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.
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.
On interrogation, the accused persons revealed that they procured the banned substances from Balasore district to smuggle it in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Puri.
