Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrests former minister Sunder Sham Arora for offering bribe

Chandigarh October 16 The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested former state Industries Minister Sunder Sham Arora for allegedly offering a bribe of Rs 50 lakh to an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of the Bureau for influencing a case, officials said. The Vigilance Bureau (VB) is learnt to have recovered the…

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Spurious Drugs: Maiden Pharma ‘forged’ raw material test reports

Bhartesh Singh Thakur Chandigarh, October 15 Sonepat-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited, under the scanner for the death of around 70 Gambian infants due to the “consumption” of the company’s four cough syrups, appears to have “forged” test reports of raw materials such as propylene glycol, documents accessed by The Tribune…

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Supreme Court suspends Bombay High Court order acquitting Delhi University ex-prof in Maoist links case

New Delhi, October 15The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay High Court order acquitting former Delhi University (DU) professor GN Saibaba and others in a Maoist links case, saying the merits of the case was not considered while granting them the relief.The top court rejected Saibaba’s request to order…

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Kashmiri Pandit killed by militants in Shopian

Srinagar, October 15A Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead allegedly by militants in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said.Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Central Kashmir) Sujit Kumar said initial investigation suggested that militants of a local oufit were behind the attack. Puran Krishan Bhat was attacked near his…

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Hattee ST status or 370, BJP govt made it possible: Amit Shah

Sataun (Paonta Sahib), October 15 Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said be it according the Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the Hattee community of the trans-Giri region in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, abrogation of Article 370 or building the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Narendra Modi government had made…

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Spurious Drugs: Data shared not sufficient to reveal cause of illness, India writes to World Health Organisation

Aditi TandonNew Delhi, October 15India on Saturday asked the World Health Organisation (WHO) for a range of information on the tragic death of 66 Gambian children allegedly due to contaminated cough syrups manufactured by a Sonepat firm, and said the clinical data shared so far by the world body was…

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