India takes tiny steps back from its China dependencyIndia is striving to reduce its dependency on China for pharmaceutical raw materials by promoting domestic production through a Production-...
06 Sep, 2024, 02.41 PM IST
Israel-Hamas war may singe billion-dollar pharma exports“India’s exports amount to a billion dollars per year in these countries,” one of the experts said, asking not to be named. He said a protr...
11 Oct, 2023, 12.44 AM IST
Must maintain green energy supply chain in India, says Minister Piyush GoyalAddressing a CII event on renewable energy, he also said that efforts should be made to maintain the entire supply chain of this sector in ...
18 Oct, 2022, 12.13 AM IST
Pharma industry must focus on generic, better link between input and output: Piyush GoyalIn this situation, the minister said, "it's extremely important that we focus not only on our strengths in the generic sector but also ensu...
15 Apr, 2022, 06.09 PM IST
First up: Jefferies puts buy rating on Gland, Laurus LabsJefferies has initiated coverage on Gland Pharma and Laurus Labs with buy ratings as it believes that Indian contract development and manuf...
06 Jan, 2022, 06.17 AM IST
PLI Scheme should lead India towards innovation: Amitabh KantSpeaking at a virtual interactive session at BioAsia 2021, Kant said some studies have indicated that the earlier scheme of 200 per cent ta...
23 Feb, 2021, 07.35 PM IST
Telangana opposes move to allocate pharma parks project based on costsThe Union government, which proposes to allocate Rs 1,000 crore for each of the three bulk drug parks that will be chosen based on competit...
05 Oct, 2020, 07.11 AM IST
Government plans Rs 15,000-crore PLI scheme to boost local drug productionThe scheme intends to promote indigenous manufacture of complex generics, biosimilars and high value-add medicines, to boost domestic drug ...
26 Sep, 2020, 07.23 AM IST
House panel meets to discuss API, KSM self-sufficiency, reducing dependence on ChinaThe 27-member parliamentary panel held a meeting this week with the industry and sought their suggestions. The government is committed to g...
11 Sep, 2020, 07.47 AM IST
Govt needs to understand the difference between self-sufficiency and self-reliance: Swaminathan Aiyar‘If you create proper conditions, sectoral winners will come up on their own’
30 Jun, 2020, 05.10 PM IST
So will Modi use Covid for major economic reforms?The prime minister needs to seize on the Covid-19 crisis to make sensible, overdue reforms.
14 May, 2020, 08.03 AM IST
No shortage of key medicines, masks: MoS Mansukh MandaviyaCountering arguments that there is dearth of masks in the country, the minister said India has 114 mask production units that together have...
25 Mar, 2020, 11.21 PM IST
Department of Pharma proposes Rs 10,000-crore incentive scheme for promoting domestic API unitsThe proposal is likely to be put before the union cabinet tomorrow, people in the know told ET. Under the proposal, the government will pro...
20 Mar, 2020, 02.03 PM IST
View: Govt should reduce over dependence on Chinese imports of pharma raw materialsIndustry is expecting an impetus to pharma sector keeping in line with the government’s mantra of introducing big bang reforms.
19 Jan, 2017, 08.27 PM IST
Gujarat may get India's first medical device parkIndia is exporting medicines to approx. 200 countries, but the country is still dependent on other countries for medical devices, Ananth Ku...
16 Dec, 2015, 05.00 PM IST
India heavily dependent on drug imports from China: StudyIndia has become heavily import dependent on China when it comes to many essential & large volume drugs making it vulnerable to sudden disr...
04 Jul, 2014, 09.00 PM IST
Revive pharmaceutical PSUs for large-scale production of generic medicines: Parliamentary panelA parliamentary board has suggested revival of pharma PSUs like HAL and IDPL for large scale production of generic medicines.
16 Aug, 2013, 03.37 PM IST