The Lieutenant Governor was addressing a massive public rally at Sports Stadium Kathua, where he launched a people's movement against narcotics under the Drug Free Jammu Kashmir campaign.
India is about to test a radical idea: can a country known as the world’s pharmacy also become its slimming clinic? The imminent arrival of low-cost versions of semaglutide ~ marketed globally as Wegovy and Ozempic by Novo Nordisk ~ could turn a once-exclusive therapy into a mass-consumption drug.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Kolkata zonal unit, in its fight against illegal drug trafficking conducted a multi-pronged operation on 12 September.
The Orissa High Court has directed the doctors of Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH), State’s premiere government-run healthcare institute at Cuttack city, to prescribe generic medicines in hospital writing pads if free drugs are not available in Niramaya free distribution counters.
With this, the total number of drug smugglers arrested in just 127 days has reached 20,784.
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.
