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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicAntibiotic resistance

Topic: Antibiotic resistance

How livestock farming is worsening antimicrobial resistance

When it comes to antimicrobial resistance, human, animal, and environmental health are interconnected.

Inside one of the labs fighting India’s biggest healthcare threats—antimicrobial resistance

The latest AMR 2.0 National Action plan was released on 18 November. During its release, JP Nadda called antimicrobial resistance a ‘pandemic’.

English researchers chance upon ‘highly potent’ antibiotic. It may help tackle antimicrobial resistance

The new antibiotic, hiding in plain sight so far, can kill seven different types of bacteria, including those causing skin, blood, urinary infections.

Antibiotics launched in India will soon need CDSCO nod as drug resistance emerges as silent killer

In 2019, bacterial antimicrobial resistance killed between 3 lakh and 10.4 lakh people in India, according to a Lancet report.

1st US FDA-approved drug invented in India set for local launch as part of combination antibiotic

Combination of enmetazobactam, invented by scientists associated with Chennai-based pharma firm Orchid Pharma in 2008, and antibiotic cefipime is used to treat severe bacterial infection.

Superbugs behind fatal blood infections in India rapidly growing resistant to last-resort antibiotics

Findings published in Lancet based on ICMR data collected from 14 states. Study to help monitor anti-microbial resistance & tailor region-specific treatment plans, researchers say.

Antimicrobial resistance can kill 10 million by 2050. Ending it will be an era-defining triumph

Disease prevention is by far the most effective strategy for reducing the need for antibiotics in people and animals.

Antimicrobial resistance can kill 10 million by 2050. Ending it will be an era-defining triumph

Disease prevention is by far the most effective strategy for reducing the need for antibiotics in people and animals.

Ceftriaxone, among India’s most prescribed antibiotics, ‘increasingly resistant’ against pathogens

Monocef, a popular brand of the drug, has been among top-selling medicines these last few months. Ceftriaxone is ‘watch’ antibiotic, with high potential for antimicrobial resistance. 

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.