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Union Budget 2026 takes major steps to overcome shortcomings in Pharma sec
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Speaking on the Union Budget 2026-27, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Rajiv Bahl noted that the government has initiated a significant push to transform the country's pharmaceutical landscape by addressing regulatory gaps and enhancing research infrastructure. S
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India has potential to be a leader in bio-medicine: ICMR DG Rajiv Bahl hai
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Apart from the increased allocation, the central drug regulator has been strenghtened, a plan for building over 1,000 medical trial sites has been announced, and cancer medicines have been exempted from custom duties.
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Union Minister Anupriya Patel inaugurates National Virus Research & Diagno
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to the release, the two-day event in Delhi saw the presence of Dr Rajiv Bahl, Secretary of the Department of Health Research (DHR) and DG, ICMR, and Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi, Drug Controller General of India.
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Indian Council of Medical Research organises SHINE, a nationwide student o
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for students to "spend one day as a scientist", the Department of Health Research (DHR) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) organized a nationwide open day titled S.H.I.N.E. - Science, Health and Innovation for Nextgen Explorers
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Circulating variants have mild symptoms, closely monitoring the situation:
Updated : 10 months ago IST
ICMR Director General Dr. Rajiv Bahl stated that COVID-19 infections are currently mild with low active cases, primarily in southern and western India. Surveillance and preparedness measures are underway, and the government remains vigilant.
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ICMR launches "Medical Innovations Patent Mitra" to support biomedical inn
Updated : 1 year ago IST
This program, developed under the guidance of NITI Aayog and in partnership with the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP), is supported by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
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Guillain-Barré Syndrome cases in Pune under investigation: DG ICMR
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
As Maharashtra registers over 100 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), the Director General Indian Council of Medical Research Dr Rajiv Bahl said that the cases are under investigation as a team of experts have collected various samples.
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India develops indigenous hand-held X-ray for TB screening
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Speaking at the 19th International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) INDIA-2024 on Wednesday, ICMR DG Dr Bahl said, "The handheld X-rays are available at a very high cost and now the IIT Kanpur in partnership with ICMR has developed a handheld X-ray indigenously which will
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Centre and top experts rejects study claiming 11.9 lakh excess Covid19 dea
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
"The paper that has been published today is looking at COVID-19 mortality and the reduction in life expectancy during the pandemic. What it is trying to look at is excess mortality during the COVID pandemic in the year 2020. Now the first thing to understand is this is not COVID deaths on
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"Poor methodology," ICMR dissociates itself from Covaxin safety study, cal
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Director General, ICMR, Rajiv Bahl, has written a letter to the authors of the paper and editor of the journal Springer Nature to immediately remove the acknowledgement to ICMR and publish an erratum. He also flagged the poor methodology and design of the study.
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MAHE and ICMR Jointly Inaugurate the Aerial Healthcare Delivery System Uti
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Manipal (Karnataka) [India], April 11: Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have joined forces to inaugurate the Deployment of a Robust Need based aerial healthcare delivery system (DRONE). The program aims to utilize drones for transpo
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Nipah virus: India to source 20 more doses of monoclonal antibody from Aus
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
ICMR Director General Dr Rajiv Bahl said that no one has been so far been administered the medicine in India, further highlighting that the medicine needs to be given during the early stage of the infection.
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