ONGC sends 3 choppers, doctors and one day salary for Kerala

ONGC sends 3 choppers, doctors & one-day salaries for Kerala flood relief Mumbai, National energy major ONGC has joined the relief and rescue operations to help people of Kerala which is fighting the worst deluge in a century.

ONGC has pressed into service three helicopters from its major work centers of Mumbai and Kakinada, along with four doctors and dispatching consignment of medicines and food from August 19 to help in rescue operations, the company said. A company official also said, all the over 34000 employees of the energy major have decided to donate their one-day salary to the chief minister's relief fund.

Honda remains No 1 2-wheeler brand in West, touches 10-m-mark By adding 5 million more customers in just three years, the second largest two-wheeler maker Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India has crossed the 10-million customers in the Western region, thus retaining its No 1 position.

It took the auto major 14 years to add the first 5 million, the company said, adding nearly every second customer in the West region is now buying a Honda two-wheeler.

Honda, which runs the world's largest scooter-only plant at Vithalapur in Gujarat, said its cumulative sales in the Western region (Gujarat, Goa, and Maharashtra) has crossed the 1-crore unit mark since inception in 2001m helping it remain the No 1 two-wheeler brand across the region with a market share of 47 per cent.

Philips India to open 5 lactation centers Philips India has decided to set up five comprehensive lactation centers (CLMCs) to help reduce neonatal mortality and morbidity in collaboration with PATH, an international health-focused non-profit.

The first such center has come up at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Mumbai. The four will come up in New Delhi, UP, MP and Maharashtra, the company said.

Philips India also has big plans to enter into oral healthcare segments by launching more products from its international parent in the near future.

US FDA visits Gujarat lab Vadodara: The seven-member US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) team visiting the testing lab of the Gujarat FDCA here today will help in knowledge sharing, capacity building, raising compliance levels and exporting more drugs to the US market, a top FDCA official said.

It can be noted that the two regulators had last year signed an agreement for training drug control officials in the state on par with the USFDA standards to provide safe and efficacious medicines globally, state FDCA commissioner said.

As many as 124 USFDA-certified pharmaceutical units located in the state export drugs worth Rs 28,000 crore, out of the country's total export of Rs 1,00,000 crore to the US and other developed markets, according to him.

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