While GST on Tocilizumab and Amphotericin B is slashed to nil from 5 per cent, the rate on Remdesivir and Heparin is lowered from 12 per cent to 5 per cent.
Drug firm Roche India, which supplies tocilizumab in India, had told the court it can only endeavour to supply the Covid drug but can't assure to meet the market demand.
States like Delhi, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Kerala and Chhattisgarh have complained of acute shortage of tocilizumab. The drug is used to treat Covid and rheumatoid arthritis.
On 19 November 1962, PM Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the people of Assam in a radio address and spoke of the resolve against Chinese attack, saying India won't tolerate this invasion.
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