Mint Explainer | Why India plans to end ‘double testing’ for plasma-derived medicines

Harpreet Kaur, medical superintendent, head , Lab Services and Blood Centre, Aakash Healthcare in Delhi, said, “The process of production of the product involves multiple viral inactivation processes, and the blood products undergo testing at the donor level and pre-processing. The second testing causes delays and adds to the cost of production. India still imports…

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West Asia war may claim an unlikely casualty — Indian films’ run overseas

Over 9 million Indian expatriates reside in West Asia, primarily within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), making it the largest concentration of Indian diaspora globally. The South Indian diaspora in West Asia, particularly from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka, forms a massive expatriate community, primarily in United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Oman…

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