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.
Two wanted criminals, who were carrying a reward of Rs 50,000 on their head, were held in Delhi's Rohini along with 1.3 kg heroin valued at Rs 2 crore.
Kulwinder, on the instruction of Rajesh Kumar, had brought two consignments of 10 kg and 20 kg heroin from Srinagar in Jan, besides 1 kg of heroin from Delhi.
he police have also recovered 5.53 kilogram (kg) heroin, 21.9 kg opium, 21.5 kg ganja, six quintals of poppy husk and 1.46 lakh tablets, capsules, injections and vials of Pharma opioids.
The police have registered a total of 1730 first information reports (FIRs) in the span of which 145 are related to commercial quantity.
The arrested drug peddler- Sheikh Jamsed- had acquired assets from the proceeds of narcotics trade. Seized properties included a three storied building, residential plots.
