Steffen Kjaersgaard, a team-mate of Lance Armstrong's at US Postal from 2000-03, will not face sanctions, despite admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs, Norwegian anti-doping authorities said on Monday. The Norwegian admitted doping between 1998 and 2003 at a news conference last October, one day after the International Cycling Union (UCI) confirmed it would not appeal against the stripping of Armstrong's seven Tour de France titles. However, Anti-Doping Norway said in...
06:55 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: South African cricket player Wayne Parnell who was a wanted accused to be a part of a 'rave party' during the last Indian Premier League, surrendered before a local court. Parnell was later granted bail for Rs 10,000. He had earlier been shown as a wanted accused in the chargesheet of the case. Last month, the Special NDPS court had given a copy of the chargesheet filed in the...
04:45 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Austin: Lance Armstrong has asked a Texas court to dismiss a lawsuit by a Dallas promotions company seeking repayment of more than $12 million in bonuses paid for winning the Tour de France. SCA Promotions sued Armstrong and his manager Bill Stapleton in state district court in Dallas in February, claiming Armstrong committed fraud by using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour seven times. SCA paid Armstrong's team management company...
05:28 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Beijing Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh, allegedly involved in a drug scandal, will not be considered for selection for two upcoming international events for missing the trials. The beleaguered Indian boxer, who has been accused by the Punjab Police of consuming heroin, missed the two-day boxing trials in Patiala and will not be selected in the squad for the events in Cyprus and Cuba which serve as build-up...
02:34 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Chandigarh: India's Olympic medallist Vijender Singh has not shown up for the boxing trial camp in Patiala. Participation in the boxing camp is necessary for the boxer's selection. Boxing Federation Vice President Nivaran Mukherjee said, "Vijender hasn't come for the trials. If he doesn't attend the camp tomorrow he will fail to qualify or the next tournament." On Friday, the Punjab Police had said that the boxer has not been...
12:26 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Chandigarh: India's Olympic medallist Vijender Singh has not shown up for the boxing trial camp in Patiala. Participation in the boxing camp is necessary for the boxer's selection. Boxing Federation Vice President Nivaran Mukherjee said, "Vijender hasn't come for the trials. If he doesn't attend the camp tomorrow he will fail to qualify or the next tournament." On Friday, the Punjab Police had said that the boxer has not been...
10:14 AM, Apr 06, 2013
New York: Lance Armstrong's plan to return to athletic competition was stopped by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) as he was pulled out of a swimming event. Armstrong, who is serving a lifetime ban from Olympic sports because of his doping violations, will not compete in the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships at the University of Texas this weekend after FINA raised objections on Thursday, reports Xinhua. The 41-year-old...
04:50 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New York: Indian-American hotelier Vikram Chatwal, arrested earlier this week at a Florida airport for allegedly carrying drugs, has been released on bond. According to the TMZ website, the city-based millionaire hotel owner was arrested on April 2 at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials found drugs hidden in Chatwal's luggage as he was about to board the flight. A spokeswoman at the Broward Sheriff's...
09:20 AM, Apr 05, 2013
New York: Indian-American hotelier Vikram Chatwal has been arrested earlier this week at an airport in Florida for allegedly carrying a large stash of drugs including cocaine and heroine, a celebrity website reported. According to the TMZ website, the multi-millionaire hotel owner was arrested on April 2 at the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials found an "arsenal of drugs", including cocaine, weed, heroin and various...
07:30 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Sports Minister Jitendra Singh told CNN-IBN that WADA rules say that Vijender can be checked for heroin. ...
11:19 AM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: Mounting pressure on India's Olympic champion Vijender Singh, Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that the entire episode is disappointing for the youngsters and all the sportspersons. Singh also said that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) allows all drug tests and that Vijender can be checked for heroin as well. Unhappy with the tests carried out by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), the police said that vital...
10:59 AM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: All antibiotics, tuberculosis drugs and other habit-forming medicines may soon have a label, warning users against over the counter medication, according to the latest draft notification by the Health Ministry. According to Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), India records 70 thousand new multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases every year. India has already switched to using the second line drug Artemisinin for Malaria widely and nearly 5 per cent...
08:50 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Chandigarh: The rift between the Punjab Police and the Sports Ministry over India's Olympic champion Vijender Singh is out in the open now. Unhappy with the tests carried out by NADA, the police said that vital hair follicle test used to detect heroin use has been left out. Instead blood and urine tests have been conducted which hold good only for a couple of days after the consumption of drugs....
07:45 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Prathiba M Singh, advocate for Ranbaxy and Cipla, fought the Glivec patent case against Novartis. She joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the legal and moral compulsions behind this courtroom battle and the significance of the Supreme Court's decision for Indian pharma firms and the people of the country. ...
06:33 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Vijender has been on leave since the first week of March and has not attended the camp for a day. ...
02:48 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The US industry on Wednesday said it is reviewing the order of the Supreme Court early this week that denied patent on Glivec, a cancer medication produced by Swiss drug maker Novartis, as Corporate America expressed dismay at the court verdict. ...
01:00 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Expressing unease over the Supreme Court ruling against pharmaceutical giant Novartis denying the company a patent on its cancer drug, a major business advocacy group on Tuesday said that this would impact innovation and investment climate in India at a time when the country needs foreign direct investment the most. ...
10:43 AM, Apr 03, 2013
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court of India dismissed a plea by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Monday for a patent on its cancer drug Glivec, paving way for more affordable life saving drug. ...
11:31 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Lawyer Mukul Khanna said that a hair test on Olympian boxer Vijender Singh will be inconclusive as it won't reveal the quantity of the drug consumed. ...
03:57 PM, Apr 02, 2013
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court of India dismissed a plea by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Monday for a patent on its cancer drug Glivec, paving way for more affordable life saving drug. Novartis had sought to overturn a clause in Indian Patents Law that restricts patent protection for newer forms of existing molecules, and the ruling could set a precedent for how other similar patent claims...
11:05 AM, Apr 01, 2013
