India may soon announce more relief for exporters hit by West Asia crisisIndia's government is introducing measures to support exporters facing disruptions from the West Asia crisis. Freight subsidies are being c...
02 Apr, 2026, 08.04 PM IST
India flags testing lapses at pharma firms after cough syrups deathsIndia's drug regulator revealed serious lapses in pharmaceutical firms failing to test medicinal ingredients, following the deaths of 17 ch...
08 Oct, 2025, 12.59 PM IST
Cough syrup death cases: PIL in SC seeks immediate ban on medicine and probeA Supreme Court petition demands the immediate recall and ban of Coldrif cough syrup, manufactured by Sresan Pharma, following the deaths o...
07 Oct, 2025, 08.28 PM IST
Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how US aid cuts curtail malaria fightU.S. foreign aid cuts to the President's Malaria Initiative have led to a tragic surge in malaria deaths in northern Cameroon, reversing ye...
02 Oct, 2025, 12.57 PM IST
Indian regulator says 36% of inspected drug-making units had to be shutIndia's drug regulator has ordered the closure of over 36% of its 400 drug manufacturing units since last year due to concerns over sub-sta...
27 Jun, 2024, 08.17 PM IST
Export of drugs meant only for Indian market under DCGI lensThe DCGI has asked all port offices to ensure that products meant for the "India market only" are not exported after receiving complaints a...
24 Jan, 2024, 11.45 PM IST
India finds quality issues with cough syrup linked to Cameroon deathsTests of a cough syrup linked to deaths in Cameroon have revealed quality issues in at least one of five samples taken by Indian authoritie...
04 Dec, 2023, 03.37 PM IST
India reveals more toxic syrups months after poisoning deathsIndian drug regulator has discovered that cough syrup and anti-allergy syrup manufactured by Norris Medicines are toxic, containing contami...
04 Oct, 2023, 07.30 PM IST
India finds lapses at cough syrup maker linked to Cameroon deathsIndia has found violations related to manufacturing and laboratory practices at drugmaker Riemann Labs, whose cough syrup was linked to chi...
02 Aug, 2023, 12.00 PM IST
India orders Riemann Labs, linked to cough syrup deaths in Cameroon, to stop manufacturingLast month, the World Health Organization said a batch of cough and cold syrup sold in Cameroon under the brand name Naturcold contained ex...
01 Aug, 2023, 03.27 PM IST
WHO seeks help from India in latest toxic syrup caseThe World Health Organization (WHO) has asked the Indian authorities for help in establishing the origins of a contaminated cough syrup tha...
20 Jul, 2023, 08.32 PM IST
Cough syrup suspected of killing 12 kids in Cameroon might be Made in IndiaCameroonian officials suspect a cough syrup is the cause of a dozen children’s deaths and it appears to have been manufactured in India. An...
19 Jun, 2023, 06.54 PM IST
WHO says toxic syrup risk 'ongoing', more countries hitThere is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The U.N. agency has already named ...
16 Jun, 2023, 04.54 PM IST
Cameroon bus accident kills at least 37Nineteen other passengers were injured on the bus, which was found in a ravine, Ndikinimeki police commissioner Moantsouog Mempou Paulin to...
27 Dec, 2020, 07.59 PM IST
Rare gorillas in Nigeria captured on camera with babiesConservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria's Mbe mountains, pr...
08 Jul, 2020, 02.35 PM IST
Legendary saxophonist, Afro-jazz star, Manu Dibango, dies after contracting coronavirusA message on his official FB page confirmed that his death had come after he contracted COVID-19.
24 Mar, 2020, 05.07 PM IST
41 killed in Lake Chad blasts blamed on Boko Haram: governmentForty-one people were killed in triple explosions in a Chadian city on the shores of Lake Chad, blamed on the Nigerian jihadist group Boko ...
11 Oct, 2015, 05.53 PM IST