Indian cough syrup: mystery middleman may be new clue
An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a…
Cost of pollution?
OVER the last seven months or so, our daughter has been unwell a number of times. The usual symptoms have been high fever and a cough. A couple of times…
Devastating effects of drug abuse
June 26 marks the International Day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking. The theme for 2023 is “People first: stop stigma and discrimination, strengthen prevention”. According to the United Nations…
Devastating effects of drug abuse
June 26 marks the International Day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking. The theme for 2023 is “People first: stop stigma and discrimination, strengthen prevention”. According to the United Nations…
Trade deadlines with India
An important deadline has just been missed. Pakistan had committed to itself that from Jan 1 onwards, it would remove the socalled `negative list` under which it trades with India,…
Loss of a lesser life
Athese are the days when the mist envelopes the mind and the body has a more than usual craving for relief. That’s the time around Christmas every year when you fear that something is about to give. And routinely it does happen.
The fictions we create
WE have all seen the filmstrip, a bed strewn with pillows, a shelf of cough syrups, a small kerosene stove and of course the bloody floor … the vestige of…
