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Exits force Wockhardt to rejig top team
Rediff.com2 Oct 2010

Beleaguered drugmaker Wockhardt has a new management team in place to implement a...

ADAG picks up 15% in new Kerala airport
Rediff.com9 Sep 2010

The Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has picked up a 15 per cent stake for Rs 225...

Brand booster for pharma
Rediff.com23 Aug 2010

Major Indian drug companies such as Ranbaxy Laboratories, Lupin, Dr Reddy's...

Pharma research outsourcing faces speed bumps
Rediff.com29 Jun 2010

Major drug discovery outsourcing deals have almost dried up in the past 18 months for...

Drug firms on outsourcing high
Rediff.com7 Jun 2010

An increase in the number of outsourcing deals between domestic drug companies and...

Indian pharma firms hit the Chinese Wall
Rediff.com13 Apr 2010

Indian pharmaceutical companies may have spread their wings far and wide, but they have...

3 Indian firms in race to take over Male airport
Rediff.com5 Apr 2010

Three Indian companies are among the six shortlised to bid for the privatisation of the...

India cracks human genome, joins elite club
Rediff.com22 Dec 2009

Last week, scientists working with the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology...

Areva T&D acquisition may trigger open offer
Rediff.com2 Dec 2009

The share prices of power transmission and distribution company Areva T&D rose 2.8 per...

Suzlon in talks to sell gearbox unit, Hansen
Rediff.com31 Aug 2009

European wind turbine makers interested; deal could be $1 billion. The company aims to...

Big pharma cos join outsourcing queue
Rediff.com17 Aug 2009

India emerging as a big global destination for contract manufacturing, unlike R&D...

Allow retail of Tamiflu: Domestic pharma cos
Rediff.com14 Aug 2009

The central government's decision to continue controlling supply of the swine flu drug,...

India Inc finds stem cells a healthy business
Rediff.com14 Jul 2009

Bangalore-based Stempeutics Research received clearance from the Drug Controller...

Patents: Nestle,Takeda sue Lupin, Torrent
Rediff.com9 Jul 2009

In another development, leading Japanese drug maker Takeda Pharmaceutical sued...

Novartis loses battle for cancer drug patent
Rediff.com5 Jul 2009

Novartis's famed cancer drug, Glivec, will not get patent protection in India. The apex...

RCom, Alcatel-Lucent close to Rs 3,000-crore deal
Rediff.com9 Jun 2009

In what could be one of the largest outsourcing deals in the Indian telecom space,...

Wind blows against Suzlon back home
Rediff.com5 Jun 2009

The world's fifth largest wind turbine maker, Suzlon Energy, which has been grappling...

Novartis may revise open offer price
Rediff.com28 May 2009

The company is likely to increase buy-back offer from Rs 351 to Rs 425-450. The open...

Upbeat Glaxo Pharma plans new launches, buys
Rediff.com29 Apr 2009

GSK India, which has a turnover of Rs 1,751 crore (Rs 17.51 billion) and launched a...

Reliance arm to reap big gains from biodiesel
Rediff.com27 Mar 2009

Mukesh Ambani's privately held biotech research company, Reliance Life Sciences, will...