HYDERABAD: The family of an engineering student who died under controversial circumstances in the Hyderabad central prison believe that they are being denied justice...
Tauqeer Mashoori, a final year student at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology’s electrical department, was arrested along with two friends — Sohail Mari and Saif Katpar — on June 26 in a liquor case by the GOR police
As the NED Engineering University in Karachi turns 100, an academic fondly looks back at the history of engineering and engineering education in Sindh, and questions how universities can regain their lost glory...
Can the engineers of tomorrow be inspired to dream of a brighter future for the country?There is little wonder why this is
As the NED Engineering University in Karachi turns 100, an academic fondly looks back at the history of engineering and engineering education in Sindh, and questions how universities can regain their lost glory...
Can the engineers of tomorrow be inspired to dream of a brighter future for the country?There is little wonder why this is
In 1992, the editor of The Times of India telephoned one of Mumbai’s most prominent businessmen, Yusuf K Hamied...
The editor asked Hamied, “as a Muslim leader” his opinion on communal riots that were taking place in the city
KARACHI: The growth of pharmaceutical industry has dropped to around eight per cent per annum from approximately 16 per cent, said Pharma Bureau (PB) Chairman Arshad Saeed Hussain on Thursday...
Talking to newsmen, he said the bureau seeks a predictable and transparent regulatory environment which includes a proper system for registration of drugs and clearing up the ever increasing backlog
LAHORE: Some pharmaceutical companies are involved in an illegal business of selling cardiac medicines, surgical items and orthopaedic implants at Jinnah Hospital with the alleged connivance of doctors and administration officials of the institute...
The companies have set up mobile pharmacies in the cardiology and orthopaedic departments of the hospital and cheating poor patients by selling life-saving drugs and surgical implants at...
NEW YORK: Less than an hour after a US jury convicted Martin Shkreli of securities fraud, the so-called “Pharma Bro” was back at his New York City apartment doing what comes naturally: trash talking in a live-stream on YouTube...
The brash former pharmaceutical CEO, who’s still out on bail, joked he won’t be going to a hard-core prison “No shanks” and predicted his acquittal on some charges on Friday will help him recover tens of...
KARACHI: ICI Pakistan Ltd has executed an asset purchase agreement with Wyeth Pakistan Ltd and Pfizer Pakistan Ltd for the acquisition of certain assets at the aggregate purchase price of Rs1...
91 billion
KARACHI: The business leaders of auto, cement and pharma sectors gave a mixed reaction to the split decision by a five-member bench of the Supreme Court on the Panama Papers case...
Some were not happy with the verdict while others claimed that it will bode well for the economy
KARACHI: Despite pricing and policy constraints, pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan are producing quality drugs under the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) Code of Conduct, a statement released by the representative body of pharma industry said...
During a visit to a GSK production facility in SITE, Karachi, Pharma Bureau (PB) representatives said that despite regulatory challenges,...
NEW YORK: Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager vilified in nearly every corner of America for buying a pharmaceutical company and jacking up the price of a life-saving drug more than fifty-fold, was arrested on Thursday on securities fraud charges unrelated to the furore...
The boyish-looking 32-year-old entrepreneur — a relentlessly self-promoting figure who has called himself "the world's most eligible bachelor" on Twitter and...
KARACHI: The pharmaceutical industry, beset by suspension of Pakistan International Airlines flights, sees a tough week ahead if operations did not resume, as it relies on raw material imports from India and some other countries...
Former chairman of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) Saeed Allawala said that the industry imports raw material worth $350-400 million per annum mainly from India, Europe and China
ISLAMABAD: Even announcing its decision about four decades ago, the ministry of health has not yet formulated a policy to ensure multinational pharmaceutical companies produced raw materials in Pakistan and did not import them...
However, Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Saira Afzal Tarar claimed that steps were being taken and within a few years medicines would be manufactured with locally-made raw materials
ISLAMABAD: Pharmaceutical companies have blamed the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) for the current shortage of certain medicines in the country...
Their representative body, the Pharma Bureau, urged the Drap in a statement on Tuesday to revise its mechanism for controlling the supply of Ephedrine, Pseudoephedrine and other Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) that are used in manufacturing cough and cold syrups,...
A sparkling and sprawling 48,000-square-foot two-story structure, decorated with artwork of animals etched onto interior glass walls, recently opened its doors 23 miles outside Indianapolis with one sole purpose: to keep the globe’s 70 billion farm animals healthy...
That increasingly means less reliance on antibiotics for animals