FDI equity inflow into pharma sector grows to $1.27 billion in H1 FY26

New Delhi:  The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) equity inflow into the drugs and pharmaceuticals sector in the country has reported over two-fold growth during the first half of the fiscal…

Maha to manufacture goatpox vaccine at its Pune institute

PUNE:  The Maharashtra animal husbandry department will begin manufacturing goatpox vaccine at its Pune-based Institute of Veterinary Biological Products (IVBP), making it the first government-run institute in India to develop…

DoP includes member of HTAIn in expert committee on pricing of drugs

New Delhi: Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has added an expert representative from the Health Technology Assessment of India (HTAIn) under the Department of Health Research (DHR) as a member of…

Almost 85% of overcharged amount claimed by NPPA yet to be recovered

New Delhi: India’s drug price monitoring and enforcing authority, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), has almost 85 per cent of the amount it demanded from the pharma industry on…

India Launches SHRESTH Index to Strengthen State Drug Regulatory Systems

New Delhi: Union Health Secretary, Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava virtually launched the State Health Regulatory Excellence Index (SHRESTH), a first-of-its-kind national initiative to benchmark and strengthen state drug regulatory systems…

Gang making fake health supplements busted in Muzaffarnagar, two arrested

Muzaffarnagar: Khalapar police station has taken a major action and exposed a gang manufacturing fake health supplements in the name of international brands. Police have recovered goods worth about Rs…