Ranitidine still sold as popular heartburn medicine in India despite being banned or suspended in US, Europe & Australia. It was dropped from essential medicines list last year.
Health minister concedes implementation of Schedule M of Drugs and Cosmetics Act has been poor. Timeline for adherence to norms for good manufacturing practices began on 1 August.
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has carried out nationwide inspections following a spate of incidents where drugs imported from India were found to be substandard or spurious.
Assam Rifles and the Mizoram customs department seized 39,04,000 triprolidine and pseudoephedrine tablets which act as precursors in manufacturing of addictive crystal methamphetamine.
Cipla, Dr Reddy’s Lab, Mondelez & Unilever lauded for transition to fourth industrial revolution using advanced technologies despite global challenges like Ukraine war & Covid.
Hyderabad-based pharma company, Hetero, announced promising interim results of phase 3 trials and has approached DCGI for emergency use authorisation for the drug in India.
The issue received attention after Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of India requested US President to lift the embargo of raw material exports to ramp up vaccination.
The company and existing holders including Fosun Pharma Industrial Pte. are selling as many as 43.2 million shares for anywhere between Rs 1,490-1,500 each.
Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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