Mumbai: The government is planning to control the prices of costly patented drugs with a view to making them affordable to poor, phrama secretary Dilsher Singh Kalha said in Mumbai on Friday. "A committee has already finalised a proposal (in this regard) and we will put it out in the public domain in a month or so," Kalha told reporters on the sidelines of an industry function in Mumbai on...
09:57 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Hyderabad: When 10-year-old Mohd. Umar first inhaled a whitener fluid off a piece of paper in the company of his friends, little did he know what he was getting into. Same is the case with nine-year-old Sadiq and 20-year-old Syed Fasi. The trio are among hundreds of such boys addicted to whiteners in the Old City. Whitener is a white fluid containing organic solvents, used to erase errors in handwritten...
01:27 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Mumbai: Television actress Shilpa Agnihotri is among 86 people who tested positive for allegedly consuming drugs at a high-profile rave party in a plush hotel in suburban Juhu in May, police said in Mumbai on Tuesday. "Actress Shilpa Agnihotri's blood report suggests she consumed drugs," a police officer said, refusing to name the drug. The police had earlier revealed that 86 out of 90 people, who attended the sundown party...
08:51 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Indian legspinner Rahul Sharma, who was at a rave party during IPL 5, has been tested positive for drugs. ...
08:41 AM, Jul 21, 2012
Mumbai: Indian spinner Rahul Sharma faces arrest after testing positive for consumption of drugs at a rave party held in a posh Juhu hotel in May this year, putting in jeopardy his participation at the ODI series against Sri Lanka that begins on Saturday. Sharma was present at the party along with South African cricketer Wayne Parnell when it was busted by the police. The question now is whether Sharma...
07:35 AM, Jul 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Many middle-class and gullible parents were properly horrified these last few days after a few channels aired footage of youngsters dancing and smoking hookah. But youngsters seem least bothered with the police raids on hookah parlours. The reason is simple enough. In this Nawabi city, its pretty easy to buy a hookah. There is so much of fuss about hookahs just because the police have started to crack the...
11:38 AM, Jul 14, 2012
London: With the 2012 London Games less than three weeks away, a book has exposed that during the event the Olympic Village becomes a party-zone where athletes indulge in wild sex, drinking and drugs. According to the anonymously authored expose, The Secret Olympics, written by a former British competitor, its always a struggle keeping booze and condoms in strong supply. According to the author, organisers at the 2000 Sydney Olympics...
01:18 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Almost two months after a Parliament Standing Committee raised an alarm on untested drugs, it has been found that they are still being freely sold in the market. The shocking findings of the Parliament committee had put a huge question mark on the credibility of the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation, highlighting loopholes in drug safety laws. According to its report, 33 new drugs were approved by the...
07:12 AM, Jul 06, 2012
London: A 65-year-old Briton hanged himself and left a suicide note that said he had stabbed to death a drug dealer because of whom his son died following the use of a fatal ecstasy pill just a day after his 28th birthday. Roy Allison was found dead just hours after 36-year-old drug dealer Duncan Bell was found stabbed in the heart, the Daily Mail reported. Allison, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, said...
02:00 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Kochi: Even as the illicit sale of medicines containing narcotic substances is showing a rising trend in the district, the Drug Control Department is groping in the dark. The authorities cited the inadequate number of drug inspectors to monitor the activities as the primary reason behind the issue. Licences of 11 medical shops were suspended in the last 45 days in the Ernakulam range covering Ernakulam, Alappuzha and Idukki districts....
01:23 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Mumbai: India has put in place a $5.4 billion policy to provide free medicine to its people, a decision that could change the lives of hundreds of millions, but a ban on branded drugs stands to cut Big Pharma out of the windfall. From city hospitals to tiny rural clinics, India's public doctors will soon be able to prescribe free generic drugs to all comers, vastly expanding access to medicine...
07:58 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Mumbai: Film actors, son of former cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi, a fashion designer and DJs were among the 44 people who tested positive for drugs consumed at a high-profile rave party at a posh hotel in Juhu last month, police said on Saturday. Actors Apurva Agnihotri, Anshuman Jha, Parth Sharma, Amit Gaur, famous fashion designer Rocky S, cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi's son Angad Bedi, celebrities Rahul Dahia, Kartik Jobanputra, DJ...
07:21 AM, Jun 24, 2012
Mumbai: At least 44 out of the 46 people who were arrested from a rave party on May 20 in Mumbai during the IPL have tested positive for drugs. However, the medical reports of cricketers Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell, who attended that party, are still awaited. Ninety-two people were detained at the venue after the Mumbai police busted the party. Twenty-seven of the attendees have tested positive for cannabis,...
06:28 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Almost 44 of the 46 held after the Mumbai Police busted an alleged rave party at suburban Juhu's Oakwoods Hotel on the night of May 20 have tested positive for drugs, sources said on Friday. As many as 100 people, including IPL players, namely Wayne Parnell and Rahul Sharma, and 19 foreign nationals, were detained by the police after they busted the party. However, the test reports of...
08:48 PM, Jun 22, 2012
Mumbai: For the past few months, tyrannical cops have been inspiring fear and frustration among the population, as they lay siege on the citys once-flourishing nightlife, one unnecessary raid at a time. These busts " conducted to ostensibly bust drug and prostitution rackets " have so far yielded no concrete results, barring, of course, the harassment caused to unsuspecting guests and revellers. While the legitimacy of the cops concern remains...
10:43 AM, Jun 16, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after the Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma pointed fingers at foreign students while talking about the increasing drug supplies in the twin cities, many of them reacted strongly, going to the extent of terming his remarks 'racist'. Everybody would like to party once in a while and how could one in a respectable position be prejudiced against foreign students?, questioned Sheikh Ahmed (name changed) who hails from...
12:20 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: Millions of the world's poorest people could have easier access to life-saving drugs if India introduces an air ticket tax to help fund purchases of cheap medicines for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, a senior UN official said. UNITAID, a UN agency which negotiates for cheap medicines from pharmaceutical manufacturers to treat deadly diseases, is lobbying countries such as India to join its air ticket levy initiative which began...
01:41 AM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: A new study by UK-based medical journal Lancet has found that seven per cent of anti-malarial drugs tested in India are of poor quality and many are fake. The study goes on to say that 1 in every 3 anti-malarial drugs sold in southeast Asia are also fake. Researchers analysed data based on 1400 drug samples in five classes from seven Southeast Asian countries to reach to this...
10:11 AM, May 23, 2012
Ganguly went through a lean patch both as a batsman and a skipper with Pune Warriors this season. ...
11:00 PM, May 22, 2012
Mumbai: Two disc jockeys who played music at the rave party in suburban Juhu hotel were on Tuesday called to the police station for the second consecutive day for probe into the matter even as the investigators are trying to decode the language used in the invitation, police said. "DJ brothers Romeo and Deepesh Sharma of Designer Hippies were today called to the station for the second day and their...
03:01 PM, May 22, 2012
