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.
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.
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.
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.
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