Ready to face trial in Ephedrine scam: Pak PM's son

Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa has said he is ready to face trial in a case of alleged irregularities in the import of a large amount of the controlled drug Ephedrine. Ali......

Ephedrine case: Pak SC issues notice to Gilani's son

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa and a top bureaucrat in a case relating to alleged irregularities in the import of a large......

'Heroin trafficking through Indo-Pak increasing'

Indian law-enforcement agencies are seizing an ever-increasing quantity of heroin from the Indo-Pak border indicating a rise in trafficking of contraband from its neighbouring nations through the......

Pak boat with drugs worth Rs 480 crore held off Gujarat coast

In a sea-air coordinated operation, narcotics worth Rs 480 crore were seized from a Pakistani boat with six crew in the Arabian Sea near Porbandar by a multi-agency team led by the Indian Coast......

Drug makers may fall under NDPS Act

In a reversal of its two-year-old decision to avoid from the purview of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, the finance ministry, which administers the Act, has once......

India battles big pharma over cough syrup abuse, reducing supplies

Cipla stopped making the product last year; Abbott Laboratories and Pfizer have had to reduce batch sizes by up to half. Indian regulators are privately pressuring major drug firms to better police......

Black money: SIT brings new intel agency on board

To speed up its probe into cases of illegal funds stashed abroad, the SIT on black money has roped in one more economic intelligence agency -- CEIB -- as the main ‘coordinating body’......

Record Rs 32,000 Crore Seized in Tax Raids

Since arraignment under money laundering is a tougher offence, the CBDT hopes it will also overcome its dismal score sheet to prove satisfactorily to the courts that these cases were genuine ones......