
New Delhi: India and Brazil have agreed to set up six working groups in sectors like agro-processing, mining, infrastructure and pharmaceuticals aimed at increasing collaboration in these areas and strengthen economic ties. "Our governments have agreed to set up six working groups on agro processing, services and IT, mining, infrastructure, engineering and pharmaceuticals," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said. He was speaking at the Brazil-India Business Session jointly organised...

04:51 AM, Mar 31, 2012

Mumbai: Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding plans to offer cut-price versions of two blockbuster cancer drugs for the Indian market soon, a company spokesman said on Friday, days after the government moved to slash the price of another cancer treatment. India stripped German group Bayer of exclusive rights to Nexavar earlier this month and licenced a local company to produce a cheap, generic version, on the grounds that poor Indians could...

02:39 AM, Mar 24, 2012

Mumbai: Two Anil Ambani group firms, Reliance Communications and Reliance Infrastructure, will move out of Bombay Stock Exchange's blue chip index Sensex in August. While RCom would be replaced by Sun Pharmaceuticals, RInfra would be substituted by Coal India on the 30-share index. The changes would be effective from August 8, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) said in a statement on Friday. Coal India shares have been doing well since the...

10:05 PM, Jun 17, 2011

Boston: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday that US regulators placed the company's experimental pain drug for osteoarthritis on clinical hold after a patient in another company's trial developed a serious bone disorder. Regeneron said it and its partner, Sanofi-Aventis SA, were informed late last week by the US Food and Drug Administration that the drug, REGN475/SAR164877, was being placed on clinical hold after a patient in another company's trial...

09:53 AM, Dec 28, 2010

Cervical cancer claims 74,000 lives every year in India. Now a new vaccine claims to prevent the disease. ...

02:29 PM, Apr 16, 2010

The deal is believed to be more that Rs 5 crore annually. ...

03:48 PM, Jan 07, 2010

Pharma major's owner Desh Bandhu Gupta poised for big things. ...

05:01 PM, Dec 02, 2009

Cadila will file an application for clinical trials of the vaccine in the next two days. ...

09:35 AM, Aug 17, 2009

33 drugs seized from facility; company's shares fall in BSE. ...

02:38 PM, Jun 26, 2009

Company says it will respond to American regulator's letter. ...

11:32 AM, Feb 26, 2009

India is emerging as an R&D base, challenging the West pharma giants. ...

12:38 PM, Jun 12, 2008

Poor Upul Tharanga still can't buy runs in Australia. The woefully out of form Sri Lankan opener came into this match with scores of 4 and 5 in the series so far, both times edging to slip, and if he thought Valentine's Day would offer some room for optimism, it sorely did not. Second ball of the match, a leaden-footed Tharanga was prized out by Vinay Kumar who was well...

09:35 PM, Apr 23, 2008