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Sunday, July 20, 2025
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Topic: pharmaceutical

Cheers to health! This was a decade of drug breakthroughs – from Cancer to Hepatitis C

Multiple new categories of medicines have moved from dreams & lab benches into the market and people’s lives. Now they need to become affordable.

Indian-born pharma tycoon John Kapoor faces 15 years in jail for America’s opioid crisis

John Kapoor is accused of leading a racketeering conspiracy that helped fuel US opioid crisis with bribes to boost prescriptions of a highly addictive painkiller.

Hundreds of colleges came up amid India’s pharma boom. Here’s why govt wants no more

India has barred new pharma colleges until 2021-22 to check poor-quality institutes looking to tap the industry’s growing popularity.

New book warns Americans against ‘flea-market quality’ Indian generic drugs

Bottle of Lies by journalist Katherine Eban accuses Indian pharma firms of fudging data on quality control and toxic impurities, among other major lapses.

India’s copycat drugs could do serious harm to patient health, says US pharma lobby

American pharma lobby slams India for not turning into reality the positive signs shown by the government about providing better market access.

Heart drug Valsartan is safe for consumption in India, says drug regulator

The Indian regulator said the contaminated batches did not enter the domestic market.

US pharma giant asks Indian stores to cut margins, says govt price cap choking operations

Abbot wants margins cut on 14 key drugs. But the association of pharmacists has refused to compromise on profits. New Delhi: US pharma giant Abbott...

To counter China, Made-in-India drugs could soon be made in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is offering Indian firms incentives including free land, tax holidays of up to 10 years faster green clearances among others.

On Camera

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.