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TopicCough syrup deaths

Topic: cough syrup deaths

Indians are obsessed with cough syrups. Are they really needed?

Parents in rural areas insist on medicine for every cough, and doctors are pressured by both expectations and pharmaceutical marketing and end up obliging.

Cough syrup deaths: ED searches 7 Chennai premises, including homes of TN drug control officials

Enforcement Directorate investigating Sresan Pharmaceuticals, its key employees, and Tamil Nadu drug control officials after deaths of 21 children in Madhya Pradesh.

Coldrif deaths: ED raids Sreesan Pharma sites, houses of TN Drug Control officials in Chennai

The agency aims to trace financial transactions and possible proceeds of crime linked to the manufacture and sale of the adulterated medicine that caused the deaths of several children.

ThePrint photos of the week: Cough syrup horror, Bihar polls schedule & BJP’s protests against TMC

In PhotosOfTheWeek we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

Chhindwara’s Coldrif deaths show India’s dangerous irony—pharmacy of the world, failing at home

India’s pharmaceutical sector is valued at $50 billion. It has built its reputation on affordability and accessibility. The deaths in Chhindwara tell a different story.

A cough syrup’s trail of death, Kanchipuram to Chhindwara. ‘Son’s life cost Rs 30’

A chain of failures from a Tamil Nadu factory to clinics in Chhindwara killed 24 children. Coldrif tragedy exposes collapsed manufacturing standards and regulatory negligence.

After MP cough syrup deaths, Maharashtra to test liquid medications stocked by hospitals, vendors

Maharashtra FDA has directed all joint commissioners & drug inspectors to submit details of manufacturers in their jurisdictions & collect oral formulation samples.

Maharashtra FDA raids Pune cough syrup unit after child deaths in MP, seizes stock worth Rs 13 lakh

Acting on directives of the state and Center, FDA's Pune division has launched a large-scale crackdown on manufacturers and retailers of faulty cough syrups.

SC to hear PIL on drug safety reforms after child deaths in MP, Rajasthan from toxic syrups

The bench including CJI B R Gavai, will hear the plea on 10 oct, seeking CBI takeover of all FIRs and probes into child deaths from toxic cough syrups across states.

Coldrif syrup deaths: MP Police arrest pharma company owner S Ranganathan

Due to consumption of the dangerously adulterated medicine, 20 children in Madhya Pradesh had died by Wednesday.

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Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.