Chinese medicines bring relief to India’s cancer patientsIndia’s cancer treatment landscape is seeing a shift as lower-cost immunotherapy drugs developed in China and marketed through Indian partn...
10 May, 2026, 08.50 AM IST
Why Your Banana Peel Jar Isn’t Feeding Tomatoes the Way You ThinkWhile banana peels are rich in nutrients, simply soaking them in water for plant fertilizer is largely ineffective. Research indicates that...
02 May, 2026, 04.55 PM IST
India needs to reduce the strategic importance of fertilisers through a bold agricultural policyGlobal events like the West Asia conflict and El Nino threaten governments. Rising fertilizer prices create a fiscal and political crisis f...
27 Apr, 2026, 11.46 PM IST
In major development in pharma, halt order enforced on production and sale of 35 fixed-dose combination drugsIndia's drug regulator, CDSCO, has ordered a halt to the production, sale, and distribution of 35 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs due to...
16 Apr, 2025, 01.22 PM IST
Central drug regulator cracks down on FDCsIn 2012, a parliamentary standing committee of the health ministry had observed in its report that some of the state licensing authorities ...
13 Jan, 2024, 12.27 AM IST
19 fixed-dose combinations drugs under radarThese cocktail drugs were licensed for manufacture and marketed by the state licensing authority. The 19 FDCs are commonly used for conditi...
02 Sep, 2022, 12.58 AM IST
Mankind Pharma eyes $1 billion topline by 2021The company is also looking at increasing its exports substantially to USD 100-150 USD million in the next three years from the present USD...
30 Sep, 2018, 03.20 PM IST
Government prohibits 328 fixed dose combinationsThe ban is effective immediately and may shave off over Rs 1,500 crore from India’s Rs 1.18 lakh crore pharmaceutical industry
13 Sep, 2018, 10.32 AM IST
SC for relook into 349 FDC medicines by drug advisory boardThe FDC were banned by the Centre on the grounds that they involved "risk" to humans and safer alternatives were available.
16 Dec, 2017, 05.57 PM IST
Hetero launches FDC combination of key HIV drugsThe FDC drug ‘Darunavir+Ritonavir’ is an anti-retroviral medication indicated for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) in ...
14 Nov, 2017, 05.34 PM IST
Companies challenge ban on fixed-dose combination drugsA Central government notification banning 344 such fixed-dose combinations in 2016 was set aside by the Delhi High Court in December.
26 Oct, 2017, 12.42 AM IST
Govt challenges revocation of FDC drug ban in Supreme CourtThe petition comes almost two months after the Delhi HC on December 2 set aside the govt notification that had banned hundreds of fixed dos...
31 Jan, 2017, 01.23 AM IST
Government may move Supreme Court to club all FDC drugs ban casesNadda admitted that situation was a result of lack of coordination between various state licencing authorities and Drugs Controller General...
29 Apr, 2016, 03.52 PM IST
NPPA backs ban on 'irrational' drugs, revises price fixation guidelinesIndia's drug pricing watchdog National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has moved in to back the health ministry.
23 Mar, 2016, 12.24 PM IST
Kerala HC gives chemists 2 more weeks to return 344 banned drugsThe Kerala HC has granted the state chemist and druggist association an extension to return the brands banned by a recent government order ...
19 Mar, 2016, 03.23 AM IST
Make names of banned drugs public: Congress MP to GovernmentCiting reports that household names like Corex and Vicks Action 500 have been banned, Shukla said people should know the names of all such ...
16 Mar, 2016, 03.33 PM IST
- 23 new fixed dose combinations got license without DCG nod
23 new fixed dose combinations have been granted licences by state authorities without mandatory approval of the Drug Controller General of...
15 Mar, 2013, 06.38 PM IST