As per the statement by the Indian Navy, around 2386 kgs of hashish and 121 kgs of heroin were stored in different cargo holds and compartments onboard the suspected vessel.
Raxuter Chemicals & Athos Chemicals have been charged with criminal conspiracy. Part of probe also involved undercover agents posing as buyers, striking a deal with Raxuter founder.
Gaganpreet Randhawa is currently in custody and has been charged with numerous drug and firearms-related offences, a Royal Canadian Mountain Police statement said.
The apprehended persons were identified as Tinku Malakar & Sujit Deb from Tripura. This comes after 10,000 Yaba tablets worth Rs 1 cr were seized in Karimganj district Monday.
Four have been arrested including Delhi-based businessman who owned godown from where cops recovered most of the cocaine, and Mumbai resident who was here to 'collect consignment'.
Study by researchers from UK, India & Qatar was published this month, suggests unapproved fixed-dose combination drugs should be withdrawn and no longer manufactured.
A total of 344 such medicines were banned in 2018, and another 156, used for common conditions such as fever, allergies, hypertension, colds etc, earlier this month.
Three drugs given customs duty waiver this week are all by a single drugmaker, it has been pointed out. Oncologists say concession basket needs to be extended.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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