From Policy to Practice: How India’s Pharmaceutical Industry is Being Shaped by the PLI Scheme – by Vikram Aditya Sehgal, Director – Finance, Centrient India

The PLI scheme focuses on incentivizing a strategic shift towards high-value, innovative products such as biologics, complex generics, and specialty formulations

FDA grants breakthrough therapy designation to Ifinatamab Deruxtecan for lung cancer patients

Fourteenth breakthrough therapy designation granted by FDA across the oncology portfolio of Daiichi Sankyo

European Commission grants approval of Ogsiveo

OGSIVEO is the first and only therapy to receive marketing authorization in the EU for the treatment of desmoid tumors

Enable injections receives enFuse system approval in Brazil and UK registration

Firstsource and Guidehealth partner to advance AI-enabled value-based care for health plans

The collaboration will combine Firstsource’s AI-first approach with Guidehealth’s expertise in value-based care innovation

UFlex posts Q1 FY26 PAT at Rs. 58 Cr

The company’s virgin PET chips plant in Egypt, commissioned in Q4 FY25, achieved 74.8 per cent capacity utilization in its first full quarter. In India, the Panipat facility operated at 96.6 per cent utilization

Indoco Remedies receives final USFDA approval for rivaroxaban tablets

Rivaroxaban is used to treat venous thromboembolism

Zydus Lifesciences reports Q1 FY26 net profit at Rs. 1,466.8 Cr

The company reported revenue from operations at Rs. 6,573.7 crore, up 6 per cent YoY

Briefs: Nectar Lifesciences, Cipla and Marksans Pharma

Marksans Pharma gets USFDA nod for acid reflux drug

Zydus receives final approval from USFDA for Diltiazem Hydrochloride Tablets USP

Diltiazem works by relaxing blood vessels, which reduces the workload on the heart and increases blood and oxygen supply to the heart muscle