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researchers from UK, India & Qatar was published this month, suggests unapproved fixed-dose combination drugs should be withdrawn and no longer manufactured.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.
‘We all bear a collective responsibility to speak up and not be silent when we see things like the events of the last week,’ Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google, wrote on X.
As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.
The proposed project costing about Rs 3.25 lakh crore will entail procurement of 18 aircraft in fly away condition & the rest made in India with up to 60% indigenous content.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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