Vadodara's new bridge lets you walk through a crocodile's mouth.๐๐
๐น 57-metre-long crocodile-shaped pedestrian bridge at Sayaji Baug
๐น 7.80 metres wide with dedicated walkway & cycle track
๐น Advanced LED lighting for night views
๐น Project cost: โน11.25 crore
Sayaji Baug's iconic new landmark.
Shilpa medicare has signed a co-development and supply agreement with Orion Corporation, a Nordic pharmaceutical company based in Finland, to bring an intravenous nivolumab biosimilar to the European market.
Nivolumab is a major immuno-oncology drug (a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor) used in cancers like melanoma and lung cancer. The originator product recorded roughly USD 4.1 billion in European sales in 2025
Disclaimer : Not a buy/sell recommendation.
Is Shilpa Medicare Quietly Turning the Corner? A Deep Dive into Its Reโrating Potential
Over the last 2โ3 years, Shilpa Medicare has moved from being a capex-heavy, promise-heavy story to a business that is actually delivering numbers โ and quietly rebuilding its strategic position in complex pharma and CDMO.
Hereโs a synthesis of recent developments and growth potential
Business model: from โplain genericsโ to complex + CDMO
Management has been deliberately repositioning Shilpa around:
Complex, highโbarrier APIs (oncology, peptides, polymers)
Differentiated formulations (505(b)(2) injectables, transdermal patches, ODFs)
Biologics & recombinant albumin
Integrated CDMO (API + FDF + biologics)
This is visible in the numbers:
Formulations and biologics/CDMO now contribute a growing share of revenue and an outsized share of profit, while commodity APIs are being deprioritised.
Key positive developments in the last 12 months
a) NorUDCA โ first-in-class NAFLD therapy in India
Successful Phase III with strong fibrosis-reversal data.
CDSCO approval and launch as NODUCATM; Shilpa is the first company globally with NorUDCA approved for NAFLD.
Goโtoโmarket: partnered with 3 large Indian companies + own brand.
Management estimates capturing 10โ20% of treated NAFLD patients in India over 3โ5 years.
India ramp from FY27; global development (EU/US) to start from FY27.
b) Recombinant Human Albumin (rHA) โ deโrisking & monetisation
rHA produced via yeast (Pichia); animalโoriginโfree, high purity.
EUโexclusive therapeutic commercialisation deal with Orion โ upfront + milestones already flowing into licensing income.
US DMF filed for excipient-grade albumin; samples with clients in evaluation.
India and EU Phase III studies to start in FY26; 12โ15 month trials followed by filings โ potential launch around FY28โ29.
c) Oxylanthanum Carbonate (OLC) โ CDMO still intact
Unicyciveโs OLC (hyperphosphatemia) received an FDA CRL due to issues at a thirdโparty DP CMO, not Shilpaโs data.
Tech transfer completed to a new USFDA/EUโapproved CMO; registration batches made and submitted.
Shilpa is building a dedicated block for OLC (API + FDF), with client funding support.
Management now guides for approval and commercialisation in FY27. Still seen as a โsignificantโ multiโyear revenue driver.
d) Biologics & biosimilars โ platform validated
Biologics site (Dharwad) received EU GMP and additional Gulf approvals.
Aflibercept biosimilar in India Phase III, targeted for FY27 launch; partners already onboard in India and Russia.
Nivolumab, Pembrolizumab, Daratumumab, Dupilumab, Trastuzumab at various lateโpreclinical / scaleโup stages.
Novel biologics (mAbTree oncology mAb, Alveolus LBP) expected to enter Phase I human trials in FY27.
Biologics CDMO: 5โ6 active programs, including a longโterm microbial CDMO contract (DS+DP).
e) Peptides, polymers & API/CDMO
GLPโ1 peptides:
Liraglutide โ validation done; DMF ready; global filings and captive formulation underway.
Semaglutide โ development complete; PV campaign to finish by Q4 FY26, filings in H1 FY27.
Third highโcapacity peptide line under construction.
Specialty polymers: large nonโpharma contract (~USD 4 mn) in steady state; ophthalmic polymers developed with global customers.
API: Tranexamic and UDCA capacities expanded; NorUDCA API commercialising; multiple validationโstage oncology APIs (Nilotinib, Palbociclib, Olaparib, etc.).
f) Structure & management
Merger of Shilpa Therapeutics into Shilpa Medicare approved by NCLT (app. date 1 Apr 2025) โ simplifies structure and brings ODF/TDS fully under the listed entity.
New COOโFormulations appointed (Dr. Vellaian Karuppiah), consolidating leadership for the rampโup phase.
Latin America biosimilar commercialisation deal signed with SteinCares.
What if the future of fiber wasnโt about laying more cables, but about designing smarter ones?
In this episode of Time Machine, we explore how high-density microcables are redefining fiber deployment by enabling greater capacity, faster rollouts, and more scalable network expansion, all within existing infrastructure.
From FTTx and metro networks to hyperscale data centers, discover the engineering innovations shaping the next generation of optical connectivity.
๐๏ธ The episode is now streaming on Spotify: https://t.co/bGjhiDI9xz
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INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 60-minute Cambridge lecture by Demis Hassabis will teach you more about the future of AI than most people will learn in the next 5 years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Skip transformer math to build AI agents in 2026.
You just need these 6 (+1) core architectural pillars.
๐ญ. ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น (๐ ๐๐ฃ)
Think "USB-C for AI." One universal standard that lets any agent plug into external tools and data โ instead of hand-building an integration for every tool. Anthropic introduced it; the industry adopted it fast.
๐ฎ. ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฝ๐
The engine behind every agent. A cycle of: perceive โ think โ act โ observe โ repeat. The agent keeps looping until the task is done, or it decides it's stuck. No loop, no autonomy.
๐ฏ. ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐น๐
The agent's job description. MCP handles the connection and tools expose the API, a Skill is the higher-level logic that orchestrates them into a finished outcome.
๐ฐ. ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐น๐๐ถ-๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ
Two ends of one spectrum. Single-agent: one LLM runs the whole pipeline. Multi-agent: specialized agents split the work, one retrieves, one validates, one writes, trading simplicity for scale.
๐ฑ. ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐๐
RAG with a brain. The agent can route queries to specialized knowledge sources, validate retrieved context, and make dynamic decisions about what information to use.
๐ฒ. ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐
Short-term lives in the context window; long-term is pulled on demand from external stores (knowledge bases or vector databases). It's what keeps agents coherent across interactions, and lets them learn from past ones.
๐ณ. ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป-๐ถ๐ป-๐๐ต๐ฒ-๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฝ (๐๐๐ง๐)
The ultimate guardrail. Autonomous loops are powerful, but pure autonomy is dangerous for high-stakes tasks. HITL inserts human checkpoints for approval or correction before critical actions run.
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Kirloskar Oil engines , today everyone is asking this question if they can close the gap with Cummins , when we did last month in the note below
What I am proud of here is the way we we were able to catch this when no one was talking about it at all and get the substack note published as well , returns coming that fast is luck
Really happy with the work on KOEL and note we published , staying ahead of the curve rewards big if process is strong
Coal Gasification , Air Blown Gasifier mechanism , mapping the process and commercial viability
Remains crucial to study this at this time , considering the global crisis as well as Government recent push on this
One thing I would recommend people interested to study in this is global players , read what Mitsubishi and other are doing here , a lot will be clear at plant economics level
We have also written a detailed note on this in the Indian Context
https://t.co/tYlQ6VE9r2
As we continue our journey to build an Indian product engineering company that the world can be proud of, our focus remains unchanged: creating long-term value for our customers, employees and shareholders.
Read more from our Managing Director & Group CEO, Mr. Vivek Vikram Singh, in the Annual Report 2025โ26: https://t.co/pU6a7CWT0e
Sona Comstar , reading the annual report today , it is probably one of the most honest and heartfelt reports written with Vivek Singh's thoughts , as well for the management highlighting the recent loss in their family and a tough year for them , appreciate their honesty with the kind of challenges a high end precision engineering co can face
Interesting to read their capability depth , railways integration with panels , PV R&D focus and a lot more , I would say must read annual report , have highlighted pages that I also found interesting in the report
Great companies take time to build , especially through challenges they always come out better !