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DRDO Scientist Develops Herbal Drug to Treat Leucoderma

As the world marks June 25 as International Vitiligo Day, Pandey, who heads the Herbal Medicine Division of DRDO’s Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER) at Pithoragarh, talked about Lukoskin, which is presently manufactured and marketed by Delhi-based AIMIL Pharma Ltd.

Make in India: HAL Delivers Gun Bay Door for the F/A-18 Super Hornet

These gun bay doors being manufactured at the HAL facility in Bengaluru are an example of American aerospace Boeing Company’s ongoing commitment to India and its robust investment in Indian defence and aerospace ecosystem. To help realize the Make in India vision to its full potential, the US Company has offered to build a 21st century aerospace ecosystem in India

Modi 2.0 regime enhances India’s Defence Exports Licensing Policy

Although the details of the new policy were not divulged completely, the Indian Official indicated that the new mechanism would aim to ease the administrative burden on Indian defence exporters. “We are working on launching the Open General Export Licence [system] where the entire process of [getting] permission from government will be further reduced,” he said.

ICMR Scientists Identify New Biomarker for Malaria

Scientists at the NIRTH have found that an enzyme called glutamate dehydrogenase could offer a solution. “Our study provides scientific evidence for the conserved nature of glutamate dehydrogenase sequences in Indian isolates which can be used as a potential biomarker for diagnosis of malaria,” said Dr. Praveen Kumar Bharti, leader of the research team.