India Cough Syrup

The Madhya Pradesh police have seized 72,000 bottles of a banned cough syrup containing codeine and arrested a man and his son, an official said on Sunday.

Uzbekistan on Monday handed out sentences to 21 people linked to the deaths of 68 children who consumed a contaminated cough syrup produced in India.

India will take "appropriate action" after completing an investigation into a complaint that a drug regulator helped switch samples of cough syrup linked to the death of children in Gambia in return for a bribe, two officials said on Wednesday.

Goa police found empty bottles of a cough syrup in a room where the CEO of a start-up allegedly killed her four-year-old son, indicating she might have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him and that it was pre-planned murder.

Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of children in Gambia, on Saturday denied it had tampered with test samples or

The drugs regulator in India has banned the use of an anti-cold drug combination in children aged below four and ordered that drugs should be labelled accordingly, in the wake of the deaths of at least 141 children globally linked to cough syrups.

At least three persons, including two grocers, have been arrested, days after five persons died due to suspected consumption of an Ayurvedic syrup containing methanol sold by their shop in Gujarat's Kheda district, police said on Saturday.'

Patna Customs and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) destroyed over 4,589 kg of narcotics, 34,325 tablets/capsules, and 25,975 bottles of cough syrup worth Rs 9.54 crore here on Friday, officials said.

The Border Security Force (BSF), Guwahati Frontier with a team of Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) recovered illegal arms, prohibited Yaba tablets, cough syrup and Rs 43.76 lakh cash, an official statement said.

Distributors of a contaminated Indian cough syrup that killed 65 children in Uzbekistan paid local officials a bribe of $33,000 to skip mandatory testing, Uzbek state prosecutors

An Indian pharmaceutical company, which has come under the World Health Organisation scanner over the levels of two compounds in its cough syrup, claimed today that the chemicals were within permissible limits.

The World Health Organization on Monday flagged a batch of contaminated common cold syrup it found in Iraq that was manufactured by an Indian company. The United Nations agency in its

Cough syrup from a Haryana-based firm that allegedly caused deaths of children in Gambia, has passed all tests, sources in Union Health Ministry told NDTV today.

Gambia's government is "far advanced" in exploring avenues for potential legal action against Atlantic Pharmaceuticals and Maiden Pharmaceuticals over toxic cough syrups that were imported from India, it said on Friday.

A new drugs bill will be taken up for consideration next week on rules for importing, manufacturing and selling medicines in India, according to a parliamentary notice on Thursday.

The Madhya Pradesh police have seized 72,000 bottles of a banned cough syrup containing codeine and arrested a man and his son, an official said on Sunday.

Uzbekistan on Monday handed out sentences to 21 people linked to the deaths of 68 children who consumed a contaminated cough syrup produced in India.

India will take "appropriate action" after completing an investigation into a complaint that a drug regulator helped switch samples of cough syrup linked to the death of children in Gambia in return for a bribe, two officials said on Wednesday.

Goa police found empty bottles of a cough syrup in a room where the CEO of a start-up allegedly killed her four-year-old son, indicating she might have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him and that it was pre-planned murder.

Maiden Pharmaceuticals, whose cough syrups have been linked to the deaths of children in Gambia, on Saturday denied it had tampered with test samples or

The drugs regulator in India has banned the use of an anti-cold drug combination in children aged below four and ordered that drugs should be labelled accordingly, in the wake of the deaths of at least 141 children globally linked to cough syrups.

At least three persons, including two grocers, have been arrested, days after five persons died due to suspected consumption of an Ayurvedic syrup containing methanol sold by their shop in Gujarat's Kheda district, police said on Saturday.'

Patna Customs and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) destroyed over 4,589 kg of narcotics, 34,325 tablets/capsules, and 25,975 bottles of cough syrup worth Rs 9.54 crore here on Friday, officials said.

The Border Security Force (BSF), Guwahati Frontier with a team of Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) recovered illegal arms, prohibited Yaba tablets, cough syrup and Rs 43.76 lakh cash, an official statement said.

Distributors of a contaminated Indian cough syrup that killed 65 children in Uzbekistan paid local officials a bribe of $33,000 to skip mandatory testing, Uzbek state prosecutors

An Indian pharmaceutical company, which has come under the World Health Organisation scanner over the levels of two compounds in its cough syrup, claimed today that the chemicals were within permissible limits.

The World Health Organization on Monday flagged a batch of contaminated common cold syrup it found in Iraq that was manufactured by an Indian company. The United Nations agency in its

Cough syrup from a Haryana-based firm that allegedly caused deaths of children in Gambia, has passed all tests, sources in Union Health Ministry told NDTV today.

Gambia's government is "far advanced" in exploring avenues for potential legal action against Atlantic Pharmaceuticals and Maiden Pharmaceuticals over toxic cough syrups that were imported from India, it said on Friday.

A new drugs bill will be taken up for consideration next week on rules for importing, manufacturing and selling medicines in India, according to a parliamentary notice on Thursday.