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Topic: Drug

All about Biocon’s Itolizumab, psoriasis drug approved for emergency use in Covid patients

DGCI has given 'restricted emergency use' approval to the drug for treating Covid-19 patients with moderate-to-severe acute respiratory distress.

Swarms of bugs, missing data plague firms now making heart drug in India

Inspection reports by US federal agency FDA stated that workers destroyed records indicating that drugs were failing key quality measures.

High time India, the land of bhang, legalises marijuana

Regulation allows cannabis buyers to know what they’re consuming and moderate their intake, in the same way that a drinker can distinguish and choose between a whiskey and a beer.

Pfizer’s Viagra patent set to end in the US, Indian pharma firms sense huge opportunity

Seven get FDA approval to produce the drug, could send prices crashing in the US by nearly 99%.

On Camera

Shah Rukh Khan’s India is about love, not hate. Chak De! India to My Name Is Khan

This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.