Pharmaceuticals

Renata enters Portugal with first shipment of therapeutics

Renata said it aims to build a reputation in Portugal for quality and reliability, as in other European markets
4 August 2026

Factories at API park still unable to start production

Makers of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) at the API Industrial Park in Gazaria of Munshiganj have fallen into uncertainty as bureaucratic complexities and the lack of gas connections are preventing them from starting production.
8 August 2023

Essential Drugs rationing saline to govt hospitals

Essential Drugs, the state-owned pharmaceutical company, is rationing injectable saline to public hospitals to manage the high demand arising from the unyielding surge in dengue patients.
6 August 2023

ACI sends first pharma shipment to US subsidiary

ACI Healthcare’s Narayanganj facility exports the products to its subsidiary in the USA
11 February 2023

What is a “Model Pharmacy”?

Here's a quick explanation.
1 December 2021

SC also for stopping production of 20 drug companies

Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that directed the government to halt production of 20 pharmaceutical companies for manufacturing substandard drugs. The apex court also asks the HC to hear and dispose of the rule over legality of the government’s inaction to stop production of the 20 companies by August 18.
15 June 2016

Halt production of 20 pharma companies, HC asks govt

The High Court directs the government to halt production of medicines by 20 pharmaceutical companies in seven days for allegedly producing substandard drugs.
7 June 2016

JUSTICE DELAYED, NOT DENIED

Adflame's Paracetamol syrup Flammadol containing toxic chemical diethylene glycol was responsible for the deaths of a number of children between 1982 and 1992.
22 July 2014