Corex cough syrup banned in India

  The Indian government imposed a ban on codeine-based Corex cough syrups, as they posed a health risk, and soon after shares in the Indian unit of US based drugmaker Pfizer tumbled by 9 per cent.  Pfizer’s India unit said in a statement it had stopped selling its Corex cough syrup that contains codeine, a…

Snappy headline – but which paper is it?

This is included on the front page of a bestselling newspaper in UK yesterday.  This paper has a sister daily paper which also sells a lot of copies.  The Saturn Herald will leave you guessing.  Hope they don’t get sued though I am sure the “headline” is meant as a fun-poke and will not be…

Boom and bust of Kingfisher airlines

Vijay Mallya, 60 year old Indian businessman and politician who owned India’s biggest liquor company and a private jet, an Airbus, and launched Kingfisher an airline to match his style and flamboyance. Kingfisher went from boom to bust. Lalit Modi, their ownership of IPL teams and jet setting lifestyles. Mallya made his escape to London…