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World Service,14 Oct 2015,26 mins
India Pharmacies Close to Protest Online Drug Sales
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
800,000 pharmacies shut for a day claiming online drug sales are unregulated and dangerous. We talk to Prashant Tandon, co-founder of internet pharmacy 1mg.com. The Japanese carmaker Nissan has sealed a deal to sponsor international cricket. We find out more from Tim Wigmore of cricket website CricInfo. Also in the programme, as the countdown continues to the UN climate change talks in Paris, what are the chances of a good deal for the planet? We host a discussion between Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation and Jeremy Leggett, founder of solar energy company Solarcentury. Plus, robots with feelings - the BBC's Hugh Pym reports on how artificial intelligence could transform how we care for the elderly. (Picture: A shuttered pharmacy in Mumbai, India. Picture credit: Vishnu Vardhan.)
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