Margin levels of our API to increase once we enter US biz: Amit Rajan, Bajaj HealthcareHowever, the pre-approved inspection has happened for one of the product where it will go to a big pharma para IV product and the supply wi...
15 Sep, 2023, 12.43 PM IST
Govt announces annual licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation for 2023-24Under the new policy, nearly 1.12 lakh farmers in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are anticipated to be given lic...
14 Sep, 2023, 07.18 PM IST
India’s great love for poppy seed and how it shaped public finance from the time of East India CompanyOpium trade was one reason why the East India Company came to India.
06 Feb, 2022, 04.19 PM IST
IIT Delhi alumnus Vinay Chhabra appointed CEO of Real Time Data ServicesVinay Chhabra has previously held prestigious positions in the government such as chief commissioner of the Central Excise and Customs, chi...
17 Feb, 2020, 07.20 PM IST
Turkish import seeds a poppy war in IndiaA group of poppy importers and India’s poppy farmers are alleging that a small number of importers have cornered the latest import order vi...
01 Nov, 2019, 10.59 PM IST
Opium trade sluggish as norms, infra beg for upgradeIndia is having to import opium byproduct codeine phosphate and is in danger of losing its leadership in the international legal narcotics ...
18 May, 2019, 08.34 AM IST
50 CCTVs installed at Asia's biggest Opium processing factory in MPFifty CCTVs have been installed at the state-run Opium and Alkaloid Works here - the biggest opium processing factory of Asia.
23 Aug, 2015, 01.22 PM IST
Union Budget 2012: Opium trade tucked away among the budget papersIn the budget documents there is always a figure which is never mentioned by the FM. This is the receipts from the opium and alkaloid facto...
18 Mar, 2012, 07.02 AM IST
Budget 2012: Look deeper into Finance Minister's big actThis year's budget was important to some like no other. ET on Sunday finds out what the budget had for each of the businesses.
18 Mar, 2012, 05.04 AM IST
- Finance ministry shortlists Sun Pharma, Alcaliber SA of Spain and Johnson Matthey of the UK to cultivate poppy
The finance ministry has shortlisted Sun Pharma, Alcaliber SA of Spain and Johnson Matthey of the UK to cultivate poppy on 5,000 acres and ...
12 Jul, 2011, 04.37 AM IST
- IFCI suggests corporate structure for opium factories
Financial institution IFCI has suggested a corporate like structure for state-owned opium factories to ease excessive govt control on manuf...
07 Sep, 2008, 03.14 PM IST
- Purchase tax on opium likely to fall
State governments have agreed to the Centre’s proposal to slash purchase tax on opium by at least 50 per cent, in a move aimed at making co...
01 Sep, 2008, 02.09 AM IST
- Opium production to go private
And now opium production too is set to go private with top players such as Ranbaxy, Cipla and Dr Reddy’s Labs vying for a piece of the pie.
05 Aug, 2007, 04.33 AM IST
- Pvt entry into opium may drive exports & cut costs
A clutch of pharmaceutical majors, including Ranbaxy, Dr Reddy’s, Cipla and Nicholas Piramal, has formed a queue before the finance ministr...
27 Mar, 2007, 02.34 AM IST
- Championing a different cure
The medicine man from hyderabad is now targeting a killer disease - poverty.
10 Feb, 2007, 04.55 AM IST
- Of substance of abuse and medicinal effect
Plant-based and synthetic substances broadly called drugs have many uses and effects, some of which make them useful as medicines
12 Jun, 2006, 12.47 AM IST