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- Hundreds of Third World children
victims of pharma companies greed for profit.
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- An outbreak involving more than 30 small children
in India who died after taking
cough syrup contaminated with diethylene glycol is described
in the latest
issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization by senior
health officials
of the Indian government. Diethylene glycol is a highly
toxic solvent
used in motor vehicle anti-freeze.
An editorial
in the journal warns of a dangerous rise in the number of
substandard
medicines on the market, especially in developing countries.
It says that
worldwide during the last 15 years, several hundred patients,
many of them
children, have died from intoxication after using medicines
contaminated
by diethylene glycol. In
the Indian outbreak, 36 children under 6 years of age were admitted
to two
Delhi hospitals between April and June 1998 with symptoms of
unexplained
acute renal failure. Despite peritoneal dialysis and supportive
treatment, 33 of the children died.More
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New Delhi: The devastating
earthquake that is causing severe damage to valuable human life
and property in Gujarath and other parts of India might have
been caused by a covert nuclear explosion by India on the eve
of the 51st Republic Day celebrations
According to leading international
scientists, earthquakes and nuclear tests are two sides
of the same coin and a covert nuclear explosion could trigger
a powerful earthquake like the one which happened in Gujarath.
According to scientific sources there are strong reasons
to suspect that the earthquake is a contribution of an
underground nuclear test by the BJP government in
the dessert regions of Gujarath . Hardly ten days before
the earthquake the Indian government announced the successful
test firing of nuclear missile Agni II reportedly from a launch
station in Orissa. Read
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KERALAMONITOR
SPECIAL CRIME REPORT
Omani
Police officer helping criminal wanted by the Interpol.
The Lucknow
police on Monday nabbed an international criminal who was involved
in major financial
crimes in Muscat, Oman. Wanted by the police in Muscat
for large-scale embezzlement of funds from various wings of the
government of the Sultanate of Oman, the trickster
is wanted by the Interpol, senior superintendent of police B.B.Bakshi
told mediapersons. A
resident of Belgaum in Karnataka, the arrested man has been identified
as Riyaz Ahmed Sikandar Kitoor. He was running a computer training
centre named ”Bytek Computers” in Lucknow’s upmarket
Gomti Nagar neighborhood, Bakshi said. An official of the Royal
Oman police is also said to be involved. Kitoor is being held
in jail here pending a hearing on his extradition to Oman, Bakshi
said.
According
a dossier prepared by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),
”Kitoor did a course in secretarial practice from a government
institute in Belgaum in 1987, following which he took up a job
in Goa. Three years later, in 1990, he went off to Muscat to
join a big dealer in computer
peripherals,” the dossier says. The
dossier also highlights what is claimed to be Kitoor’s close
nexus with the Omani police chief, Col. Nasir Suleman Barkat
Alamki, as also his father, who until three years ago, the dossier
says, was the finance minister of Oman.
“The
two were conniving in issuing fake vouchers to get payments against
supplies that were made only on paper, thereby pocketing away
millions,” Bakshi said. Initially, he said, Kitoor had been
apprehended in Oman itself following the registration of a case
of forgery against him by the Oman Chamber of Commerce.
However,
while he was undergoing imprisonment in Oman, Colonel Alamki
came to his rescue and surreptitiously got him a passage to India,
where he arrived on September 22, 1997 and quietly began a new
life marrying a school teacher., Bakshi said.
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Oman's leading bank's Credit
Rating may be downgraded due to deteriorating Asset quality
Moodies Mood
Change: LONDON -Moody's Investors
Service said it had placed on review for possible downgrade the
D strength rating of National Bank of Oman (NBO). This action
does not affect NBO's Baa3/Prime-3 ratings for foreign currency
deposits, said a statement. Moody's action stems from NBO's worsening
financial position, particularly its extremely weak asset quality
and elevated provisioning requirements. Full
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