Cough syrup case: Lavish Lucknow mansion of arrested ex-constable draws focus amid ED raidsA lavish Lucknow home belonging to a dismissed police constable, Alok Pratap Singh, has been raided by the Enforcement Directorate. Singh i...
14 Dec, 2025, 09.26 AM IST
Illegal cough syrup case: ED raids in multiple locations in various statesThe Enforcement Directorate is conducting raids across several states in a money laundering investigation. The probe targets an alleged ill...
12 Dec, 2025, 11.06 AM IST
Cough syrup smuggling: UP govt books 12 more pharmaceutical firmsWhen a team went to investigate these 12 firms, they were either found closed or there were other shops operating at the same addresses, po...
29 Nov, 2025, 09.15 AM IST
Illegal cough syrup trade: UP Police book 12 medical store ownersAn FIR has been filed against twelve medical store owners and two individuals in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. They are accused of running a larg...
23 Nov, 2025, 11.33 AM IST
Varanasi police seizes 93,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup worth Rs 2 croreDCP (Varuna Zone) Pramod Kumar said that acting on a tip-off, a police team conducted a raid at a warehouse in the Bhadwar locality and sei...
19 Nov, 2025, 10.40 PM IST
Under the scanner, yet generic cough syrups hit shelvesWorry is spreading regarding the multitude of cough syrup brands circulating in India, with alarming revelations of toxic diethylene glycol...
16 Oct, 2025, 06.11 AM IST
Cough syrup advisory: Check names of three banned toxic syrups and five harmful ingredients parents should watch out forIndia has declared three cough syrups toxic following the deaths of at least 17 children. Investigations revealed high levels of diethylene...
09 Oct, 2025, 02.54 PM IST
Pfizer withdraws Corex syrup, extends line to new productsAccording to Pfizer, with this formulation, all additional line extensions will be introduced with all due regulatory approvals in place.
29 Nov, 2016, 01.41 PM IST
Bihar to ban supply of medicinal drugs with alcohol contentBihar government is contemplating to restrict the supply of all medicinal drugs with have alcohol contents. In principal it has been decide...
16 Apr, 2016, 12.07 PM IST
40% doctors disagree with government's recent drug ban list: SurveyNearly 40 per cent of doctors disagreed with the government's move to ban 344 fixed dose combination drugs, a survey said.
18 Mar, 2016, 07.25 PM IST
FDA seizes around 15,000 bottles of Codeine syrupOn orders of FDA Commissioner Harshadeep Kamble, the FDA team kept a watch and carried out a test purchase through a fake customer.
27 Oct, 2015, 07.17 PM IST
Ban proposed on drugs having serious side effects"There are variations in each individual in conversions of codeine to morphine and each individual reacts differently," Prof K C Singhal.
28 Oct, 2014, 01.08 PM IST
FDA cracks down on wholesalers for illegal diversion of ‘Codeine’The seizure affects only the syrup that contains codeine phosphate, a narcotic substance commonly used in preparation of cough syrup.
20 Mar, 2013, 11.03 AM IST
- Piramal Healthcare rethinks plan to set up new drug unit
Piramal Healthcare is reviewing its plans to set up a new unit to make codeine, the basic chemical used to produce best-selling cough syrup...
25 Jan, 2010, 01.31 AM IST
- Dr Reddy's, Piramal Healthcare get rights to make codeine
Dr Reddy's and Piramal Healthcare have obtained approval from the government to manufacture codeine, a narcotic that is key raw material fo...
24 Aug, 2008, 10.50 AM IST
- Pfizer, Nicholas Piramal hit by codeine shortage
Hit by the shortage of raw material codeine, India’s highest selling drug (in value) Pfizer’s cough syrup Corex has slipped to the eighth s...
18 Aug, 2007, 04.45 AM IST
- Shrinking pie forces pharma to build brands
Indian pharma companies which paid little focus on building brands will soon have to do so.
16 Dec, 2006, 01.45 AM IST