A pharmaceutical company in the US and its Indian-origin chief have agreed to resolve allegations that they knowingly underpaid Medicaid rebates due for the company's drug Nitrofurantoin Oral Suspension (Nitro OS).
Under the National Filariasis Elimination Program, Mass Drug Administration rounds will commence in 27 out of 50 districts in Uttar Pradesh from August 10.
In view of the growing menace of drug trafficking in the Samba district of Jammu, the police have decided to constitute secret committees at village level to nab heroin peddlers.
A drug trafficker was shot in the leg while trying to flee from police custody in Karbi Anglong district, officials said on Thursday.
More than a dozen women belonging to Kashmir, Jammu and Punjab have been arrested by the police in the past few months while smuggling narcotics. The arrests were more in the Kashmir Valley.
The police arrested two operatives of the module and recovered 2.30 bore pistols along with ten live cartridges from their possession.
Manoj Sinha was presiding over the 5th UT level meeting of Narco Coordination Center (NCORD) attended by Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh and senior officers of police and J&K administration.
The fugitive drug peddler has been identified as Salim Ahmmed, a resident of a village in Imphal East district of Manipur.
The 26-years-old Army personnel, posted as Sepoy in Pathankot, was arrested along with his aide Paramjeet Singh alias Pamma of Village Mahalam in Fazilka.
The incident took place on October 24 this year, however, she filed a complaint with the police on December 16 night.
