
DCA raid | Two arrested for selling Remdesivir in black market
The Hindu
Further investigations are on.
The Drugs Control Administration (DCA) officials caught two persons on the charge of black-marketing Remdesivir injections, in a decoy operation, at MVP Colony in Visakhapatnam, on Friday evening. Posing as a patient’s relative in need of Remdesivir injections, drugs Inspector (Vigilance) D. Suneeta, made a call to a phone number obtained from another patient’s relative. Suresh, who answered the call, gave the number of Rakesh. When the drugs inspector contacted Rakesh over the phone, he told he has six Remdesivir injections and the price was ₹35,000 per vial (₹2,10,000 for six vials).
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











