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NEW DELHI: The Dadachanji Group, which is focused on pharma manufacturing and allied technologies, has forayed into building fully customised machines, medical devices, and automation solutions in pharma, healthcare, and other sectors through KAIRISH Innotech. The company will offer end-to-end capabilities across customised pharma machinery, medical device design and manufacturing, tooling and precision components, robotics…
NEW DELHI: As India pushes ahead with bilateral trade agreements, the issue of importing refurbished medical equipment has emerged as a contentious flashpoint in the medical devices sector. Domestic players have warned against easing restrictions, flagging patient safety risks and concerns over unfair competition, while MNCs are advocating a globally-aligned framework to allow wider access…
NEW DELHI: A steep cut in NEET-PG qualifying standards has led to postgraduate medical seats in govt colleges being filled at shockingly low scores – including in high-risk clinical specialties – triggering alarm across the medical fraternity, reports Anuja Jaiswal. The impact was stark in third-round PG counselling, where candidates secured seats in govt medical…
Removal Of Basic Customs Duty Of 5-11% To Lower Prices Of 17 Expensive Treatments Prices of 17 expensive cancer medicines, including Ribociclib and Venetoclax, and of seven rare disease drugs, like primary hyperoxaluria and cystinosis, are expected to dip after removal of basic customs duty in the Budget. This would lead to lowering of landed…
AGARTALA: The unprecedented flight disruptions across India have extended a family’s wait to give the final farewell to their young son, prolonging their agony. The body of 23-year-old Saptarshi Das from Ramnagar in Agartala has been holed up at a mortuary in Delhi for past three days.Saptarshi, a medical intern at a private hospital in…
Almost 140 candidates from the economically weaker section (annual family income less than Rs 8 lakh) have chosen postgraduate seats in clinical specialties from management and NRI quotas of private medical colleges, for which tuition fees alone range from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 1 crore plus per year. This has raised questions about the…
The building in Dhauj, Fbd, from where the explosives were found GURGAON/SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri medical professor’s arrest has triggered one of the largest counterterrorism hauls in recent years, with investigators in J&K, Haryana and UP uncovering nearly 2,900kg of IED-making material, multiple assault rifles, pistols, chemicals, electronics and flammable substances. Police said a transnational module…
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: India’s generic companies are likely to continue in business-as-usual mode as US President Donald Trump’s 100% levy on pharmaceuticals is targeted at branded and patented medicines, but it may also prompt some of them to rethink their playbook.Industry experts told TOI that the country’s largest drugmaker Sun Pharma could face headwinds as its…
