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.
The victims include the suspect's wife Paramjit Kaur, 28, her son and daughter aged five and seven, respectively, his wife’s parents, Surjan Singh, 58, and Joginder Bai, 54.
The drug peddlers possessing 1.060 kilograms of brown sugar were nabbed near Balasore railway station area on Monday.
Led by Dr. Sudhir Chandra Sarangi, Additional Professor, Department of Pharmacology AIIMS, the team reached this conclusion following a study spanning three years.
The government, though, estimates the number of deaths at “only” 6,000 who died in the course of over 200,000 anti-illegal drug operations as of May this year.
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.
