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Brown sugar worth Rs 2.40 crore seized, 3 drug peddlers arrested by STF

The Special Task Force of Odisha Police Monday seized brown sugar worth Rs 2.40 crore and arrested three persons in this connection in Balasore district, an officer said. Acting on intelligence inputs, the STF team nabbed three drug peddlers during a raid at Jaleswar in Balasore district and seized 2.402 kg of brown sugar, the officer said. A case has been registered against the three peddlers under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and further investigation is underway. As part of its special drive against narcotic drugs, STF has seized over 38 kg brown sugar and more than 84.28 quintals of ganja since 2020. Over a hundred drug dealers have been arrested in this connection during the period, an official press release said.

Prescription drugs, controlled chemicals fuel illicit drug trade in India

India ranks among countries reporting opioid seizures, and concerns are rising over prescription drugs and their ingredients being increasingly diverted towards recreational use and illicit trade

AI predicts the shape of molecules, in a boon for medicine and drug design

DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans

Illicit drugs business in Assam is worth Rs 5,000 cr annually: CM

Highlighting that trade in illegal drugs in Assam is worth about Rs 5,000 crore annually, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Sunday urged the police to be unrelenting in their war on drugs

Vijayan requests PM to waive tax on imported life-saving drug for child

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan urged the Centre to waive GST and customs duty on a life-saving drug to be imported from the US for the treatment of a child suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy

NPPA allows 50% price hike for ibuprofen, ranitidine, carbamazepine

These are scheduled drugs (or ones that are under price control) and low priced

WHO calls for price cut on drug for Covid-linked black fungus disease

This comes amid a sharp rise in cases of black fungus infections among Covid-19 patients in India and Nepal

61,000 more vials of Amphotericin B allocated to states/UTs: Centre

The drug is used to treat black fungus

Additional 5,240 vials of Amphotericin B allocated to Karnataka

Amphotericin B is used in the treatment of black fungus

Researchers explore microbial ecosystem in search of drugs for SARS-CoV-2

Researchers from Yonsei University in South Korea have found that certain commensal bacteria that reside in the human intestine produce compounds that inhibit SARS-CoV-2

Have sufficient Amphotericin B stock for treating Black Fungus cases: Govt

Amphotericin B drug is used for the treatment of Mucormycosis, commonly known as Black Fungus.

Venus Remedies wins legal battle against French firm for paracetamol patent

The Indian drug firm had initiated the legal battle in order to remove any patent hurdle in manufacturing of intravenous paracetamol solution in the country.

Pfizer's arthritis drug can cut death risk in patients with severe Covid

The efficacy of the drug was tested on 289 patients hospitalised with severe Covid across 15 locations in Brazil.

Govt takes steps to enhance availability of drug Amphotericin B

The drug is used in the treatment of Mucormycosis (black fungus)

Black fungus: 106,300 vials of Amphotericin-B allocated to states, UTs

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers DV Sadananda Gowda on Monday said that 1,06,300 vials of black fungus drugs Amphotericin B have been allocated to states, union territories and to the Central Institutions."Ensuring significant availability of Liposomal #Amphotericin B, additional 106300 vials of the drug have been allocated across all the States/UTs and Central Institutions today," Sadananda Gowda said in a tweet.The Minister said that a total of 53,000 vials of Conventional Amphotericin B have also been allocated to all the states, UTs and Central Institutions today."A total of 53,000 vials of Conventional #Amphotericin B have also been allocated to all the States/UTs & Central Institutions today. The allocation of #ConventionalAmphotericin B is being made to ensure its smooth supply and timely treatment of patients," he said in another tweet.He further said that additional 9,400 vials of Liposomal Amphotericin B and 4,680 vials of Conventional Amphotericin B have ..

Covid-19 drugs portfolio boost domestic sales of companies in FY21

Chronic therapy areas like cardiac and anti-diabetic have maintained their growth rates during FY21 despite a washout in the first quarter

Drug firm Lupin gets US FDA approval to market generic HIV drug

The product will be manufactured at the company's facility in Nagpur

US-India Counter narcotics Working Group discuss on threat of illicit drugs

The CNWG convened the second virtual meeting and exchanged views to reduce the threat of illicit drugs

West Bengal: Police arrest drug peddler with brown sugar in Siliguri

West Bengal's Siliguri Police arrested a drug peddler with 257 grams of Brown Sugar from the city's Champasari area on Sunday

Drugmaker Zydus Cadila's fourth quarter net profit up 73% at Rs 679 crore

Total income from operations of Rs 3,847 crore was up by 3 per cent from Rs 3,752 crore in Q4 FY20.