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New Delhi: India will provide assistance to Singapore naval practice and logistics facilities, which will include live firing drills in the Andamans, to add to the ones already being provided to the army and air force of the city-state for the last 10 years.

Visiting Singapore defence minister Ng Eng Hen, who reached New Delhi from Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal, will hold delegation-level talks with his Indian counterpart NirmalaSitharaman in South Block today.

The bilateral naval agreement is also slated to be inked during the talks. With land and airspace being a scarce commodity in Singapore, the city state has been utilising Indian military facilities to train its own small but high-tech armed forces under special agreements first signed in 2007 and 2008.

New Delhi: At least 10.5% of medicines sold in low- and middle-income countries could be substandard or falsified, according to two WHOreports.

The size of the dubious drugs market in these countries is at about $30 billion. However, experts slammed the basis for these estimates and said they were grossly exaggerated.

One report was on the cases reported to the WHO's surveillance system for dubious drugs. Two WHO reports released on Tuesday estimated that roughly 10.5% of medicines being sold in Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) could be substandard or falsified.
Hence, they concluded, the size of the dubious drugs market in these countries at about $30 billion. However experts slammed the basis for these estimates and said they were grossly exaggerated.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to bring a law to fix liability on people who could be prosecuted and made to pay compensation for indulging in and abetting mob violence.

A bench of Justices A K Goel and U ULalit said a mechanism must be set up to decide such cases and suggested that district courts could be entrusted with the task of prosecuting people and fixing compensation to be paid by them for loss of lives and public property. 

"There is a need for a law to provide remedy and a forum to hear such cases. Loss of life and property cannot be allowed," it said.