Pharmaceuticals
CCI approves GSK-Pfizer consumer healthcare JV
24 May 2019
And now, formaldehyde found in J&J’s baby shampoo
01 Apr 2019
Johnson & Johnson is facing regulatory scrutiny over most of its products, including its baby care products, over health concerns
NITI Aayog delegated NPPA role of drug price regulation
24 Jan 2019
A NITI Aayog-led body will now recommend prices to the NPPA on drugs and other health products, which relegates NPPA to a mere implementing body
Pfizer to shutter two more plants in India
09 Jan 2019
Eli Lilly to acquire Loxo Oncology for $8 bn in cash
09 Jan 2019
Loxo’s oncology drug Vitrakvi, priced at $32,800 per month, and experimental follow-up drug LOXO-195, on which Bayer is also a partner, together could generate annual sales of about $750 million
Bristol-Myers to acquire Celgene in $74-bn cash-and-stock deal
03 Jan 2019
Celgene shareholders will receive one Bristol-Myers Squibb share and $50 in cash for each share held, or $102.43 per share, a premium of 53.7 per cent to Celgene’s Wednesday close, besides one tradable contingent value right for each share held
J&J told to stop using its baby powder raw material in India
21 Dec 2018
Reports quoting an unnamed senior CDSCO official said on Thursday that Johnson & Johnson has been served with a written order to stop using the "huge quantities" of raw materials stocked in its plants in India
Aurobindo to buy Sandoz’s dermatology business in US for $1 bn
07 Sep 2018
Aurobindo will pay $900 million for about 300 products, three manufacturing facilities in the US and Eon Labs Inc, a wholly owned unit of Sandoz Inc, besides performance-based payments of $100 million on products in the pipeline
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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