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WHO lists 10 threats to global health in 2019
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): Taking to its website, the World Health Organization (WHO) has written that the world is facing multiple health challenges. These include outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesit
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Eradicate drug abuse, terrorism, militancy, corruption: Sheikh Hasina to H
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka (Bangladesh) Jan 20 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday asked the country's Home Ministry to work towards eradicating drug abuse, terrorism, militancy and the 'black disease' of corruption spread by the military dictators who ruled the country in the past.
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Hyderabad: 5 drug smugglers held, 50 kg marijuana seized
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan 19 (ANI): In a major breakthrough, the Prohibition and Excise Department on Saturday busted inter-state marijuana trade and held five people, including two women, in connection with the case.
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Competition Commission of India imposes penalty on Chemists and Druggists
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Baroda (Gujarat) [India], Jan 16 (ANI): The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has found the Chemists and Druggists Association of Baroda (CDAB) to be in contravention of the provisions of the Competition Act, 2002.
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China 'not worried' about others' reactions on death penalty of Canadian d
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Jan 16 (ANI): China on Wednesday stated that it was 'absolutely not worried' about foreign countries' reactions on the announcement of the death penalty for the Canadian man convicted under drug trafficking charges on January 14.
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Study finds stroke drug could prevent Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 16 (ANI): Researchers have found that a drug which could treat stroke may also prevent Alzheimer's disease.
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Canada requests clemency for citizen sentenced to death in China
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], Jan 16 (ANI): Canada has officially asked China to spare its citizen, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg's life after he was handed a death penalty in a drug trafficking case.
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El Chapo aide claims Mexico's ex-Prez accepted $100 million bribe
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Brooklyn [USA], Jan 16 (ANI): A former close aide to drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has testified that Mexico's ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto had once accepted a bribe to the tune of USD 100 million from the suspected drug lord in October 2012.
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China announces death sentence for Canadian drug trafficker amid Huawei ro
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Jan 14 (ANI): A Chinese court here on Monday announced death sentence for a Canadian man who was earlier convicted under charges of drug trafficking and had already served 15 years of imprisonment.
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Mumbai: 2 foreign drug peddlers nabbed possessing over 1kg cocaine
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Andheri West (Mumbai) [India], Jan 13 (ANI): Anti Narcotics Cell of Mumbai on Saturday arrested two foreign nationals and seized 1.005 kilograms of cocaine worth Rs. 6,03,00,000 from their possession.
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1400 Yaba drug tablets seized from Rohingyas
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan 12 (ANI): 1400 tablets of banned Yaba Drugs have been seized from the alleged possession of two Rohingyas, police said on Friday.
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'Social media addicts similar to substance abusers'
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 10 (ANI): A recent research has found a connection between excessive social media users and drug addicts.
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