Mumbai: Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd shares were down over 1 per cent in early trade on Tuesday after the generic drugmaker pleaded guilty to US felony charges related to drug safety and will pay $500 million in civil and criminal fines.
The settlement is its largest-ever with a generic drugmaker over drug safety, according to the US government.
Ranbaxy USA pleaded guilty to three felony counts related to the manufacture of drugs at two Indian locations that did not meet safety standards and to four counts of making material false statements.
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10:13 AM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: Generic drugmaker Ranbaxy has been fined $500 million by the US government after its subsidiary pleaded guilty to sale of adulterated drugs manufactured in India. It is the largest settlement by a generic medicine maker till date. It includes $150 million in payments for a criminal fine and forfeiture and $350 million in payments for civil claims. The adulterated drugs were made in Ranbaxy's plants in India and...
08:30 AM, May 14, 2013
Patna: At least seven people, including a woman, died after they consumed spurious liquor in a village in Bihar's Bhojpur district, police said on Friday. The incident happened late Thursday in Anitha village in Bhojpur district. The villagers started complaining of stomach pain and began vomiting after consuming the liquor. "Police were informed Friday morning about the deaths due to spurious liquor," a district official said. A probe has been...
11:54 AM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: Ram Gopal Varma is one filmmaker who never shied away from being voyeuristic. Varma has made films such as 'Nishabd' and 'Not A Love Story' where the camera was extremely close to the subject, in fact cuts suggested that it might have touched the actors. If reports are to believed then the individualist director is now going to turn the famous cartoon strip 'Savita Bhabhi' into a celluloid...
01:47 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Yet again before Diwali, raids across the country have revealed adulteration in sweets. In Delhi alone, samples of sweets and dry fruits were found unsafe. ...
10:00 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: With just two days to go before Diwali, a crackdown on spurious sweets has begun across the country. But the fear of adulteration hasn't hampered business. Fifteen quintal spurious mawa seized in Moradabad, 20 quintal adulterated sweets recovered in Jaipur and sweets worth Rs 12 lakh found in Thane. With the sale of thousands of kilograms of sweets, adulteration too is on the rise in this particular season...
06:41 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Badaun: A mob of 150 people allegedly tried to set the District Supply Officer (DSO) and his team in Dehgava village on fire after he sealed a fair price shop selling adulterated diesel on Thursday. The mob reportedly tried to set the DSO, Neeraj Singh, and his driver, on fire by hurling kerosene, but they managed to escape. An FIR has been filed against 154 people, including 150 unidentified people,...
11:00 AM, Oct 19, 2012
When I started reading, 'A Monster Calls' by Patrick Ness, I did not imagine that I would be so taken in by the story, that I would be impacted by its plot to this extent, that I would cry at the end of the book or for that matter not stop thinking about it. I rarely cry when I read books but some of them just compel me to because...
02:17 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is JK Rowlings first novel for adults. The Casual Vacancy is the first ever high-security book to be printed locally in India. In India the book releases under high security at 2.30 pm. The cover is designed by Mario J Pulice, illustration and hand lettering by Joel Holland. It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and...
01:46 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The government is planning a whistleblower system, by introducing rewards to informers on adulterated food and ingredients, said Health Minister V S Sivakumar here on Saturday, inaugurating a seminar on Food Safety and Standards Act,2006. It has become clear that right from salt to meat, fish and vegetables, adulteration has become common. It is not the retail traders who are indulging in malpractices but wholesalers and those who are...
01:55 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: If anyone told me four years ago I'd be writing about Sherlyn Chopra, I'd have asked "Sherlyn Chopra, who?" The odd child of a booming Indian social media scene, Chopra arrived blazing across the horizon, riding a popularity wave in the wake of a tremendous publicity coup she pulled over contemporaries, many of whom with little or no access to the magical world of influential Hindi film stars....
10:57 AM, Sep 06, 2012
Los Angeles: Britain's Prince Harry has reportedly been offered $10 million to star in an adult film. The British royal is being lined to appear in an adult movie called The Trouble With Harry based on his naked antics in Las Vegas last weekend, reported TMZ online. Vivid Entertainment's Steve Hirsch has sent a letter to the royal Palace in London detailing his full offer to the 'party Prince'. "We...
11:30 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone has been roped in as the face of imbesharam.com, a US-based adult Webstore, which will be launched on September 1, 2012 in India and on Jan 1, 2013 worldwide. She says she can't wait to see the website going live. "Excited!! My new endorsement Besharam site landing page is up http://www.imbesharam.com @imbesharam(sic)" Sunny tweeted. The Webstore will carry a wide range of products...
06:14 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Islamabad: In a shocking incident, a man and a woman arrested on charges of "intent to commit adultery" were paraded naked by police through a town in Sindh province of southern Pakistan, according to a media report on Saturday. Mumtaz Mirbahar, a trader, and a woman were arrested by police in Gambat town in Sindh on July 27. They were forced to walk naked through the town to the police...
11:21 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: With food adulteration being reported from various parts of the state, Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) has decided to purchase meat and fish from government agencies for all its hotels. The purchase will be made from the Livestock Development Board, Meat Products of India, Kerala State Coastal Area Development Corporation and other agencies. This will ensure that quality food is being served in all the KTDC hotels. KTDC managing...
02:18 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Diabetes is the most common cause of adult blindness. Early detection and treatment is the key to maintaining vision. ...
10:07 AM, Jul 31, 2012
Suhasini: Hello and welcome to World View with me, Suhasini Haidar. Tonight we have a special interview on the show. Shashi Tharoor, UN Under-Secretary General formerly and also formerly Minister for State or External Affairs, Member of Parliament today and also an author. He's out with a new book and we ask him, 'Is India's Foreign Policy Paralysis' just like many say the Economic Policy is, Also ahead a gruesome ...
11:04 PM, Jul 13, 2012
A man alleged to be a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul. Violence against women has increased sharply in the past year, according to Afghanistan's independent human rights commission. Is the world turning its back on Afghan women? Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar for a debate in World View on Friday at 10 pm. ...
04:15 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is JK Rowlings first novel for adults. The cover is designed by Mario J Pulice, illustration and hand lettering by Joel Holland. It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults. Earlier reports had suggested that 'The Casual Vacancy,' will have the magic touch. The book will be...
08:15 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Khartoum: A Sudanese woman, believed to be around 20, has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, and is being held near Khartoum, shackled in prison with her baby son, rights groups and lawyers said on Thursday. Campaigners condemned the ruling, saying it violated international standards and raised concerns that Sudan might start applying sharia, or Islamic law, more strictly following the secession of mostly non-Muslim South Sudan...
09:59 AM, Jun 01, 2012
