BSF braves unfavourable terrain, weather to meet challenges in border areas of South BengalThe BSF is actively preventing smuggling and illegal activities along the India-Bangladesh border. In 2023, significant seizures of gold an...
09 Jan, 2025, 07.15 PM IST
Security agencies fear 'crazy' yaba may find ground in IndiaA dossier prepared by a central security organisation notes that while India at present is a "transit" territory for the circular-shaped an...
15 Dec, 2020, 04.05 PM IST
CBIC destroyed narcotics and psychotropic drugs worth Rs 79 crore on Jan 24The field offices of Bhopal, Patna, Lucknow, Chennai, Pune, Shillong, Delhi and Mumbai, collectively destroyed 11,326 kgs of cannabis, 251 ...
11 Feb, 2020, 07.17 PM IST
Delhi High Court verdict on combination drugs ban likely todayEndlaw is expected to give his verdict even as the government has submitted a petition to transfer all FDC cases across the country to the ...
01 Dec, 2016, 07.00 AM IST
Many prohibited drugs available in markets: Ananth KumarKumar said in Lok Sabha that these 439 drugs, including 344 fixed dose combinations, were banned after examination of the samples of the me...
26 Jul, 2016, 02.22 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
Delhi High Court grants interim stay on ban of Abbott’s PhensedylAbbott got a stay on five products in all, including codeine-based formulations and another for management of epilepsy.
16 Mar, 2016, 05.34 AM IST
More than 500 drugs may face banHealth ministry, which banned 344 fixed-dose combinations including cough syrups like Phensedyl, Corex and Benadryl, is evaluating a list o...
15 Mar, 2016, 11.39 AM IST
Shares of Pfizer plunge on the BSE following Corex banHowever, Abbott India that sells another popular cough syrup Phensedyl, also in the list of banned drugs, closed marginally higher.
15 Mar, 2016, 02.29 AM IST
Pfizer, Abbott stop sale of cough syrups in India post banCorex is a combination of chlopheniramine maleate and codeine syrup - one of 344 drug combinations India banned over the weekend.
14 Mar, 2016, 03.32 PM IST
CID files case against Abbott in cough syrup smuggling caseCID Telangana has registered case against Abbott Health Care Pvt Ltd and their associates in alleged case of smuggling cough syrup 'Phensed...
10 Jun, 2015, 08.19 PM IST
- Drug retail sales up 18% in 2010 as cos take rural roads
Sales in the domestic drug retail market rose a healthy 18.36% during 2010, making India an attractive destination for foreign players.
01 Jan, 2011, 05.18 AM IST
- Drug market grows 20% in H1; foreign firms tighten hold
A series of buyouts by foreign heavy weights, including Ranbaxy and Piramal Healthcare has resulted in foreign MNCs taking three slots amon...
09 Aug, 2010, 03.46 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
- Piramal's cough syrup top-selling drug in June
Piramal Healthcare’s cough syrup Phensedyl has toppled Swiss drug major Novartis’s pain killer brand Voveran to emerge as the country’s lar...
29 Jul, 2008, 12.45 AM IST
- Pfizer, NPIL abused by drug addicts
Pfizer's Corex and Nicholas Piramal's Phensedyl give a 'kick' to drug addicts, say experts.
18 Jul, 2007, 05.42 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