Mumbai: The Mumbai Police busted an alleged rave party at a hotel in Juhu on Sunday night. At least 100 people including 38 women, mostly foreign nationals, were detained. The police have also arrested the party organiser, Vishesh Vijay Handa, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Two international cricketers, Rahul Sharma of India and Wayne Parnell of South Africa, who play in the IPL for Pune Warriors...
07:32 AM, May 21, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Sunday evening bust an alleged rave party at Oakwood Hotel in Juhu. The police claim to have recovered cocaine from the party. Over 80 people, including foreign nationals, have been detained and medical reports are awaited. The police sources said few IPL players may have been involved in the rave party as well. The police said only after the test reports they will be able to...
10:44 PM, May 20, 2012
Mumbai: A Parliamentary committee has uncovered a nexus between doctors, government bodies and pharmacy companies to approve new drugs without the mandatory clinical trials. The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the country's Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials - a shocking lapse, highlighted in this Parliamentary standing committee report. Drug expert CM Gulati said, "All of them are compromised. We've got the...
06:16 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The government announced an inquiry on Friday into the functioning of the main drug regulator, just days after a parliamentary report exposed dysfunction within the agency and serious irregularities in the drug approval process. The government said in a statement that it had appointed three experts to look at the scientific basis of approving new drugs without clinical trials and recommend ways of improving the procedures of the...
02:13 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Pointing to a collusive nexus between drug manufacturers, officials of Drugs Control Organisation and medical experts in granting approvals to new drugs, a Parliamentary Panel said drugs banned, discarded or withdrawn in developed countries are in circulation in India. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare also pointed to serious lapses and irregularities on the approvals of new drugs and pointed out that 33 such drugs...
01:23 AM, May 10, 2012
Washington: Adolf Hitler was apparently a coke head who farted uncontrollably, ingested some 28 drugs at a time and received injections of bull testicle extracts to bolster his libido. It's a whole other side to the Nazi dictator, whose poor health condition was revealed in medical documents that are now up for auction online at Alexander Historical Auctions of Stamford. Bidding for the documents - which include ten X-rays of...
09:34 AM, May 08, 2012
Mumbai: After the Indian government recently lifted a patent license, Indian pharma major, Cipla, has announced a massive reduction of up to 76 per cent in its cancer drug prices. Following the move, the price of Cipla's generic kidney cancer drug, Sorafenib, will be available at Rs 6,840 a month from the earlier Rs 27,950. The lung cancer drug Gestinib price has been cut down by 60 per cent to...
07:51 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding plans to offer cut-price versions of two blockbuster cancer drugs for the Indian market soon, a company spokesman said on Friday, days after the government moved to slash the price of another cancer treatment. India stripped German group Bayer of exclusive rights to Nexavar earlier this month and licenced a local company to produce a cheap, generic version, on the grounds that poor Indians could...
02:39 AM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: The city police has been asked by a Delhi court to verify if Harish Sharma, a close aide of slain BJP leader Pramod Mahajan and co-accused in the drug abuse-cum-peddling case involving Rahul Mahajan, has died. Additional Sessions Judge Lal Singh issued notice to the police seeking the reply of the investigating officer (IO) of the case to Sharma's counsel plea that his client died on February 10...
11:39 AM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh saw the maximum amount of cash being seized during restrictions imposed in the run up to the assembly elections in five states, while Punjab topped the seizures for drugs and illicit liquor. Rs 37.46 crore in cash was seized in Uttar Pradesh during polls, accounting for 72 per cent of the cash seizures. Huge quantities of drugs were seized in border state of Punjab which included...
07:40 PM, Mar 05, 2012
The trial will not continue against the actor after he claimed to have been undergoing deaddiction from a government-recognised centre. However, the immunity will be withdrawn in case he is caught in a similar crime again. ...
12:59 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: A 36-year-old property dealer in west Delhi was arrested for murdering his wife, who was repeatedly urging him to give up his drugs habit, said police on Tuesday. Harpal Singh was arrested on Monday from his relative's residence in Nihal Vihar, a day after he allegedly hacked his wife Jaspreet Kaur to death in the beauty parlour she ran in the Rani Bagh area. During interrogation, Singh revealed...
03:21 AM, Feb 22, 2012
BANGALORE:Initiated six months back, the joint operation by the city police, various NGOs and stake holders - Operation Rakshane took off many children asking alms from the roads. However, a reality check conducted by Express revealed that there are still hundreds of underaged children on the streets, begging under the influence of various drugs - and their kingpins, the beggar mafia leaders in various areas have struck gold by the...
09:04 AM, Feb 21, 2012
On a day when television channels stayed focused on the fallout of the ongoing tussle between the Army Chief and the Government, hundreds of people ...
03:52 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: It wasn't just heart-shaped chocolates and bright red roses that saw a spurt in sales this Valentine's Day. A deadly drug prepared from cobra venom gave a new high at parties in the national capital and surrounding areas, anti-narcotics officials say. "The sale of drugs (like K-72 and K-76) which have cobra venom is increasing at rave parties and in discos. These drugs enhance sensation and boost energy...
03:55 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Los Angeles: Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston as the music industry's biggest names gathered for a Grammy Awards show that at times felt as much like a memorial as a celebration. Coroner's officials say they will not release any information on an autopsy performed Sunday at the request of police detectives investigating the singer's death. The singer was found in the bathtub of her room...
12:53 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: Three Karnataka ministers resigned on Wednesday after they were accused of watching a pornographic video during an Assembly session. Minister Laxman Savadi said he was watching a video clip of a rave party to prepare for a discussion in the Assembly. Raves typically feature music, colourful light shows and dancing. Origin of raves The exact origin of raves is disputed. Some say the wild Bohemian parties in the...
02:54 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: India on Monday introduced a comprehensive national policy to help curb trafficking in narcotic drugs. "The national policy released today, presents evidence of India's strong commitment and intent to rise to the challenges posed by the drug menace," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said after releasing the policy documents. "It also reflects the country's willingness to shoulder the responsibility which is cast upon it because of its strategic position,...
12:29 AM, Feb 07, 2012
On this episode we focus on people and organisations which made India a better place for all of us. ...
06:10 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Srinagar: The police in Jammu and Kashmir, mostly in the news for all the wrong reasons, are in the limelight this time. They have set up a drug de-addiction centre in the valley to help the youth. Faisal (name changed) says, "My friends gave me the pills... first, they gave me one tablet... I got addicted and then started to get used to drugs... When I tried to give up,...
09:34 AM, Feb 03, 2012
