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
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. ...
11:54 AM, Dec 07, 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
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
New Delhi: If you thought your glass of milk will give you guaranteed nutrition, think again! The first mass survey of quality of milk supplied to consumers across the country by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has led to shocking discoveries with as many as 69 per cent of the samples failing the test of purity. At least 14 per cent of milk samples were found to...
12:10 PM, Jan 15, 2012
A study finds that more than 68 per cent of milk tested is contaminated with water, detergent, even urea. ...
11:47 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: A glass of milk a day used to be a good idea. But, if the latest round of tests by the Food Safety Standards Authority are anything to go by, it's only safe to drink milk in Goa and Puducherry. A new report shows that in the first cup of morning milk, one is having a lot of things with milk, like starch, detergent, salt, glucose, urea and...
09:39 AM, Jan 11, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Malayali has taken to foreign cuisine like bee to honey. Continental, Thai, Arabic, Italian... every flavour has takers here. The new tastes have expelled many number of desi snacks and recipes out of business. The list is growing by the minute with all kinds of recipes available at the click of a mouse, more number of cookery shows flashing on the TV screens than movies and reality shows and...
11:11 AM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: With the sale of thousands of kilograms of sweets being sold this Diwali, adulteration is on the rise and is making news. Agencies are carrying out raids across the country in order to avoid the sale of spurious sweets. Lucknow Additional City Magistrate Arun Kumar said, "We have found around two quintals of sweets that had been made in unhygienic conditions. We have destroyed this lot." Agencies in...
07:07 AM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: White paint in milk, crushed toilet paper in khoya and animal fat in ghee - you could find all of it in your sweets this Diwali. CNN-IBN joins Delhi government's raids on producers of adulterated sweets. India all set to celebrate Diwali but this time around eat sweets at your own risk. You may be consuming paint and toilet paper for all you know. If the sweets look...
07:13 PM, Nov 03, 2010
Raids across India have led to recoveries of adulterated foods. ...
05:18 PM, Oct 15, 2009
The khoya was prepared in interior areas of UP and sent to the city. ...
03:41 PM, Oct 15, 2009
A CNN-IBN expose farmers in Bihar inject steroids into crops. ...
07:41 PM, Jun 19, 2009
At least six babies died and 3 lakh fell ill of contaminated milk. ...
05:41 PM, Jan 22, 2009
Colombo: Captain Kumar Sangakkara hit his 24th Test century on Wednesday and shared 170 runs with Thilan Samaraweera to propel Sri Lanka to 294-5 before rain ended the second day's play of the second cricket Test against the West Indies. Samaraweera made 80 including eight boundaries and a six to help rescue Sri Lanka after it was reduced to 34-3 on the opening day. He was out shortly after lunch, ...
12:15 AM, Nov 08, 2007
Sydney: An Australian brewery will provide a free beer for every adult in the country if the Australian cricket team wins the Ashes Test series against England starting this month. Team sponsor Carlton and United Breweries announced the promotion in Sydney on Tuesday at a launch attended by captain Ricky Ponting. If Australia wins back the Ashes, the brewery will print vouchers in five Australian newspapers which can be redeemed ...
11:00 PM, Nov 05, 2007
Almost a quarter of the milk produced in Maharashtra is adulterated. ...
11:25 PM, Nov 02, 2007
Johannesburg: A tell-all book about South African cricket by batsman Hershelle Gibbs was sold out within two days, the South African Sunday Times reported on Sunday. Gibbs, who is still under contract to the South African national team, describes sex orgies involving national team players and marijuana-smoking in To The Point. He also says the South African national team, which is called the Proteas, are controlled by a small clique,...
10:51 AM, Nov 02, 2007
It's black gold and it's clogging the lungs of Kolkata. But people are learning to live with the toxic mixture. ...
05:31 PM, Jun 12, 2007
