Year: 2022

India stands for a free, open and rules-based Indo-Pacific as it is important for the economic development of not only the region but also the wider global community. This was stated by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh during his keynote address at the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD) in New Delhi on November 25, 2022. Shri Rajnath Singh highlighted India’s vision of the Indo-Pacific by quoting Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s statement during Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in June 2018. “The Prime Minister had said that India stands for a free,…

US regulators approved CSL Behring’s hemophilia B gene therapy, which is a one-off infusion that frees patients from regular treatments but costs $3.5 million a dose. This makes it the most expensive medicine in the world.   A key study of the therapy found that CSL Behring’s Hemgenix, administered just once, cut the number of bleeding events expected over the course of a year by 54%,. It also freed 94% of patients from time-consuming and costly infusions of Factor IX, which is currently used to control the potentially deadly condition.…

India wins the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Vice Presidency and Strategic Management Board (SMB) Chair for the 2023-25 term. By securing over 90% of the votes cast by full members of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) during its General Meeting held recently in San Francisco, USA, India’s representative, a member of the Indian National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and various technical committees of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS-India), was elected. Representation of BIS (India) in policy and governance bodies of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and IEC ensures…