Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease affecting wide range of people 
across the globe. In India the rate of subjects being suffered from diabetes is 
continuously increasing. So, the development of drugs for its effective 
treatment is essential. Thereby, various attempts have been made to discover 
newer drugs, to reduce the rate of anti diabetic occurrence. Anti-diabetic drugs 
were found to treat diabetes mellitus by lowering glucose levels in the blood. 
Both the use antidiabetic drugs as well as the changes in lifestyle and proper 
diet can significantly affect the severity of diabetes mellitus and also reduces 
the symptoms and occurrence of the disease. Researches in the past few years on 
diabetes mellitus showed that this disease is spreading at a very faster rate, 
thereby; various attempts have been made to treat it efficaciously. Development 
and approval of antidiabetic drugs is quite necessary. There are different 
classes of anti-diabetic drugs reported to treat diabetes. The objective of the 
present review is to explore Invokana as a newly approved antidiabetic drug for 
the effective treatment of type 2 diabetes. This review focuses mainly on the 
various aspects of diabetes mellitus and its treatment perspectives. From the 
various clinical studies done on Invokana, it was concluded that and Invokana 
was found to be very effective for the efficacious therapy of diabetes mellitus.