In a swift enforcement action against the unauthorized distribution of habit-forming medications, officials from the Drug Control Wing under the Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE) conducted a surprise raid at a medical shop in Tellapur village in Ramchandrapuram mandal in Sangareddy district. The raid led to the detection of illegal stocking and indiscriminate sale of habit-forming prescription drugs, highlighting the state regulator’s zero-tolerance stance on drug diversion. The targeted operation was carried out at Sri Ganesh Medical and General Stores following specific and credible intelligence received by the enforcement authorities. Upon searching the premises, regulatory...

According to the FDA commissioner, the aim of the FDA is not merely to take regulatory action, but to ensure the safety and quality of medicines and statutory compliance throughout the drug supply chain. The Food and Drug Administration, Pune cancelled the wholesale drug sale license of Cipla Pharma and Life Sciences Ltd, Wadki in Pune. Tukaram Mundhe, Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration, Maharashtra, said after completing the legal and regulatory procedures, the action was taken. “There were serious irregularities identified during the inspection of the establishment, including issues relating to the packaging and promotion of Reactin Plus Tablets,...

Five workers were reportedly killed in the explosion, while more than 10 others sustained severe injuries. At least five workers were killed, and another 10 people suffered serious injuries after a boiler exploded at a private pharmaceutical manufacturing unit in the special economic zone of Sri City in Satyavedu mandal of Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati district in the wee hours of Saturday, officials familiar with the development said. The accident occurred at the Till Healthcare pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, which produces tablets. According to preliminary reports, the boiler suddenly exploded while workers were on the night shift, triggering a massive fire inside...

The CDSCO notice flagged that certain such products contained heavy metals beyond permissible limits, potentially posing health risks to consumers, said the Police Cosmetic products manufactured in Pakistan and allegedly imported into India without the required authorisation, worth about ₹7 lakh, were seized during searches at shops in Hyderabad, Telangana. The Commissioner’s Task Force, Rajendranagar Zone, along with officials of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), inspected Beauty Ladies Emporium, Beauty Queen Shop and S.J. Medical Shop in Habeeb Nagar and Nampally on Wednesday (September 30, 2026). The CDSCO officials identified the products as unauthorised or banned cosmetics mentioned...

New Delhi: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has suspended the food business licence of Delhi’s Seven Seas Hospitality, based in Rohini, over non-compliance with norms and violations, including the presence of fungus, cockroaches, and house flies in the kitchen. In a social media post on Wednesday, FSSAI informed that it found “serious non-compliances” during the inspection of the food premises. The company achieved a “compliance score of only 30%”, the regulator mentioned in its post. The FSSAI described the kitchen condition as filthy and that food inspectors observed poor hygiene and sanitation conditions, including water stagnation,...

Best in Class Surgical Robot SSiMantra is his Weapon of Surefire Succes Patna: The knight in the shining armor is top notch robotic surgeon London returned Dr Bipin Jha. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) fame colorectal surgeon Dr Jha is being hailed as ‘Samrat’ of robotic surgery in Bihar. After 12-year stint with iconic NHS, he has left London to make his state a go- to place for best surgery. His weapon of surefire success is SSiMantra, the best-in-class surgical robot, most accessible and affordable. With inauguration of Robotic Surgery Department in Savera Cancer and Multispecialty Hospital by Deputy...

Latest Advancements, AI, increasingly Brightening prospect of Medical Tourism dominated Deliberations New Delhi: For the highly successful Pushpanjali Medicon, the world seemed to be its oyster. Faculties from abroad including that from USA coming on their own expense and the organizer being spoilt for invitees from home with fear that uninvited might feel hurt speak volumes about the kind of relevance Pushpanjali Medicon has now acquired. Flush with ever brightening prospect of windfall of medical tourism in India, this meeting of medical minds on September 27 put itself firmly on the map of global healthcare landscape. Over 3000 doctors, 100...

Meerut: A four-year-old boy’s condition allegedly worsened after he was administered an anti-rabies injection at Sambhal district hospital following a snakebite. A pharmacist at the hospital has been removed from his duties pending an inquiry, officials said on Friday. The boy, identified by his first name, Adeeb, a resident of Sambhal, was bitten by a snake on Monday while playing in the courtyard of his house. He had put his hand into a hole in a wall to retrieve a marble when the snake struck him, his family said. The boy was taken to the district hospital, where staff allegedly...

The court left the food regulator free to pass a fresh order after issuing a show-cause notice to the company and giving it a hearing.New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has quashed an order of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) that had directed Red Bull India to stop using the word "energy" for its drinks, finding that the company had been denied natural justice, according to ETHealthworld.Justice Amit Mahajan allowed Red Bull India's petition on that limited ground. The company had argued that the regulator issued its order without first serving a show-cause notice or giving...

Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini also set a 1 November deadline for opening Amrit Pharmacies in every government hospital in the state.Chandigarh: Government hospitals in Haryana will be allowed to spend the money they receive for treating patients under the Ayushman Bharat and Chirayu schemes on special incentives for doctors and staff, upgradation, sanitation work and Ayushman Mitras, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini announced on Tuesday. The state government has approved a proposal submitted by the Health Department to this effect, according to The Tribune.Saini made the announcement while chairing a review meeting with Health Department officials at the Haryana...

Generic medicines and their ingredients remain outside the Section 232 pharmaceutical tariffs, according to the US Commerce Department notice.New Delhi: India is among 20 jurisdictions whose qualifying speciality medicines will enter the United States at zero duty, even as a 100 per cent tariff on specified patented pharmaceutical products was extended to more companies from 29 September, according to a notice from the US Department of Commerce.The department's Bureau of Industry and Security listed the eligible jurisdictions in a notice published in the Federal Register on 23 September. The zero rate applies to rare-disease drugs whose approved uses all carry...

An AIIMS New Delhi doctor sat on the 23-member expert group, and eligible Indians can seek screening through the Indian Lung Screening Trial he leads. New Delhi: Screening with low-dose computed tomography can reduce the risk of dying from lung cancer by 16 per cent among high-risk people and also lower the number of cases found at stage III or IV, a working group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has concluded in an assessment published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The IARC panel of 23 clinicians and scientists from 17 countries, including Dr Abhishek...

The company said the assets are freehold and unencumbered, so the sale will not touch the security package given to its lenders. Mumbai: Krsnaa Diagnostics said its board has approved the sale of identified diagnostic equipment to identified purchasers for an aggregate consideration of up to Rs 120 crore, as the diagnostics provider moves towards a lighter asset base. According to the company, the proposed sale is part of an ongoing strategic exercise aimed at optimising its asset portfolio and improving capital efficiency. Krsnaa said it had built up a substantial base of assets over the years to support the...

The chain will pay a further Rs 31.5 crore if SN Genelab meets agreed performance targets, on top of Rs 168 crore for a 70 per cent stake. New Delhi: Dr Lal PathLabs' purchase of a majority stake in SN Genelab adds a specialised genomics laboratory to its business, but the target is too small to lift the diagnostic chain's earnings in the short run, according to an analysis published by Mint. SN Genelab reported revenue of Rs 58 crore in FY26, roughly 2 per cent of what Dr Lal PathLabs earned last year, the report said. It cited Nomura...

Of the candidates considered in the first round, 14,736 were allotted their first-choice college and must accept the seat, the state CET Cell said.Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test Cell has published the first Centralized Admission Process (CAP) list for first-year B.Pharmacy and Pharm.D courses for 2026-27, offering admission to 28,139 students across 528 pharmacy colleges in the state, according to The Times of India.The participating colleges together have 46,984 seats on offer, the CET Cell said. Of the 44,329 candidates who registered for admission, 35,988 filed their college preferences within the stipulated window and were considered in the...

Pending applications to raise intake in existing postgraduate courses or to start new ones are not part of the list and will be added only once approved, the commission said.New Delhi: The Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) on Tuesday published the postgraduate (PG) medical seat matrix for the 2026-27 academic year, setting out the approved annual intake that will go into NEET PG 2026 counselling, according to The Indian Express.The matrix names each medical college and institution, the PG courses it runs and the intake capacity cleared by MARB, the commission said in...

A final decision on switching the medical entrance test to computers will follow only after the Nandan Nilekani-led task force on examination reforms submits its recommendations, officials said.New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Education is drawing up a national strategy for computer-based testing (CBT) infrastructure that could allow the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for undergraduate medical admissions (NEET-UG) to move away from pen and paper, officials told The Indian Express.The plan seeks to create examination-grade capacity for large national entrance tests by adding test centres, setting common infrastructure specifications and allowing more offline exams to shift to computers, according to the...

The mining company has put Rs 1 crore into the new subsidiary, which will make, assemble and distribute medical devices, surgical and diagnostic products and healthcare consumables.Bengaluru: Sandur Manganese & Iron Ores, the flagship company of the Karnataka-based Sandur Group, has incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary named Royal Sandur MedTech to take up the manufacture of medical devices and healthcare consumables, according to Business Standard.The certificate of incorporation for the new entity, a private limited company registered in India, was issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on 25 September 2026, and the parent informed the stock exchanges of the...

The company is looking for a site of about 10,000 square metres and has opened talks with Invest UP, according to a company executive.Greater Noida: DNA Technology, a Russian maker of molecular diagnostic equipment and reagents, is in advanced talks to set up a manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh that would be its first production facility outside Russia, a company representative told Moneycontrol.Sergey Labutin, head of the company's international sales department, said on the sidelines of the Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show that the firm is searching for a site of around 10,000 square metres. That is roughly half the...

Imported first-aid kits meant only for workplace use in sectors such as automobiles and hospitality could skip import licensing if they carry at least 60% residual shelf life.New Delhi: The Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) has recommended relaxing sale and import licence requirements for a set of medical devices commonly used at home, including pulse oximeters, blood pressure monitors, thermometers, glucometers and urine pregnancy test kits, according to a report in Outlook India.The recommendations were made at the board's 94th meeting and cover products that consumers generally use directly or that serve limited, non-commercial purposes, the report said. Small quantities...