Indore-based businessman Manu Gupta and his Mexican colleagues had travelled to Hong Kong between January and February 2016, ostensibly on a tourist visit. But it has come to light since, that it was a business trip. According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), “Gupta was in communication and had…
In 2016, a group of men undertook a month-long journey from the Americas to Asia. Mexican nationals Jorge Ayon Peña, two others known as Francisco and Fernando embarked from Culiacán in Sinaloa to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Indore, Rajasthan, back to Tokyo, finally returning to Mexico on 21 February 2016.…
On 25 September 2018, three men were busy shopping in Kothari market in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Two were Indian nationals and the third a Mexican national. One Indian and the Mexican had had breakfast at the Hotel Marriott before the shopping trip. The trio visited five different shops until they…
The ICMR’s (Indian Council of Medical Research) tight deadline for completing human trials of India’s own COVID-19 vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech has run into controversy. And rightly so. Normally, a new drug or a vaccine is tested extensively on animals before it comes to human trials. The human trials…