The Special Police Establishment (SPE) of Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta has filed a charge-sheet against former Health Director Ashok Sharma under the Prevention of Corruption Act for alleged irregularities in the purchase of anti-TB drugs five years ago. ...
03:30 PM, Mar 24, 2013
After the news of a baby girl who was effectively cured of HIV in the US, a new study reports a functional cure for adults with HIV/AIDS, who were treated very early. Scientists in France said they selected 14 patients, who were treated within 10 weeks of being infected with HIV. They received treatment for three years but after that, the patients did not need antiretroviral treatment anymore. ...
07:55 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Artificially ripened Alphonso mangoes worth Rs 1.25 lakh were destroyed by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) at a local fruit market here, official sources said on Saturday. Around 1,400 kilos of Alphonso mangoes worth Rs 1.25 lakh were seized from a shop at Sharadchandra fruit market here on Thursday as they were being ripened artificially using calcium carbide, FDA sources said. ...
08:16 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Australia was rocked by a report that alleged "widespread" doping among professional and amateur athletes, with multiple players and top-flight teams implicated. ...
11:51 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Medicines shops are closed across Delhi on Friday to protest against the new drug policy. At least 10,000 medicines shops in Delhi are taking part in the protest and have downed their shutters inconveniencing lakhs of people. ...
01:27 PM, Mar 15, 2013
The Russian, 23, is already serving a one-year ban for her first doping offence. ...
12:30 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Lance Armstrong has been personally urged to make a full confession of all his involvement in doping by the founder of the lobby group Change Cycling Now. ...
09:31 AM, Mar 14, 2013
After boxer Vijender Singh refused to submit samples for drug testing, the Punjab Police is seeking court orders to collect them. The police have said that the samples have to be collected in the presence of its investigation Officer. ...
09:08 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Olympic medallist Vijender Singh is not cooperating in the multi-crore drug bust probe, said Punjab Police sources. The police is likely to explore legal options to test for drugs after the boxer refused to give blood samples. ...
10:39 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Shamya Dasgupta, author of 'Bhiwani Junction', joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the recent drug scandal affecting the image of Indian boxing. ...
06:42 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Olympics bronze medallist Vijender Singh has said that he is willing to provide his blood and hair samples to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) than to the Punjab police saying that the team that visited him on Monday to question him and take his samples was "ill-prepared" and did not have a doctor on board. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 12, 2013
A court in Chandigarh on Monday sentenced a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and his aide to 13 years in jail in a case of pilfering seized contraband. ...
04:35 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh on Monday denied that he took drugs, during questioning by Punjab Police. However, the boxer refused to give his hair and blood samples. ...
09:22 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Punjab police on Monday began questioning of Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh over his alleged involvement in the Rs 130 crore drug racket. His friend and a national-level boxer Ram Singh, who was expelled from Patiala's National Institute of Sports for his association with the case, had revealed that he and Vijender both consumed drugs, thinking they were food supplements. ...
07:15 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Russia will contribute an extra 300,000 euros a year to WADA, which carries out doping tests at the Olympics. ...
04:16 PM, Mar 11, 2013
A minor boy died after a teenager administered a drug overdose to him in Delhi, police said on Sunday. The accused has been taken into custody. "Saurabh, a class 5 student was playing outside his house in Karawal Nagar in east Delhi, on Saturday afternoon, when he was allegedly taken by a 17-year-old neighbour to an isolated place and injected with a drug overdose," said a police officer. ...
05:47 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The Rs 130 crore drug haul in Punjab, which has brought Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh and a national-level boxer Ram Singh in the dock, has highlighted a larger drug network in the state. A former top level sports man and Arjuna awardee Jagdish Bhola is said to be the kingpin of the network. ...
09:40 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Olympic medalist Vijender Singh is in the dock after his friend and national-level boxer Ram Singh confirmed they took drugs, believing them to be food supplements. But the boxing federation has backed Vijender and suspended Ram Singh from the national camp. ...
09:09 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said he does not think boxer Vijender Singh has any involvement with the drug haul case in Punjab, stressing that law would take its own course. The Chief Minister was asked to comment on the Olympic medallist's name cropping up in connection with the Rs 130 crore heroin haul in Punjab's Zirakpur recently. ...
08:04 PM, Mar 10, 2013
India's national boxing coach GS Sandhu came to support the Olympic medal winning boxer Vijender Singh amidst allegations against him in the Rs 130 crore drug haul, even as Ram Singh, another national-level boxer who is under investigation in the case, was expelled by Patiala's National Institute of Sports on Sunday. ...
04:58 PM, Mar 10, 2013
