as he has been slammed by activists for not having convened a single meeting of the National Council for Land Reforms (NCLR) headed by him since its formation in 2008. Dr Singh has directed the Planning Commission to set up a meeting with one of the key National Council for Land Reforms members P.V. Rajagopal, who has been on a countrywide tour to identify land issues in the rural India.

The Union food ministry has proposed some major changes to Sonia Gandhi’s pet project, the National Food Security Bill, the passage of which has been delayed for long due to differences between the

The Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee on the controversial Mullaperiyar dam on Tuesday refused to entertain Kerala’s plea to lower the reservoir’s water level from 136 feet to 120 feet.