Researchers and scientists in India would have to be innovative if the country wished to unleash its vast intellectual potential, chairman and managing director of Biocon Ltd Kiran Mazumdar Shaw said on Saturday.
Addressing aspiring entrepreneurs, Biocon Chief Shaw adviced them never to fear failure.
Biotechnology major Biocon has got the Drug and Controller General of India approval for marketing its BIOMAb EGFR in the Indian market. This is a proprietary product of Biocon, which will be used in treating head and neck cancers.
Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said India has lost one of the finest political leaders and a legal luminary.
Two career-best centuries by Rakesh Solanki (186) and Yusuf Pathan (183) helped hosts Vadodara take a 145-run first innings lead against Bengal as they piled a mammoth 515 runs on the penultimate day of their four-day Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' match at the Motibaug Palace ground in Vadodara on Saturday.
A quiz on women who have made it big in the corporate world.
Nobex, after running out of money last year, had filed for bankruptcy.
Blaming it on the "ineffective" bureaucracy and "very confused" ruling coalition in Karnataka, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, managing director of Biocon Ltd on Friday said infrastructural woes were impeding the growth of Bangalore.
In a bid to enter the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal, Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo members Sitaram Yechuri and Brinda Karat on Monday filed their nominations for the upcoming election to the Upper House.
East Bengal named Bikash Panji as the interim coach for the upcoming Durand Cup
Six Indian women have made it to Asia's most powerful women list released by Forbes.
Leading biotech firm, Biocon Ltd, on Tuesday said it would invest $10 million (about Rs 45 crore) in the next 12 months to expand its facilities.
The biggest spender was Tata Motors, with Rs 4,224.6 crore assigned under the R&D head.
Biocon Ltd ill seek Drug Controller General of India's approval for its novel monoclonal antibody indicated towards the treatment of head and neck cancer, Biomab EGFR.
The company expects insulin, its other branded formulations and research services to drive growth.
Three Indian women -- ICICI Bank deputy managing director Chanda Kochhar, HSBC India CEO Naina Lal Kidwai and Biocon head Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -- have been named among the world's 50 most powerful businesswomen by the Fortune magazine.
'We are going to be overwhelmed by the need for hospital beds. There are simply not enough beds in government hospitals.' 'We will need a large number of medical professionals and without the private sector's involvement, the government won't be able to expand capacity.'
Ambani is also the year's biggest gainer, adding USD 9.3 billion to his wealth amid the continuing success of his Reliance Jio broadband telco service.
Dubai-based don Aftab Ansari, the main accused, was convicted for murder, conspiracy and waging war against the country.
Replying to Mumbai's first innings of 115, Hyderabad were 253 for 5 at stumps on day 2 of the Ranji Trophy match.
Indian biotech firm Biocon is developing potential 'blockbuster' drugs for treatment of cancer and diabetes, which could hit the market in two to four years.
The Enforcement Directorate probing the multi-crore Saradha scam money trail today interrogated Rajya Sabha Trinamool Congress MP Ahmed Hassan Imran for the second time.
Earlier, Jaslok Hospital had issued an advisory to its doctors to avoid prescribing drugs manufactured by Ranbaxy.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clarke on Monday said there were immense opportunities to enhance bilateral trade with India.
The AAP government locked Principal Secretary (Services) Anindo Majumdar out of his office on Monday.
Test discard Wasim Jaffer scored an unbeaten 206 as Mumbai amassed 329 for 2 by close of day 1 in the Elite Group 'A' Ranji Trophy match against Delhi.
Biotech major Biocon will file an application with the US Federal Drug Administration to begin clinical trials for oral insulin, which, it says, would be the world's first insulin that could be consumed orally.
The auditors -- the local arms of the Big Four global firms Deloitte Haskins & Sells and KPMG which has BSR & Associates as an affiliate here-had challenged the jurisdiction of the NCLT to ban them.
"We are growing fast. We are planning to double the manpower to 4,000 from 2,000 at present. Within a very short period we increased the number of employees by 500 to reach 2000," Biocon Chairman and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar Shaw said.
Fine bowling by Ashraf Makda and Hitesh Majumdar helped Gujarat restrict Madhya Pradesh to 242 for 7.
India's largest biotech firm Biocon on Wednesday launched its "recombinant human insulin (r-DNA), Insugen
On course to become India's first biotech company to be listed on a stock exchange, Bangalore-based Biocon Ltd on Thursday kicked off a roadshow for its initial public offering that opens on March 11.
