New Delhi: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh on Saturday announced that India has successfully developed “Nafithromycin,” the country’s first indigenously discovered antibiotic effective against drug-resistant respiratory infections and particularly beneficial for cancer patients and diabetics with poor infection control.

According to the minister, this marks the first time an antibiotic molecule has been entirely conceptualised, developed, and clinically validated within India, representing a major step toward self-reliance in the pharmaceutical sector.

Dr. Singh highlighted that India has sequenced over 10,000 human genomes and plans to expand this to one million. He also revealed that India’s gene therapy trial recorded a 60–70%

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