Indian companies are expected to dole out an average increment of 9.1 per cent in 2022, higher than the pre-COVID-19 increment in 2019, as companies are focusing on retention of talent through rewards. According to the 2022 Workforce and Increments Trends Survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP, the average India 2022 increment is expected to go up to 9.1 per cent from eight per cent in 2021. Moreover, the 2022 projected increment is higher than the pre-COVID-19 increment in 2019 by 50 basis points (bps).
The Institute of Clinical Research (India) invites applications for its one-year part-time Professional Certificate Programme in Clinical Research and Trials Management and the Professional Certificate Programme in Regulatory Affairs and Ethics.
Samvardhinee Nyas, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has started a campaign titled 'Garbha Sanskar' for pregnant women to teach babies culture and values in the womb, its national organising secretary Madhuri Marathe said on Monday.
The Welingkar Institute of Management, India, and Nottingham Trent University, UK, invite applications for their M Sc Bioinformatics programme.
Biovel Life Sciences (P) Ltd, a biotechnology firm, has inked a licensing agreement with US-based Dowpharma to produce Human Growth Hormone using Pfenex Expression Technology, for the first time globally.
The narrative is faithful to the source, American Prometheus, but what makes it absolutely spell-binding is Christopher Nolan's technique, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
Reliance Pharmaceuticals, the proposed pharmaceutical manufacturing company promoted by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Life Sciences, will soon rope in a consultant to give final shape to the project, slated to take off within two years.
Competing with established biotech companies in India such as Wockhardt, Biocon and Reliance Life Sciences, small biotech companies such as Zenotech, BV Biocorp and Intas Biopharma are likely to emerge as major players in biogeneric drugs.
Global pharma and biotech companies, especially those from US, Europe and Japan, are keen to sign agreements with Indian companies, according to experts.
Signs of alien life will be detected by 2025, while "definitive evidence" of extra-terrestrial beings may be found within the next 20 to 30 years, top NASA scientists say.
Despite news of the private equity in the domestic healthcare and pharma industry touching almost Rs 40 crore (Rs 40 million) in the first nine months of the year, PE firms are not exactly bullish about investing in the pharma industry alone. In fact, a closer look at the investments reveals that a larger part of the money is being flown into healthcare delivery systems like hospital chains and not in pharma companies.
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday pronounced a split verdict on the Centre's plea for recall of its October 9 order granting permission to a married woman, a mother of two, to terminate her 26-week pregnancy, with one judge voicing her disinclination to allow abortion and the other asserting that the woman's decision "must be respected".
US Vice President Kamala Harris said India's history and teachings have influenced and shaped the world, asserting the country has inspired millions of people through its philosophy.
According to the purchase order placed on Monday, each dose of the vaccine has been priced at Rs 200 and with GST of Rs 10, it would cost Rs 210.
The strike affected attendance in government offices and banks, the officials said.
Claiming that the cultural values among children were taking a beating, the minister said many people have demanded that moral science should be introduced.
Suven Life Sciences Ltd has signed an agreement with US-based pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Company to carryout pre-clinical research for central nervous system disorder.
Software services firm Netkraft on Thursday said it is being acquired by the privately held business process and technology consulting company, the United States-based Adea Solutions, in an all-cash deal.
'The war has been on for four weeks; the bombings are still on. I can hear it in my house.'
Hyderabad is fast emerging as destination for pharma and bio-tech industries with projected growth of 30 to 40 per cent, consultant company Frost and Sullivan has said.
'When a Project Director is appointed, the whole organization -- including the Chairman ISRO -- works for his success. It is a lesson that has been of abiding value all through the other projects I have worked on,' recalls the late President, one of the earliest pioneers at ISRO.
India, with its strong research and development base in life sciences, IT and pharma industries, is on the threshold of a revolution in biotechnology, scientists at the BioAsia 2004 Summit said in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Indian companies are likely to shell out an average salary increment of 10.3 per cent in the current fiscal with employees in pharma, health care and life sciences projected to get 12.4 per cent raise, says a survey.
Nittany, the healthcare BPO firm, is looking for a Professional Medical Coder.
'Sex is such a healthy thing that your first encounter with it should be good, otherwise it scars you for life, it disturbs you for life.'
On April 14, 2016, the crime branch of the Thane police had seized over 20 tonnes of ephedrine and 2.5 tonnes of acetic anhydride drugs from a pharmaceutical factory - Avon Life Sciences - in Solapur and other locations in Thane and Ahmedabad.
Wipro's clients currently include over 100 US payers, healthcare providers, and public health agencies.
'He said, "There was nobody to help me. I came from Kolkata to Mumbai to make a career of my own".' "'I have my own journey, and you need to experience that to value what you will have in the future.".'
Suven Pharmaceuticals' wholly owned subsidiary, Suven Life Sciences USA, has acquired the assets of the US-based Synthon Chiragenics, according to a release issued by Suven Pharmaceuticals to the BSE on Tuesday.
Interview with V Balakrishnan, Former CFO and board member of Infosys and AAP leader
Shanghvi needs to deploy this excess cash.
The Reliance group is planning to buy the plastics business of a well-known company in Pakistan for about $300 million, industry sources said on Monday.
Announcing its unique recruitment model, eLitmus.com, promoted by IT recruitment firm Browse Consulting, has said that it had signed up with 53 companies in IT, BPO, banking and financial cervices and life science sectors to hire 7500 fresh graduates
'A large portion of youngsters who aspire to join the civil services are not motivated by the spirit of public service and idealism of which the civil services offer in abundance.' 'When they join the mandarin club they look for the loaves and fishes of office, rather than make a difference and wipe what Mahatma Gandhi called 'every tear from every Indian',' points out Rup Narayan Das.
