conscious nation as far as reading about the subject is

concerned with health magazines forming the chunk of foreign

journals or periodicals published from the country.

A large number of 154 facsimile editions of foreign

journals on health are published from the country out of the

total 373 since doors were opened for such publications in

2003, according to Government data.

The publications range from subjects on neurology to

cancer to cardiology and even ‘medical grapevine’ which talks

about the latest news from the world of medicine.

The journals also include those on homoeopathy and

psychiatry.

However, the trend seems to be declining over the

years with no health magazine among the 18 approved for

publication last year.

This year, till now, only three magazines, including

‘Fortune India’, have been given approval.

An yearly break-up shows that the maximum number of 72

approvals for foreign journals were given in 2006 and the

least number of five in 2003.

The government has in 2009 allowed a 100 per cent FDI

in the publication of facsimile editions of foreign

newspapers. Via the same notification, the Government notified

26 per cent of FDI in the Indian editions of foreign

newspapers and current affair magazines.

India had originally changed the law in 2003 allowing

foreign groups full ownership of non-news publications. PTI